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Basketball coach Jackson Charles returns as this country's head coach for the upcoming FIBA 3x3 AmeriCup in Puerto Rico next month.

Charles is the coach behind T&T's historic Pan American Games 3x3 basketball bronze medal team in Chile last year.

The FIBA 3x3 AmeriCup is a continental competition and an essential qualifier for the Basketball World Cup and the Olympics.
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00:00Jingling, jingling, that's the school bell to ring as East zone champs Hillview College
00:04They've made the trip to Shore Park, Tobago to face the Tobago champions
00:08Scarborough Secondary in the SSFL Big Five action and Hillview would draw first
00:13blood with a missile of a goal but the Tobagoonians were not daunted as they
00:17responded firstly off the corner and then they went ahead from another set
00:23piece to take a 2-1 lead
00:30Hillview however would show grit and some superb outside shooting once more
00:35as they held on for a dramatic two-all draw. What a goal!
00:43Oh he's back like the Terminator as basketball coach Jackson Charles returns
00:49as this country's head coach for the upcoming FIBA 3x3 AmeriCup in Puerto
00:54Rico next month. Charles is the coach behind TNT's historic Pan American Games
00:593x3 basketball bronze medal team in Chile last year. The FIBA 3x3
01:04AmeriCup is a continental competition and an important qualifier for the
01:08Basketball World Cup and the Olympics.
01:12Being realigned with the national program
01:14in this case the 3x3 main team is a great honor to ourselves here in Tobago
01:18I think one of the things that makes the honor so great is that you are
01:25basically seen by your peers and by the people in your sport as a person who
01:31they feel they can entrust with carrying the team forward in terms of the success
01:38and you know reliving that success by even going further than the team has
01:43ever gone. The objective I would say the first thing is to try and get a very
01:50good support system so the supporting staff that I would try to get through
02:00the help of the Federation would be the first priority of business.
02:05And the TNT basketball coach believes
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