FIBA International Christmas Tournament
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<entity_0> also known as the Christmas Tournament (Torneo de Navidad) was a <entity_2> international friendly competition, at the club level (and in some editions with national teams), organized by FIBA at its first decades through the Commission of International Organizations under the hand of Raimundo Saporta, club director and president of the International Commission of the International Basketball Federation (FIBA), and with the authorization and support of R. William Jones, its general secretary, so it had the officiality of FIBA in its first decades of life, being also the starting point of the FIBA <entity_1>, whose first edition appears in the history of this competition. The competition was held for the first time in January 1966 with the name of FIBA <entity_1> on the occasion of the inauguration of the new <entity_4> venue of Real Madrid, the Pabellón de la Ciudad Deportiva (later called the "Raimundo Saporta Pavilion"). This edition also served as the starting point of the FIBA <entity_1> (later known as the FIBA Club World Cup), whose results were valid for the first edition of the aforementioned competition of the highest <entity_4> organism, and whose first trophy It was the same as the one used in the <entity_0> until 1980. In fact it was the starting point of the FIBA <entity_1>, and whose second edition of this <entity_3> (called Copa Latina in that edition), already breaking away from the Intercontinental, continued under the organization and official FIBA in everything concerning the delivery of trophies and the FIBA emblem on the podium, as well as FIBA referees, but the fact that its last decades were largely managed by Real Madrid, because it gave the competition, for all intents and purposes, a friendly character, despite its weight, importance and notoriety, but above all due to the fact that its participants acceded by invitation (although in the FIBA Club World Cup as well).
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