Four years later, Asobal recovered its end-of-season Gala on Monday to reward the outstanding players of the 22-23 campaign, honor retiring historical figures, and expose their goals, although the most important one remains in the air: the approval of its statutes as a professional league, frozen by the elections.
Sportingly, the Barça goalkeeper, Gonzalo Pérez, was the star; voted MVP of the season for the second timewith Lombardi (Guadalajara), fabregas (Barca), antonio martinez (Ademar), antonio garcia (Granollers), john castro (Ademar) and nazaré (Cuenca) in the ideal team, plus the defender Petrus (Barça), the revelation Farouk (Granollers) and Anthony Rama (Granollers) as coach. The man from Toledo, captain of the Barcelona fans, equals two goalkeepers, Saric and Sterbik, who until now were the only ones recognized twice each as the best player of the season.
Gonzalo highlighted Granollers “who has united Spanish handball, because we have all followed their stupendous Final Four and we wanted their victory,” said the goalkeeper, who is now preparing for the other European final, the Champions League, with the Catalans. Actually, the success of the Valles team has been more due to its great international competition with the runner-up in the European League, than for third place in the League. However, his sporting feat gives prestige to a competition reviled by Barça’s dominance, and with his good campaign he relaunched the middle class of the national competition.
In the withdrawals, three pivots that have passed through Bidasoa stand out: Julen Aginagalde, Ugarte and Serranoand the extremes Moya, Nicevic (only foreigner) and crashthe captain of the Anaitasuna who was the only one who was not at the Gala. Roberto Rodriguez (Benidorm) received the award for the best save, the left-back from Cuenca, the Portuguese Nazaré, finished as top scorer (190), and winger Genilson from Cangas (he was missing because he is preparing for the promotion) he won the prize for the most aesthetic goal of the season.