the curtain of a new edition of the Endesa League, number 67they will raise it the current champion, the real Madridand a new club in the ACB, which is experiencing days of maximum enthusiasm and which returns elite basketball to Girona tonight (21:00, #Vamos) 14 years after Akasvayu had to stop competing due to financial problems. And he does, like then, with Marc Gasol37 years old and 2.15 m, on the track, one of the best Spanish players ever. Reference pivot and president of his own club that he created from scratch in 2014 as Club Escola Bàsquet Marc Gasol and that in 2017 was renamed Bàsquet Girona. Initially he started with a formative character, but he has been growing in ambition until Marc landed on the field last year to lead the rise in the LEB Oro. He wants to give back to the city everything that it gave him between 2006 and 2008key years in his career, when he exploded as a player to make the leap to the NBA and later win the championship ring.
There was a formality to be resolved before the premiere, that the ACB allowed combining both positionssince the regulation declared “The condition of administrator or director of a club is incompatible with the exercise of any of the functions subject to registration in the competitions”. A rule that someone pulled out of the hat many years ago so that a well-known coachat that time also with a managerial position in the club, could not participate in the assemblies. Now the League has had to annul, with the agreement of the clubs, the article that prevented the exercise of both functions. Registration was completed on Monday, so Marc is ready to return to the ACB 14 years after his departureat the end of the 2007-08 academic year, in which he finished as MVP and beat Sabonis records.
The Marc of now will bring experience to a young squad within a project in which they work with the illusion of leaving their mark. At the head of the team, another national basketball legend: Aito Garcia Reneseswho will turn 76 on December 20 and celebrate half a century on the bench with more than 2,000 games directed. His is also a resounding return, because he returns to the ACB six years later. Gone are his four campaigns in Germany, at Alba Berlin, and two more, including the last one, in which he did not train at the first level. Fontajau is ready to enjoy a great event today.
“Our options against Madrid are small, but they are there. favorites don’t always win”, Aíto said in the preview. The expectation is maximum in Girona, with the 4,000 season tickets available sold in 24 hours and the rest of the seats sold out for the premiere, in which Madrid, current champion of the League and the Super Cup, arrives very aware of the great atmosphere that it will find : “Marc Gasol and Aíto are two legends. They will be waiting for us to give a joy to their fans —says Chus Mateo—. Marc is an NBA player who has wanted to come and play in the League. We expect a difficult rival, who has quality and players with a name like Colom and Franch”. Madrid returned from Seville on Monday with the Super Cup under their arms, today they are in Girona. start the carousel.
Hugo González travels for Rudy, operated, and for Hanga
the youth squad Hugo Gonzalez16-year-old forward and runner-up in the world with Spain U-17 in July, has traveled with Real Madrid to Gironaonce the club has communicated that Hanga suffers a muscle injury in the thigh of his left leg (biceps femoris) and it will be low for a few weeks, in principle less than a month. And also that Rudy has undergone arthroscopy on the wrist of his right hand after being diagnosed with an injury to the joint disc. The captain of the National Team will have to spend more than a month off the pitch.
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