Jorge Garbajosa: “It is difficult to imagine a bet

“It's hard to imagine a better year in 2019 than the one we've had, honestly.” This is how the President of the Spanish Basketball Federation, Jorge Garbajosa, summarizes a magical year for Spanish basketball. A 2019 to remember that was crowned with, among other successes, the World Gold in China achieved by the Men's National Team and the Gold in Eurobasket 2019 by the Women's Team. “A year later we can say that practically our letter to the Three Wise Men has been fulfilled in its entirety ,” he asserts. “There was a plan made with the maximum ambition and, furthermore, a plan made in 2017 coinciding with the start of the Windows in the famous Benahavís summer,” he recalls about the beginnings of a cycle that ended up touching the sky in Beijing last year. September 15, 2019.

Garbajosa remembers the experiences of that World Cup that is now part of the golden history of Spanish basketball: “ They were clear that the team had to grow during the championship. We are always clear Email Data about it, but in this case even more so. It had been a difficult concentration, with physical problems for some key players. And the team was not destabilized by everything around it. And when the key moments arrived, they gave, as we like to say, the blow of the ax or the blow on the table . ” The National Team went from less to more until winning the second World Cup in its history: “Djordjevic said it very well, right? I don't trust you. I have already seen this movie. We love watching this movie every year.” A major success of which all the players who helped achieve World Cup qualification during the Windows are part and soul. This is how the President explains it: “That path that even some have built, entering and leaving the concentrations.

Or Quino Colom, who started in Benahavís and ended up winning the World Cup. Quino embodies a little bit of everyone's dream. “All of these players have been world champions.” In a difficult summer with the absences of players like Alba Torrens or Sancho Lyttle, the Women's National Team overcame to revalidate their status as European champions. A feat not achieved since the USSR. “Even so, they themselves are the ones who talk to you about gold. They talk about aspiring to gold. The ones that talk to you, about not giving up anything ,” Garbajosa emphasizes. “We talk about heroines, we talk about overcoming their own limits. I can't think of another adjective. Which one comes to mind? It's not an adjective, but I can think of a word that is thank you. Thank you for everything you are doing ,” she points out. “These training medals have tremendous meaning for us. They are the consequence of a job. From a job by the Federation's technicians, yes.

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