After nearly 200 days have passed since the last official match played by the team (on March 13 against Quimsa as a visitor for the second game of the BCLA semifinals), the Cyclone placed first and resumed activity after having been more than 6 months without doing group training.
During all that time, the players carried out work sessions from their homes with the supervision of both the technical and medical staff of the Azlugrana club. However, four of the seven players who are part of the team and have a larger record made the decision to go to other countries to be part of other teams and not lose so much shooting ahead of the resumption of basketball in Argentina: this This is the case of Nicolás “Penka” Aguirre (Fuerza Regia from Mexico), Facundo Piñero (Aguacateros from Mexico), Agustín Cáffaro (Urupán from Uruguay) and Kevin Hernández (Dorados, also from the Aztec country). The remaining three (José Vildoza, Jonathan Maldonado and Nicolás Romano), for their part, were training from their homes from the mandatory isolation decree as a result of the pandemic in March until today.
Regarding the squad that began the 2019/20 season in September of last year, Boedo’s men have suffered the loss of one of their top references, such as Marcos Mata (he went to Saga Ballooners in Japan); as well as that of the escort Luciano González (Flamengo from Brazil), Esteban Batista (Hebraica Macabi from Uruguay) and Justin Williams (Aguada from Uruguay).
One of the most important questions to be resolved by manager Pablo D’Angelo and the rest of the Azlugrana board of directors is to see if Dar Tucker will finally renew or not a contract with the club for next season, since his link with the institution it ended in July this year. The Cyclone has the possibility of adding another larger tile more than the 8 allowed there, as well as a U23; consulted on this issue, the brand new coach
Silvio Santander said that he hopes to have Tucker for next season and that the Jordanian is the right player to complete that last remaining place.
Taking into account all this panorama, San Lorenzo will have the following players available for the return of training: three of its seven older players (the aforementioned Vildoza, Romano and Maldonado), added to seven U23 (Máximo Fjellerup, Hernán Losito, Christian Bihurriet, Matías Morera, Cristian Cardo, Lisandro Fernández and Leandro Cerminato); and three U19s (Ian Cerino, Mariano Gago and Facundo Rútemberg).
Probably, all of them will be the ones who are part of the Cuervo squad when the Cyclone must face its first commitments in the bubbles of Córdoba and Carlos Paz of the National League, where it will return to activity at the beginning of the 2020/21 season. Players who are participating in foreign leagues such as Mexico and Uruguay are stipulated to arrive in the country in early December.
