It is not common for these things to happen, although the fact that both are from the same province and continue to live there, favored the chance meeting between the leading scorers of the two highest categories of Argentine basketball: Pichi Campana and Matías Tomatis.
Campana, legend of the National League, commands the table with a figure that seems unattainable for the rest of time: 17359 points in 785 games, during 19 seasons. Seven times champion, 6 with Athens and 1 with GEPU. That amount, to get an idea, takes 1100 from the second (Julio Rodríguez) and almost 3000 from the third (Leo Gutiérrez). The closest in activity, but already close to retirement, is Paolo Qunteros, 7th with 11564, 6000 points less. Several whole leagues apart.
Tomatis, from Cordoba from San Francisco, leads with less margin, but also with stupendous numbers: 8178 points in 499 games, beating 3 known names: Donald Jones, Julián Olmedo and Mario Romay. Tomatis played for several clubs in the second division and is now a manager of the El Ceibo club in his hometown.
This is precisely why the meeting between the two took place last Friday, since Pichi went to San Francisco as president of the Córdoba Sports Agency to deliver subsidies to the city, and one of the beneficiaries was El Ceibo de Tomatis.
When they met, they chatted for a long time and memories began to emerge, since when Matías was a youth, he was part of the Athens team where Pichi was the top figure. In the 1991/92 season, where Atenas ended up being champion, both Tomatis and Casermeiro drove the most experienced ones crazy and made them mesh beautifully.
This is how Campana put it in a tweet: “How they made me disavow with Casermeiro !!! We had a lot of fun in practice; they doubled me and yelled it in my face and I did the same afterwards haha” Campana has fond memories of both of them, who later left and did not stay long in Athens.
Nice meeting with dear Matías Tomatis, we chat and remember old times in @Athena_official.
How they made me deny Casermeiro !!! ????????????
We had a lot of fun in practice; they doubled me and yelled it in my face and then I did the same to them haha pic.twitter.com/WcE7mo7avM– Héctor Pichi Campana (@pichi_oficial) October 5, 2020
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