L’Alqueria del Basket and La Fonteta say goodbye to the year having become the great motors of basketball in Spain throughout 2020, in a year marked by the COVID-19 pandemic that forced the suspension or postponement of some competitions during the most months hard before summer. The taronja club, after the initial strict confinement, was the first to take a step forward to regain relative normality and resume the training of its first teams before the return of the competitions, many of which were also hosted at their facilities.
The so-called “health bubble” that they created around both allowed to host the new Final Phase of the Endesa League in collaboration with the ACB, with eight teams fighting for a title that was ultimately won by Baskonia, while Valencia Basket lost in semifinals.
But apart from this great unprecedented event, València and Valencia Basket also hosted the FIBA windows of the Spanish team, which played two games against Israel and Romania, the recent Adidas Next Generation at the L’Alqueria del Basket facilities with eight of the best teams in Europe represented with their best homegrown players. And shortly it will also host the dispute of not one, but two groups of the initial phase of the FIBA Eurocup Women, including the one involving the first Valencia Basket women’s team.
In addition, those of Rubén Burgos have been able to enjoy the support of a small percentage of their followers in the stands as long as the regulations and the health context have allowed it, something that those of Jaume Ponsarnau also enjoyed in the Euroleague, when they had the support than 400 supporters in some of their matches at the start of the season, always with the strict security measures inherited from last season’s Final Phase of the ACB.
On the other hand, during the pandemic, the professionals of L’Alqueria del Basket used new technologies to reach not only the pupils of the School and the taronja quarry, but to keep all the players of the Valencian Community clubs active who would like to benefit from your distance learning.
The training sessions at L’Alqueria del Basket were also resumed in person from the beginning of the preseason, so that the Taronja players were progressing and working with the regional competitions about to start again.
Historic Minicopa
The major grassroots basketball events, such as the Spanish club championships, had to be suspended, but the year 2020 leaves us the first title of the LF Endesa Minicopa that the women’s children’s team achieved in Salamanca after beating CityLift Girona in the final. by 36-75. One more achievement of Valencia Basket.
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