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Before the final of Liga del Oviedo Badminton: The enemy was inside

Quique Peñalver is right now number two in Spanish badminton, a short distance from Pablo Abián. But when he was just a kid, around the age of thirteen, he was recruited by the CBO to perfect himself at the El Cristo High Performance Center. “The technicians saw the potential it had and spoke with the parents to offer them that possibility. In the end, we decided that he should also go to the club so that it could arrive where the Technification Center did not, be a little more on top of it “ explains the technical director of Badminton Oviedo, César González.

The relationship with Quique’s little sister, Sara, also began very early. “She was taking her first steps in badminton and we saw that she was pointing manners, she was left-handed, very athletic, she was good at it,” González recalls. So the little one of the Peñalver, natives of Motejón (Toledo), also joined the improvement training in Oviedo. After having grown and evolved in Asturias, Quique and Sara were present in the league title that the CBO conquered, achieved in 2015.

Shortly after that great success, Quique Peñalver left El Cristo to move to the High Performance Center in Madrid. A few years later Sara continued on her way, although she left high-level badminton and now limits herself to playing the league with the Ibizan team.

Against the Peñalver and against the pressure that the Ibiza public may exert, the CBO will have to fight in the decisive clash for the league title, which will take place tomorrow at 5.30 pm at the Pavelló Insular Blancadona, with broadcast by LaLiga Sports. “I see them as favorites, but they are even,” says César González, prudent despite the fact that the Oviedo do not know the defeat in what has elapsed of the league championship. The club has decided that the squad will travel on Friday to have the whole day on Saturday to rest before one of the most important days in its history.

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