Madrid, Jun 23 (EFE) .- The Spanish coach José Ramón `Jota´ Cuspinera renewed with Movistar Estudiantes for the next campaign, in which the Madrid team will be in LEB Oro, and declared that the team has to” return to ACB ” informed the entity through a statement.
The Basque coach took charge of the student team in February of this year after the dismissal of Javier Zamora from Madrid, but did not manage to remain in the Endesa League.
“We have to go back to ACB and do it this season, so there is a great demand. We know that the journey will not be easy, the LEB Oro is a very competitive league where the last teams that have come down and up have done so sweating ink, “said Cuspinera in relation to expectations for next season.
“I hope, I trust, that we are able to carry the challenge forward. It is what we have proposed and that is why I have decided to bet on the club that bet on me,” he added.
Regarding the renewal process, Cuspinera assured that “the agreement was almost closed from the beginning” and that he did not hesitate to renew: “I had no doubts when they raised it with me. From the beginning I told them that I would be delighted to continue with the project if they they were convinced that I was the person to follow him. “
The coach, who has four years of experience on the ACB benches as head coach of Baloncesto Fuenlabrada and Basket Zaragoza 2002, acknowledges that the club’s decision surprised him: “It is not usual for the coach who at a given moment descends with the team to have the opportunity to try to bring it back up. That shows that there is a confidence from the people behind it. “
Regarding the plans for next season, the one who was also a coach of the lower categories of Estudiantes and assistant to Pepu Hernández in the senior team, acknowledged that “it will be very different from the ACB” and confessed to expecting a league in which the The team will have to “constantly learn” and “take steps forward.”
“The story is that we have to combine the cheerful basketball of counterattack, of defending – much better than what we have done this year – with the joy of the game and that the players have options to develop,” he said.
The coach of the collegiate team spoke about the young players in the squad: “There will be young people and we will bet on them, but the goal is to move up. We hope they can be the main protagonists of the whole film, but if they weren’t, we have to go with patience and having clear that the objective is to ascend “.
COVID-19 played a fundamental role in last season: “There has already been a bit of an audience in the ACB play-offs and hopefully this season we can enjoy full halls. Professional sport is meaningless without the audience. We are just starting out. to see the light at the end of the tunnel, “he concluded.
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