Albert Sàbat will continue to be the mainstay of the Bàsquet Girona dressing room and, in return, of the project at the LEB Or. This was announced yesterday by the club and the Llagostera base after reaching an agreement for another season. “I am very happy because I wanted to keep playing and the club also wanted me to keep going, everything has been very easy. In addition, I will be able to continue in Girona, my city “, explained the player.
Sàbat returned to Fontajau with Bàsquet Girona in the 2019-20 season. Coming from the ACB with the Monbus Obradoiro, the lobster player immediately took on the leadership role to lead the team towards promotion to LEB Or. This year, the people of Girona have ensured their permanence and have kept alive even the options of dreaming of the play-offs. After defining the LEB Gold roadmap for next season, Sàbat acknowledged that “it is still early to talk about next year, but the club has grown and I am sure it will go one step further” . Given that he has no shortage of experience, the baseman, who will turn 36 in the summer, said that “being the second year in the category, we must try to keep growing despite the difficulty we know that there is”. His desire is to “keep the block to continue growing in this regard.”
The LEB Gold is one of the best known categories for the captain. Sàbat completed his first steps in the lower categories of CB Llagostera and Sant Josep Girona. In the 2002-03 season he started his senior career at Adepaf Figueres, where he competed in EBA. That same year he made his debut at the ACB with the Casademont Girona shirt thanks to his links with the team from Figueres and, after two seasons, he became a fixture for the Girona team, with 21 ACB games on his shoulders. last year.
From there, Sàbat made a career in the LEB Or with nine experiences in different teams: Plus Pujol Lleida, Tenerife Rural, CB Vic, Sant Josep Girona, CB Canarias, Lucentum Alicante and Ford Burgos. There were also two in the Endesa League with Badalona Youth and Monbus Obradoiro; and two more at LEB Plata with Géstiberica Vigo and Akasvayu Vic in a total of 14 seasons.
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