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Laia Palau, out of the first list of Miguel Méndez




The new coach of the women’s basketball team, Miguel Méndez, has offered his first list in which the veteran Laia Palau is not. The until now captain thus misses the first break of qualifying matches for the Eurobsaket 2023. The absence of Cristina Ouviña also stands out, in this case due to injury.

Méndez, who opens in office replacing the dismissed Lucas Mondelo, has not included in its call to Palau, the player who has worn the Spanish national team shirt the most times (314), so Silvia Domínguez will be the new captain of the team in the next matches against Hungary and Romania.

Miguel Méndez: “I don’t have blacklists”

The call is completed Maite Cazorla, Leticia Romero, Leonor Rodríguez, Queralt Casas, María Conde, Laura Quevedo, Alba Torrens, Paula Ginzo, Irati Etxarri, Laura Gil and Raquel Carrera. These 12 are joined by Georgina Bahí and Ángela Salvadores, who will attend as guests and work during the days of the concentration.

Spain will begin its path to the next Eurobasket on Thursday, November 11, when it will visit the Hungarian national team in Szekszard, and will continue it on Sunday, the 14th, when it will host Romania in Almería. Both games will be played at 6:00 p.m. and They will be broadcast on Teledeporte and RTVE Play.

Of them will be classified 14 teams: the 10 winners of each group and the 4 best seconds. In addition to this window, another will be held from November 24 to 27, 2022 and the last one from February 24 to 27, 2023.

The Spanish team is framed in the Group C together with Romania, Hungary and Iceland. Another 37 teams, divided into 10 groups, will fight to qualify for the European Championship to be held in 2023 in Slovenia and Israel.

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