BadalonaA youth from Badalona who wants to consolidate their third position will visit the Real Madrid track this Sunday (6.30pm, #Vamos). “People said that Madrid was coming off a bad month, and they played a brutal series in the Euroleague, eliminating a great team like Maccabi. We have to be prepared because they will all come out because we are playing the second position. We have to go to Madrid to compete and try to take the victory “, says Joel Parra, who this week was awarded as the best youngster in the Endesa League.
“I am very happy, very proud and very grateful to my teammates, the coaching staff, the club, who bet on me, my family and all the coaches who are part of grassroots basketball. When I arrived at the Peña at the age of five, I only thought about playing and having fun, enjoying myself with my classmates. It is possible that everything came very quickly, but I am very happy and proud to receive the award at the club that has seen me grow as a player and as a person “, says the green-and-black team winger. Joel Parra’s season is being very good and, in addition, he has connected very well with a fan who has him as one of his great references. “It’s something I didn’t expect. I’m like that on and off the court, and people like to see me play makes me even more proud,” he admits.
“The team is well aware of the difficulty of going to Madrid. We will go there with the ambition of being the best team possible in the face of the challenge we have. It is important to keep adding victories, and it is true that we are in the final stretch and already classified by the play-off, so I hope that the team will play trying to be the best possible Youth and give their best “, argues Carles Duran. Vladimir Brodzianksy will be the coach. Real Madrid has returned to its best game and is already qualified to play the final four of the Euroleague. “To win at Madrid you have to do a lot of good things. It’s a team with a lot of pace, a great team that dominates through the rebound and can punish us from the three-point line. We have to defend a lot 1×1 well, be good on the rebound and above all play very well in basketball.We have to be the best Supporters Club to win on the field of a rival who has just qualified for the final four of the Euroleague and that he will play with a very good push “, says the coach of the Penya.
Barça, meanwhile, host Hereda San Pablo Burgos with the desire to forget the bad game on Friday in Munich as soon as possible. The club will commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Palau Blaugrana and has prepared a series of very special events to celebrate this anniversary. The doors of the pavilion will open at 11 a.m. to give all fans time to sit in their hometown from 12 noon, at which time the celebrations will begin.
On the floor of the Palace, one will be projected mapping spectacular to review the history of Barça basketball. Afterwards, the team’s presentation will include special effects never seen before at the Palau Blaugrana. At the break of the match there will be a tribute to different Barça legends, visually accompanied by images in the mapping projected. In the meantime, the names of all the basketball players who have passed through the Palace during these 50 years will also appear.
Effort without reward from Baxi Manresa (94-83)
A Baxi Manresa still without a base has lost to Lenovo Tenerife (94-83) and has already suffered three consecutive defeats in the Endesa League. Despite the casualties, the Bages team has competed very well on one of the most difficult tracks. Chima Moneke has 25 points, 12 rebounds and 4 assists.
