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Atmosphere, warmth and full of illustrious people in Fontajau: from Sada to Middleton

Girona once again experienced a day of suffocating heat, which in Fontajau, both inside and outside, seemed to have multiplied by a thousand. Crowded with more than 5,000 people (a thousand long, from Lleida, who also put their color note in the stands), the queues at the bar to buy a drink and the bays were the order of the day. Meanwhile, in the Fan Zone for many hours you could not be directly there because of the heat, although from six in the afternoon, as the time of Lleida-Girona approached, it was encouraged.

While Estudiantes-Palencia were playing inside Fontajau, outside the fans of the two Catalan teams that were to be beaten a few hours later were competing loudly. The Lleida bus arrived first, acclaimed by its people. A little later, Girona, also received passionately by the local parish, although officially in the match competed as a visitor.

No one wanted to miss it, not even the most illustrious. And yesterday Fontajau was a pole of attraction for basketball people. Former Akasvayu player Víctor Sada, historic Darryl Middleton, coaches such as Trifon Poch, Aito García Reneses and Pedro Martínez, as well as Pau Gasol and the president of the Federation Jorge Garbajosa … and the list is not there. ends here because Jordi Trias, Gerard Darnés, Laia Flores and Julia Reisingerova, so far members of Uni and from next year rivals because the Czech has left for Salamanca, and the players of the Youth Joel Parra and Pep Busquets (the latter, ex-Girona for part of last year at LEB Or).

And today he will have left again. The most important thing that Bàsquet Girona will have played since its creation in 2014. Only five years ago, the senior made his EBA league debut. It is now 40 minutes from the ACB. The highest category of Spanish men’s basketball that Girona has not tasted for 14 years despite having played 20 seasons in a row and being the fifteenth place with more games.

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