Alejandro González, until last season second coach of Alimerka Oviedo Basketball, leaves the club to join Natxo Lezkano in Andorra, also LEB Oro. The Oviedo player has been linked to the Carbayón club for 15 years, in which he has been a player and coach in academy teams until he ended up joining the first team, being an assistant to Natxo Lezkano last year.
The departure of Alejandro González has been well received by the club, which considers him a coach trained at home and who will gain in knowledge and experience by embarking on a new stage in one of the great contenders for promotion to the ACB and together with a coach from reference in the category: “We are very proud of ‘Jandrín”s career for his dedication and excellence in day-to-day work both with the youth team and the first team and we are sure that he will face the next challenges that come his way with the same integrity and determination that he has shown with us”.
The player wrote an emotional farewell letter in which he wanted to thank Fernando García, a member of the board of directors, for opening “the doors of the club” to him and giving him “the opportunity to be a coach.” “I thank Agustín Munárriz (club coach) for his advice and support in those early years when everything was new to me and Paula (Bergel, head of the youth academy) and Pablo (Rodríguez, from the schools) for looking for a way to be able to coordinate everything and make it work,” he added. He also thanked “Héctor Galán for his confidence and his way of working and Fernando Villabella for his love and encouragement all these years”.
The letter includes the following:
To the entire OCB family:
It is not easy to summarize everything I would like to tell you in a few words, but I am going to try it in the following lines.
I came to the Oviedo Basketball Club when I was 15 years old and now at 30 I have to say goodbye to him. I’ve spent half my life at Pumarín and I’m very proud of my entire journey at the club: From youth work to the last seven years in the first team. Thus, I have been burning stages thanks to the trust that has been placed in me all this time. However, I think the time has come to enter another stage outside the warmth of what will always be my home.
I feel very grateful to everyone. To Ferdi for opening the doors of the club to me and giving me the opportunity to be a coach, to Agustín Munárriz for his advice and support in those early years when everything was new to me, and to Paula and Pablo for finding a way to coordinate everything and make it work. Also and above all to the human groups that I have trained and from whom I have learned from childhood to the first team because without them I would not be here. Lastly, and especially to Héctor Galán for his trust and the way he works and to Fernando Villabella for his love and encouragement, allowing me to grow all these years.
Right now I can’t say goodbye because you never really leave one hundred percent of your house. I only hope that, following the example of Alimerka or the City Council of Oviedo, more and more support for the OCB accumulates. Beyond the sporting results achieved on the track, whoever supports this club is sure to be supporting a family with personal values above the category they occupy.
See you soon!, #yosoyOCB
