En the history of Spanish basketball, there was a before and after Amaya Valdemoro. Madrid broke into the bsket to eat it and ended up devouring itbecoming the best player who has given this pass. Amaya built, for months of two decades, a career that has ended up being legendary. She, in fact, is a legend for everything she achieved, no one has won more than her in Spanish women’s basketball, and in reality, for how much his legacy means. And that is why she is creditor of this award granted by the FEB and Marca and that he will receive at the III Spanish Basketball Gala which is celebrated in Gran Canaria.
After debuting in the Spanish League with Dorna Godella in 1992undertook the American adventure six years later to play in the Houston Comets. So play in the WNBA being Spanish it was reserved for the pioneers, Amaya was, and for the brave, and Amaya overflowed bravely. And there he triumphed along with other legends like Cynthia Cooper, Sheryl Swoopes, y Tina Thompson to establish hegemony in the League and win three rings in a row (The Comets had already won in 1997).
Reference for the new generations
Valdemoro began to travel along a difficult road that she herself was in charge of paving until get women’s basketball to find the space it deserved. It endorsed the immense work of its predecessors and set the pace for his successorYes, it initiated a change in women’s basketball that has led to one of the most successful specialties in our sport today. She was and still is the benchmark for some of the best players of the last years.
Amaya Valdemoro was a player of enormous talent. Compulsive scorer and fierce defender, read the game like nobody else. But above all was the leader in the team that wasespecially in the selection.
the idyll between Amaya and the Spanish team was born in 1993, when he debuted at the age of 17, and grew until he became something gigantic to leave behind s, 258 caps, six medals and the mirror in which many girls who start look at themselves over and over again.
The most successful Spanish basketball player
Throughout his career, Amaya has become the most decorated basketball player from Spain. to their three WNBA rings and six medals with Spain (one gold, one silver and four bronze), join a Euroleague, League titles in Spain (8) and Russia (1), was Eurobasket MVP, top scorer in Eurobasket 2005 and the 2010 World Cup, nine Cups, highest scorer in the history of the Endesa Women’s League and holds the record for most points (49) and highest rating (61), in a League match in Spain. And there is much more, because Amaya Valdemoro will always remain as an eternal legend.
