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Basketball.-The Spanish team goes into ‘Europe Mode’ with a “very different and very stimulating team” – Publimetro México

MADRID, 2 (EUROPA PRESS)

The national coach, Sergio Scariolo, explained in the presentation held at the Daoiz y Velarde Municipal Sports Center in Madrid that “now is the time not to think about goals”, especially those set by those who “observe from the outside”.

“We have to focus on coming back, doing what we’ve done many times, making a team and having a clear idea of ​​how to be good teammates, that’s the starting point, then we’ll see where the competition puts us,” he said. Italian.

For the coach, the list of 22 players mentioned is a “very different, very interesting, very fun and very stimulating team”, and he positively assessed that the federation has been “several years in a very homogeneous and uniform way” in lower categories, which “already noted” in ranked ‘windows’. “Now it’s about putting it at a much higher level of competition and having the confidence and the ability to work to be able to raise the bar a little bit more,” he added.

For his part, the captain of the national team, Rudy Fernández, was “grateful to the national team”, in which he has been from 2004 to the present time in which he can be “with these future and present players”. “My legs won’t be able to help me as much as in 2004, but of course the desire and enthusiasm with these players are going to raise the flag of this country,” he assured.

The Real Madrid player valued the “responsibility” of having to transmit values ​​to the new internationals. “They are almost two decades of many medals and trophies that seemed impossible and are won, and that must be instilled in the new people who enter,” he said.

“This year there are many new players. We don’t have to put the pressure of everything that has happened before because it would be a mistake. This is a new year, a new goal, it’s a very new team, we have to rebuild”, commented the Balearic Islands, which does not put a ceiling on the competition.

Sergio Llull also participated in the presentation ceremony, recognizing that it is “a privilege” to be an international “one more summer”. “I see a lot of desire, a lot of enthusiasm and a lot of commitment to prepare ourselves well, fight day by day, take care of ourselves and do things well when the friendly matches come and then the important ones,” the point guard remarked.

With the new players, he did not hide the responsibility that veterans have in this call. “We behave quite well, we try to make everyone feel comfortable, transmit those values ​​that people like Felipe Reyes, Navarro or the Gasol brothers transmitted to us,” he said.

GARBAJOSA: “WE CAN ENSURE THAT WE ARE GOING TO COME BACK WITH OUR HEAD HIGH”

In addition, forward Juancho Hernangómez, who returns to the national team after his absence from the Olympic Games, does not feel “pressure”, but he does feel “responsibility”. “Any summer that can come to defend these colors, I will do it. The key to winning the World Cup was that all the members of the team knew what their role was and they went ‘to the death’, that’s how a champion team is made,” said the new Toronto Raptors player.

His brother Willy declared that when called up with the national team “you always have to aspire to the best”, but that “you also have to be humble”. “The goal has to be to take Spain to the top and the competition will put us in our place,” he admitted.

The president of the Spanish Basketball Federation, Jorge Garbajosa, stressed that this Eurobasket comes after “a start to the summer with the lower categories of the national team that could not be more exciting”. “The team that is going to represent our country in the Eurobasket has a base of players that have represented us in the windows,” he stressed, emphasizing that it is part of a long-term plan.

“This is the selection of illusion, of commitment, it cannot be guaranteed that we are going to win, but we are going to return with our heads held high. Surely on September 18 we will be super proud of another year of your work,” he concluded. .

Finally, Sofía Miranda, delegate councilor of the Sports Area of ​​the Madrid City Council, stressed that “in a world in which society and humanity are increasingly divided and confronted, where insane competition reigns”, the national team it represents “the values ​​of companionship, family, empathy, help”.

“Transmit those values ​​to you, behave as if you were brothers. Please, I ask you to enjoy yourself, because when you enjoy yourself, you make us vibrate, the results will come”, said Miranda, who thanked the FEB for “the trust” in the capital to house the first part of this preparation.

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