The Fourth Basketball Club starts a new season a EBA with relief on the bench and many new faces on the court. After five seasons under the orders of Carlos Ribotthe Quartenc project will submit to the knowledge ofAngel Aranda, a technician with a long career. The of Pineda de Mar has experience in national categories, but has also tried his luck abroad in countries like France, Swiss, Netherlands o Luxemburg. His last adventure was precisely at the head of a Luxembourg team, the Kordall Steelers, the last campaign 21/22. Aranda’s teams tend to be defensive and well prepared physically, and although he assures that he wants to implement his particular stamp, he also wants to be consistent with the line of work that Carles Ribot, the previous coach, had been carrying out: ” I know and have spoken with Carles and I think we have a similar philosophy. I like to defend and I like to run. Now, even if we share a philosophy or part of it, when it comes to embodying it on the track, everyone has their own way».
Apart from the addition to the bench, CB Quart has also had work in the offices when making the staff. In the loss folder, there is the retirement from semi-professional basketball of four key players (Pau Vila, Jordi Bataller, Xavi Costa and the captain Mois Martorell) in addition to the output ofWork Behindin search of new experiences, andAdrian Artachowho was injured for a large part of the season and could not ensure regularity on the court.
From the template of the last campaign they follow Eduardo Ramos, Joseph Gascon, Marc Capell i Arnau Palolin addition toEric Parareda i Marc Serrat, who had a filial file, but were in the dynamics of the first team. To all this, the additions of the wings are added Taffa Fatty i Arnau DeJaime; of the escort Marti Sosa and bases David Manzanares i Javier Perez. With this squad, the club still has a free agent, but it considers the door of arrivals closed and will bet on giving the chance to a player from the base. After the work done at the Aranda offices, he is excited: “I’m very happy. We really want to get started, come August 19th and see how far we can go. There is a lot of enthusiasm, a lot of desire, a lot of seriousness and a lot of professionalism.”
Once the squad is made, the main objective of the season for Àngel Aranda is to compete: “From the first day of the season, the objective is to compete, in every training session and in every game.” The coach assures that competitiveness is an identity characteristic of his teams, and that they will do it “without setting limits, from the first match to the last”. “I prepare the team from the first day under this slogan: we will train to compete, we will train competing and we will play competing. I don’t like to set limits. From this, the results will tell us what our place is”, sentence.
The first game of the CB Quart season is next September 4 against the CB Vic to Catalan Leaguewhere he shares a group with the Baseball Basketball and the Basketball Girona B. In the EBA League, the quarters will be released on October 1 against the Mataró-Homsand they will release the Municipal Pavilion on Saturday 8 at 18:15 against the Castelldefels.
