The main figures of the Mar del Plata clubs presented Friday’s friendly that, in addition to the main match, will feature a meeting between “legends”.
Everything is ready for a new edition of the Mar del Plata classic between Peñarol and Quilmes. In the press conference room of the Islas Malvinas Sports Center on Tuesday, the presentation of the long-awaited friendly that will be held on Friday by the most important basketball teams in Mar del Plata and in which There will be surprises.
After several meetings and negotiations between the leaders of both clubs, municipal and security authorities, finally the Friday will be held a new friendly between Peñarol and Quilmes, two institutions that this year celebrate their centenary.
And to celebrate this historic event, not only will the friendly between the professional squads take place, but in the anteroom there will be two quarters of 10 minutes each of a meeting among “legends” an extra attraction for both fans, mainly for those who years ago saw them play and defend their clubs’ jerseys.
The The “legends” match will start at 8:30 p.m. and two quarters of 10 minutes will be developed. As to Penarolas far as he could tell what digital, the team will be led by Sergio Sheep Hernándezmulti-champion and former Argentine coach, while the squad is made up of Sebastián This Rodriguez, Sebastian Paco Festa, Lucas Picarelli, Héctor Haile, Carlos Romano, Leonardo Zanazzi, Fernando Rodríguez, Juan Manuel Locatelli, Jorge Banter Gonzalez, Nicholas Lauria, Nestor Pasetti, Mariano Franco, Stephen Terzoli, Adolph A house Perazzo and Theodore Michalopulos.
By the side of Quilmes, the coach could not be other than Oscar Egg Sánchez, while the team of former players is made up of Eduardo Dominé, Alejandro Maffia, Leandro Ginobili, Pablo Gil, Esteban De La Fuente, César Rodríguez, Diego Cavaco, Alejandro Allegretti, Claudio Chiappero, Marcelo Peralta and Pedro Calderón. In addition, as assistants will be Daniel Frola, Javier Bianchelli and Héctor Cholo Picón.
“This makes me very nostalgic. One is remembering what we have been through, more than 30 years ago, a true madness, “said the Egg Sánchez at the press conference this Tuesday and added, between laughs, regarding the meeting between historical players: “At the traffic lights they tell me ‘Look, you have to win huh’, but well, first we have to see how the boys are, ha”.
Once the match between “legends” is over – match in which it will be at stake the “Juan Pablo Sánchez” Cupin memory of former player Milrayitas and of Tricolor who died in February of last year at the age of 37 – will take place from 21.15 the meeting between the professional teams -with regulation time-, with which the Milrayitas will compete in the National League and the Tricolor will play the Argentine League. In addition, on Friday there will be another attraction since at halftime the game will take place a women’s 3×3 between both institutions.
The squad of the Santiago and Garay club is made up of Bruno Sansimoni, Joaquin Valinotti, Jose De Philippo, Thomas Monacchi (captain), Al Thornton, Amadou Sidibe, Augustin Caffaro, Pablo Alderete, Facundo Tolosa, Christian Cardo, Nicolas Franco, Joaquin Cabrera and Ignacio Bednarek with Adrián Capelli as coach.
For its part, the cast of Luro and Guido so far is made up of the bases Luis Junior blindness (captain) and Francisco Arraiz, the escorts Ezekiel Dupuy y Luciano Raverathe eaves Gregorio Support Eseverri y Genus Calcaterra, the youthful power forward Augustine Ecker and the pivots Jeronimo Barrionuevo y Thomas Nally. This team that Luis Fernández will lead still lacks the confirmation of a power forward.
As for the tickets to witness the new edition of the Mar del Plata classic, they are already on sale since the weekend. For fans of Quilmes will be until Thursday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the headquarters of the club (Avenida Luro al 3868), while the day of the game, Friday 30, tickets will be sold at the headquarters from 10 to 13 and in the Sports center from 19.
For its part, for the swollen Milrayitas tickets will be sold until Thursday from 16 to 20 and the day of the game, 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. at the clubhouse (Garay at 2524). In the sports center They will also sell from 19.
The last confrontation that one of the most important basketball classics in the country had was three years ago, and it was also in a friendly in the preview of the 2019-20 season, a calendar that ended earlier as a result of the advance of the coronavirus pandemic and sanitary measures.
