Básquet Girona continues to work on thestage in Calonge preparation for the debut at the ACB. It will be Wednesday, in Fontajau, and against Real Madrid, the best stage and rival that the Girona could ask for for their return to the top flight fourteen years later. While the coach Aíto García Reneses tries to get the maximum performance from the team, the president and pivot Marc Gasol takes care of adding to the track and the infrastructure of the club. Today he acknowledged that will try his best to play next wednesday. And obviously, you don’t want to miss it.
“Just like the team, I’m also evolving. I feel encouraged and happy. I am finalizing to try to be with the colleagues next Wednesday. I want to participate and see a full Fontajau again. It’s an award, although I also have an age and it must be taken into account”, he said. For Gasol, this season the key to everything will be the coach, who has been praised: “From the two points of view I can have, the institutional part and as a player, This is a key piece and we are very lucky to be able to count on him. For me it is an honor to share the day to day with him, seeing him with so much energy, positivity and insistence to teach us. As president, I know that someone like Aíto leads this ship is a guarantee». “We are improving as a team. Assimilating concepts, how to help each other and communicate on the track… We are facing the end with the desire to return to Fontajau again to relive that beautiful feeling of a couple of months ago.”, he added.
Against Madrid, Gasol will fulfill the main objective that led him to start the Girona Basketball project: “I’m proud to see the club we are right now. There is a base with more than 400 families: it was one of our goals to have boys and girls. Thanks to Uni and GEiEG we were able to do it. Apart from the response of more than 4,000 subscribers. The workers at the club have had practically no summer because they have worked hard to make a club that everyone can be proud of. I’m happy with the way we work. Now it’s time for the players to do our part on the court.”
Although “it may seem like a cliché”, the pivot has stated that the team is not too focused on Madrid: “We are more focused on us than on the rival. obviously, we already know Madrid as a team and entity. We know the titles he has won in recent years and the solid squad he has. Right now the most important thing is us and what we achieve firmly as a group. We hope that this trust we have in each other will increase every day.”
In addition, he assured that “this season is very important, like all the ones we have done so far”. “It’s difficult to be able to enjoy yourself while working, but you have to know how to do it. We have to look at where we come from and enjoy it, while being ambitious to keep looking forward. This goes for work every day. I am proud of the team we are building”, he said. “I would like people to enjoy and see themselves reflected on the court with a good basketball atmosphere. I hope Girona wins. For me, the most important thing is that the team continues to grow.”
