Head, heart and character – AS.com

Women’s basketball has grown by leaps and bounds in the 21st century, but it hasn’t forgotten its roots. Although Blanca Ares remembers her predecessors (Rocío Jiménez, Carolina Mújica, Wonny Geuer…), the truth is that she represented like no other that DNA that has characterized Spanish basketball. Because although it is a high-level sport, for years those deficiencies were solved based on head, heart and, above all, a lot character. The one that made her shine in a meteoric sprint race, because it took her five or six years to become one of the best in the history of Spanish basketball until, at the age of 26, she said “enough”, but with a European gold, the first for our basketball, hanging around his neck.

“And this is as far as we have come” Elisa Aguilar also said with that other European gold that came in 2013, just 20 years after Blanca’s. A lot of time had passed, but the essence, with the “Pancho Villa Army”, was the same. Head, heart and a lot of character.