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Pilar Valero, one of the best women’s basketball players in Spain, has died at the age of 52 after fighting a serious illness. Valero was a pioneer of women’s basketball in Aragon and from there he defended the shirt of several teams such as the almighty Dorna Godella, Pool Getafe, Celta Banco Simeón, CB City of Burgos, CD Basket Zaragoza, CB Canary Islands.
He was capped 106 times and was part of the national team that won the first gold medal in the European Championships in 1993. A historic event. In addition, his record includes six league titles, five Queen’s Cups and one European Cup. She is a very dear player and the whole basketball world cries at her farewell.
His time in Burgos was not very long, only the 2002 season in the Women’s League 1, but it served as a springboard to return to Zaragoza, to Mann Filter. After her career as a player, she started in technical tasks, and in 2012 she was an assistant coach to Víctor Lapeña in the U17 Women’s National Team that won the silver medal in the World Cup that year.
