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Spanish basketball celebrated the nine medals won in 2022, in the nine world and European games in which it participated, during an event held at the Endesa headquarters that was attended by Rudy Fernández, captain of the senior team. José Bogas, CEO of Endesa, and Jorge Garbajosapresident of the Spanish Basketball Federation who turned 45 on Monday and to whom “happy birthday” was sung, were the hosts of the event in which representatives of all the champion and runner-up teams were also present.
“It is the home of basketball and we are proud of it. It’s easy because of what you convey to us. The effort, the responsibility of everyone is incredible. The successes may or may not come, but the great success is not the medals but the values that are transmitted”, said Bogas.
“For us, the medals must be a consequence and that they represent us in the way that all the teams do means that we cannot ask for more,” said Garbajosa. “The present lasts as long as it lasts and for me, the greatest thing is that when nobody believed in them they fought until the final victory. That is why the most important thing is the legacy”, continued the president of the FEB.
In addition to the nine medals, the gold ones of the absolute masculine Eurobasket, the U20 masculine Eurobasket, the U20 women’s Eurobasket, the U18 European men’s and the silver ones of the U16 men’s and women’s Europeans, the U17 world championships for men and women’s and the women’s European sub’18, Garbajosa also congratulated himself for having ousted the United States from number one in the FIBA ranking. “They will have done something to have been able to dethrone the United States as number one in the FIBA world ranking,” he said full of pride.
Rudy Fernández, captain of the senior team, congratulated “everyone for what they have achieved this summer” and commented “to be lucky to be able to live these experiences, although he stressed that this last Eurobasket has been very special”. “When we were focused, we saw that the training categories transmitted those values that we try to transfer every summer. the secret of this team is to believe in the people we had next to us. We have been a family and this summer we have enjoyed every day”, concluded Rudy Fernández.
