The Jose Antonio Pineda will be the scene of the last meeting of 2022 for the CAB Estepona Jardín de la Costa del Sol, which receives this Saturday (7:45 p.m., CanalFEB) a The Cordà de Paternaa team linked/subsidiary of Valencia Basket, one of the most powerful clubs in the current national women’s basketball scene and which has some of the main national promises in its LF Challenge squad.
It will be a new validation for the Estepona team, which this season alternates great games with others in which they are not capable of showing their potential. Two of the best matches that the CAB Estepona Garden of the Costa del Sol this season have possibly been the defeats against Baxi Ferrol (66-69) and Celta Zorka Recalvi (68-62), two teams from the top of the table, like this weekend’s rival, and against which it was demonstrated that you can compete against anyone, just like it happened in alcobendas (76-74), where a shot was counted on to win the game. Details that make the current balance of six wins and eight losses and no better.
La Cordà de Paterna, con Gloria Estopà On the bench, this year his squad mixes experience and youth in abundance, but with a link: quality. The relationship agreement between the club from the town near the capital and Valencia Basket made the team this season almost more like a subsidiary than a linked one, since the Paterna entity only puts the square, the game pavilion, on the wing -pivot Germán Itziar and the exterior, still in junior age, Paula Lopezthe rest of the staff and template is from the taronja team.
In addition to the aforementioned Germán, top assistant in the league despite playing in interior positions, the point guard Clara Chewho last season was a member of Recoletas Zamoraand the outer Virginia Saezwho achieved promotion to LF Endesa with Hozono Global Jairis, they act as “veterans” in the squad despite being only 25 and 27 years old respectively, which speaks of the insulting youth of the rest of the squad. The other players who work under Estopà’s orders are linked to the top category team, or in the case of the juniors also to teams in their category of Valencia BasketTherefore, knowing which squad will play in Estepona seems complicated, since the calls vary constantly depending on the needs of the Taronja club.
This season the foreigner from Leon could not yet debut due to injury Alicia Florez in Frida Cecchi and the last matches in the interior of the Balearic Islands Noah Djiu It has not been of the game, but that does not detract from Nou Basquet Paterna, which has great names within the national youth scene such as Laia Lamana (2002), Elena Buenavida (2004) or Awa Fam (2006), unbalancing players in their positions . In addition, other names such as the Polish international Emily Kalenik (2004), Laia Monclova (2005), Lucía Navarro (2005), who will share the university next season with Carla Viegasor Lucía Rivas (2006) are common in the calls.
Definitely The Cordà de Paterna He has shown this season that he is capable of playing at different game rhythms and adapting to both his rivals and the available squad, being one of the most efficient defenses in the category and one of the teams that best shares the ball. An always complicated rival to close the year.
