Several stages of Club Plaza Valerio in basketball in Santiago. External source.
SANTIAGO, RD.– The representative team of the Fernando (Plaza) Valerio Club has been renewed from head to toe seeking to conquer the Santiago Superior Basketball Tournament, which will begin on Friday, March 10.
If Plaza Valerio meets his goal, it will be his eighth title in the history of basketball in Santiago.
Their last championship title was in the 2011 season. Last year 2022 was their last visit to the grand final last season, where they lost to an inspired Club Gregorio Urbano Gilbert (GUG), from Ensanche Libertad.
For the next season, the team of Baracoa, La Joya, La Otra Banda, the Tabacalera neighborhood and surrounding areas has a new president, who in its first years of foundation was also directors and president several times, the engineer Tony Jaquez, who will continue to have Roby Marte as general manager.
On this occasion, the leader Víctor Peña will be accompanied in the coaching staff by the meritorious coaches Rodolfo Sánchez, Robinsón Zapata and Carlos Guillermo, with the advice of the most winning leader with the renowned Red Empire, Pedro (Putiti) Curiel.
The native squad will be headed by its captain José Américo Delgado and the versatile player Oliver García, who will be accompanied by Roberto Metebiel (Brayan García), Marlín Santana, Wilbert Rodríguez, Jonathan Morrobel, Juan Carlos Ramos (Janki” and Michael Acosta, while debuting as a native as a new team will be the veterans Franklin Sabatel (Calela) and Luís Jacobo, their U-25 player will be the Bamesian Jean Carlos Quezada and their first announced reinforcement is one of the most winners at the national level, the renowned Juan Guerrero , who was an important part for the GUG to be proclaimed champion last season.
On this occasion, the 43rd version of the Santiago Superior Basketball Tournament will take place, where the organizing committee is chaired by Ulises Rodríguez and the other participating teams are Cupes CDP, Pueblo Nuevo, Sameji and the current GUG monarchs.
