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A basketball player denounces racism in all games: “It can’t happen”

Again racism hits the sport again. a player of Zaragoza She has denounced in the press room the continuous insults that both she and some of her teammates receive on the different courts.

Kennedy Burke He manifests it after a EuroCup match at the Príncipe Felipe. “They were hurling insults racists me and my mates, and that just can’t happen. It’s ridiculous that wherever we go these things happen. It cannot happen just because the team loses”, said the player. The video of the complaint went viral on networks and many users supported it.

Zaragoza says goodbye to Europe

El Villeneuve D’Ascq ended the Casademont Zaragoza dream to star in a comeback and exceed 16 points for which they lost in the first leg of the Eurocup quarterfinals, since the galas ended up defeated in the Aragonese capital but by a nine-point advantage that was not enough for the tricks to turn the tie around.

Despite the fact that the difference by which they lost on French soil was wide and it seemed very difficult to overcome, the team from Zaragoza had harbored hopes of achieving it, although that dream was shattered against a rival protected by the advantage that they treasured and that made them play very don’t worry.

The Aragonese team made a good defense at the beginning of the game that lowered their rival’s scoring average, although the ‘rojillas’ attack losses, seven in the first quarter, prevented scoring options so the score ended tight (16- fifteen).

Things didn’t change too much in the second act because although the great defense from Zaragoza hamstrung the French offensive game, the losses, once again, left them with no options to try to break away.

Carlos Cantero’s team came to have a maximum advantage of five points (23-18) in minute 14 thanks to to his work behind, which tremendously bothered his rival’s offensive actions, as shown by the fact that, at that point in the match, they had only scored 28.57% of field goals.

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On the contrary, the Casademont Zaragoza was very successful (60%) but again with seven turnovers it meant that they had thrown nine times less than the visitors, so, as had happened in the first ten minutes, equality reigned on the scoreboard at halftime (31-30).

The hand team was excited in the third quarter in which they came to put seven up (40-33) and possession in minute 24, ten minutes from the comeback, but at Villeneuve one of the secondaries appeared that became the protagonist, Miryam Djekoundade, who with several baskets rescued her team from trouble to face the last set with a reassuring 45-45.

Casademont Zaragoza, seeing that at the rate that was being played he was not going to allow him to reach the dream he decided to burn his ships and play it to revolutionize the game against a French team that, on the contrary, stretched their possessions to the maximum trying to run out of time.

Once again, the faith of the players of the Aragonese team stretched the advantage to nine points (57-48) with 2:41 remaining to go, but Villeneuve knew how to cut off the reaction and avoid suffering in the final stretch.

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