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Regret in the Albacete Basketball School for the serious accident suffered on Saturday by 22 children and 2 monitors

The coaches and players of the Albacete Basketball School They are still scared in body and mind, after the serious accident suffered by two monitors and 22 minors from the club’s children’s and cadet teams last Saturday.

They returned from playing the matches of the last day of the Castilla-La Mancha Regional Basketball League in their respective categories, when before four in the afternoon the bus in which they were traveling had a tire burst. As a result, the driver lost control and skipped the median at kilometer 52 of the A-31 motorwayMadrid direction, at the height of the Albacete municipality of La Gineta, about 15 kilometers from reaching its destination, in the Albacete capital.

This is how he tells ABC how the accident happened director of the CDE Basketball Schools of Albacete, Daniel Gálvezwhich reports that, fortunately, almost all the minors only suffered minor injuries, as did one of the monitors.

Only two of them had to be admitted to the hospital in the capital and will soon be discharged. The other coach who traveled with them had worse luck, who is still hospitalized and is in serious condition, with a reserved prognosis.

“The worst thing is the psychological state in which many of them find themselves,” says a distressed Daniel Gálvez, who tells that both the boys and the families and the members of the club have required help from the College of Psychologists of Castilla-La Mancha.

Players and coaches of the CDE Albacete Basketball Schools

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One of the physiotherapists at the Albacete Basketball School also offered to treat any ailment that could help the affected players 24 hours a day, underlines Gálvez, who also appreciates all the support received since Saturday from inside and outside the sport. Shows of support such as those published on Twitter by the president of Castilla-La Mancha, Emiliano García-Page, or the national leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo.

Likewise, the Basketball Federation of Castilla-La Mancha, in conversations with the CDE Escuelas de Baloncesto Albacete, decided to postpone all the matches of their teams on this day, including the Copa U19MAS, which was held in the Toledo town of Sonseca. “We wholeheartedly thank all the clubs involved for their understanding in this regard,” they indicated on their social networks.

He CDE Albacete Basketball Schools It was born in 2006 thanks to the years of work carried out by a series of monitors in different schools in the capital of Albacete where they teach this sport. “It is one of the biggest clubs in Castilla-La Mancha”, highlights its director, who explains that it is made up of more than 400 players and more than 30 coaches and friends who have known each other for years.

“We are still in shock because of the accident and because the coach most affected is one of the most successful and a very dear person within the club”, says Gálvez, who hopes that everything will end up as a scare and to be able to continue the competition without further ado in order to enjoy the sport that unites them: basketball.

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