Abraham Carrión facilitates the call for the European Wheelchair Basketball

MADRID, 23 May. (EUROPA PRESS) –

The Spanish men’s wheelchair basketball coach Abraham Carrión, announced this Monday the list of summoned for the next European Championship, which will be held in the Dutch town of Rotterdam from August 10 to 19 and with the main news from Julio Vilas (Iberconsa Amfiv) and Pablo Lavandeira (Ilunion).

As reported by the FEDDF, the coach has decided to have the block that was in the past Paralympic Games in Tokyo, with veteran players such as Alejandro Zarzuela (Amiab Albacete), Asier García (Bidaideak Bilbao), Daniel Stix (Ilunion), Jordi Ruiz ( Thuringia Bulls) or Pablo Zarzuela (UCAM Murcia). Along with them, Óscar Onrubia and Fran Lara, from Amiab Albacete, Amadou Diallo, Ignacio Ortega and Pablo Lavandeira (Ilunion), Manu Lorenzo (Bidaideak Bilbao) and Julio Vilas (Iberconsa Amfiv).

On the other hand, regarding the group with which the coach has been working, Joaquín Robles (UCAM Murcia), Adrián García Ingelmo (Bidaideak Bilbao), Raúl Vega (Econy), Alexis Ruiz (FDI Villa Leganés Foundation) have fallen from previous concentrations. , Agustín Alejos (Iberconsa Amfiv), Iván Martínez Toscano (Hornets Le Cannet) and David Mouriz (Bidaideak Bilbao), the latter due to injury.

“We are all with the mentality of fighting for gold to be in Paris and we have all the tools to face the tournament with the best guarantees. The process has been very long, the people who go know that they have to give their souls and we will transmits. We want Spain to be at the top of world basketball,” said Carrión.

For Enrique Álvarez, president of the Spanish Federation of Sports for People with Physical Disabilities (FEDDF), the national team “has the challenge of reaching the Paralympic Games in Paris” and for this “the only way” is to win the title.

“We have a competitive team, very hungry and that combines expert people with young boys. I think we can do a great job, although basketball puts you in your place later. Even so, we are going to fight for gold,” added the leader.

The European will have the participation of twelve teams divided into two groups. In A are the Netherlands, Germany, Poland, Spain, Switzerland and Latvia, and in B are Great Britain, Italy, France, Austria, Israel and Turkey.