This Sunday against Joventut Badalona was the cruelest victory experienced at the Fontes Do Sar. ANDl Monbus Workshopwho managed to find his best basketball heading into the final stretch of the season, said goodbye to the Endesa League after thirteen consecutive seasons in the ACB. And he did it despite winning decisively on the last day of the regular phase. That bitter triumph, because it was insufficient, put end of an era, the best in the history of the Santiago club. The one in which, entrusted to people from the house, the club managed to remain among the best after that promotion in 2011 thanks to the leadership of a Moncho Fernández whose image after the game left a taste of farewell.
The reality is that the Monbus Obradoiro during these years has been a milestone. that club founded in October 1970, achieved its first participation in the top category in 1982, but it only lasted one year. Later, he almost did it in the 90s, but Júver Murcia won the promotion tie with controversy. So much so that He had to wait 19 years for justice to be done. Well, it was finally in 2009 when, after years of judicial process and appeals, Obradoiro was able to get a team in the highest category, after the ACB was forced by the Supreme Court to grant him the place he deserved when it was confirmed that there was an irregularity with the passport of Esteban Pérez, then a Júver Murcia player. But that second attempt at the elite didn’t go well either.
The team, which then played under Curro Segura, was relegated at the end of the season. And that setback began that romantic project that in just one year returned to the ACB, that the following season managed to get into the playoffs and even compete in the Copa del Rey. And all thanks to a gear that, over time, lost some of its pieces, including a main one and that, after what has happened now, may also lose the angular one.
The era of the Moncho-Mateo tandem
In 2010, after relegation to LEB Oro, the club was entrusted to someone from the house, to a man from Santiago who completely revolutionized basketball. Moncho Fernandez He returned the team to the Endesa League in just one year and began to create his own philosophy and style that have made him become a master over time. Something in which he contributed, and a lot, José Luis Mateo, who came to the general and sports management of the club in 2012 and promoted the project in such a way that that same season they played in the playoffs.
Three years later, in 2016, Obradoiro even played in the Copa del Rey as host, in that event that ended up moving to the Coliseum da Coruña. However, the greatest milestone of all these years was staying in the elite for so long. Something that seemed to be a regular occurrence… until some movements occurred, mainly the departure of José Luis Mateo last summer.
That setback sowed certain doubts among the fans, who saw one of the main pieces of the structure for eleven years, leaving the club. And if something had characterized that romantic basketball project that the Obradoiro had become, it was because the good tandem when signing and planning that Mateo and Moncho formed. Something that, after his departure, has not finished working or being the same despite the arrival of Eduardo Pascual.
From Mateo’s goodbye to the mystery with Moncho after a year of setbacks
The truth is that Things didn’t go well for the club at the start either.. It is enough to check that fateful back injury to Rigoberto Mendoza, which occurred in the second game of the season for Moncho Fernández’s team, and which kept him out of the court for almost three months, and how his aspirations to play in the Basketball Champions League ( BCL), they broke up at the first opportunity by not passing the qualifying phase that gave entry to the competition. If with his loss the perimeter was already affected, the departure of Eric Washington of his own free will in October ended up finishing it off.
There, Zurbriggen and Pol Figueras had no choice but to take on more honors than expected. More than anything because although the club did not take long to sign a replacement for Mendoza, Badzim – who was only until the end of December -, it did take a month to incorporate a point guard: Kovliar, who has missed the final stretch due to an injury on one foot This is how it came to Februarywhere again Obradoiro went to the market and brought in Strelnieks, Timma and Dotson. And although the second has had good moments of lucidity and the third has worked, the first, which was the one that aimed high, has not.
And although in the last moments of the competition, Moncho Fernández knew how to give his team the necessary character to try to fight until the end… It was not enoughas demonstrated by Artem Pustovyi’s tears when he saw that Covirán Granada did not fail in their match against Gran Canaria.
There, everything went wrong, leaving open one more possibility that began to come to life and spread like wildfire based on what happened. Moncho Fernandez, who had already gone into the locker room, came out again, containing his emotions, and trying to console the fans to whom he was saying goodbye. A gesture that sounded like a farewell and that, if so, it may mean another change of cycle, now on the bench, and the confirmation that that romantic project that filled Santiago with hope for 14 years has already come to an end to give way to a new and full one. of unknowns in the LEB Oro.
2024-05-13 14:50:47
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