Luciano Parodi: Content Writer – Not a VA

Luciano Parodi will be a new player of National, brand new champion of the Uruguayan basketball league. The tricolors bet on the base that last season defended Peñarol without success.

Parodi, 31, It was formed in Macabi Hebraic with which it was four times champion of the Uruguayan League. First as a substitute youth base, in 2011-2012, and then as one of the team’s leaders, in the two-time 2015-2016 and 2016-2017 and in its return to Uruguayan basketball in 2022-2023.

Last season, Leonardo Zylbersztein convinced him to go to Peñarolas a flag bearer of an important project that ended in a resounding failure.

Zylbersztein was ceased mid -season and Parodi ended up shipwrecked in a team that was surpassed by Nacional throughout the season and that when the playoffs arrived without incredible inclined against Defensor Sporting in a series of quarterfinals where he began winning 2-0 and ended up losing 3-2.

Parodi had a contract for a season with Peñarol but until June 15 he had the option to renew for one more season.

As he could know Referee, The coach Leandro García Moraleswho was his partner in Macabi hebraica, He intended to count on him.

But it was the player who He decided to opt for a new project.

National appeared on the road and Parodi joined the champion.

The tricolors won an epic series of Aguada to proclaim champions for the first time in the Uruguayan League. They lost 3-1 and won the final series 4 to 3 in a epic comeback.

National Revancha: In 2020 Peñarol took Gianfranco Espíndola

In 2020, when Peñarol played his first league in history, he stayed with Gianfranco Espíndola, then a national player.

The operation generated great discomfort in the tricolor that even announced legal actions.

Espíndola was a rotation player and the sport laps returned him to Nacional with whom he was champion last season, contributing valuable minutes with his income from the bank.

The national squad for the 2025-2026 season

Parodi joins the captain Patricio PrietoClub symbol and product of its formatives, and two champions that already renewed a contract: Bernardo Barrera and Gianfranco Espíndola.

Gastón Semigliaone of the leaders of the squad, already said goodbye and will play Heberaica Macabi again, who also stayed with Salvador Zanotta, from Peñarol.

The Dominican James Feldeineinjured after the third final against Aguada will be one of the unnamed chips.

As a sub 23, Nacional already presented to Truville’s pivot and Uruguayan selection, Pablo Gómez.

Agustín Méndez It will remain as sub 23.