MADRID, 30 Jul. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Spanish Under-18 men’s team lost (71-81) to Serbia this Sunday in the final of the European Championship of the category held in Nis, Serbian territory.
The hostess cut short the Spanish dream, but not the fifth medal of the summer for Spain and its basketball, with a second half in which they opened up differences until they won the title.
Hugo González and Aday Mara, members of the ideal team of the championship, together with Mario Saint-Supery pulled the car before a Serbia intoned before their audience. The generation of 2005, silver medalists in the U-17 World Cup last year in Malaga and some of them recent U-19 European champions, took a step further in their projection.
Spain began commanding and lowering the euphoria of the stands (19-13) with Hugo González and Saint-Supery, before the fouls of Aday Mara. At the break, the equality was total, and the Spanish attack got bogged down in the Serbian defense at the restart. In tow, in the last quarter there was no comeback and Spain had to settle for silver.
The president of the Spanish Basketball Federation (FEB), Jorge Garbajosa, and elected president of FIBA Europe, was in charge of giving the trophy to the champions.