MADRID 6 Mar. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Amiab Albacete, current champion, CD Ilunion and Economy Gran Canaria will seek between this Friday and Sunday their classification for the ‘Final to Cuatro’ of the Champions Cup, the maximum continental competition of basketball on wheelchair.
The Manchego team, winner of the last three editions of the Champions Cup, opens in the search for a fourth title since, next to the RSB Thuringia Bulls German, current runner -up, was exempt from a previous round through which the Madrid and Grancanario had to pass.
The Amiab Albacete will also have the advantage that gives it one of the two organizers of this round, from which the classified for the ‘Final to Four’ of the month of May will come out, and will have the support of its Lepanto pavilion where the Economy Gran Canaria will be measured and the Italians are waiting for the Holy Italian clubs Stefano Kos Group and Deco Amicacci Abruzzo.
“We face this weekend with a lot of responsibility, knowing that being within the ‘F4’ is one of the great objectives of the club. For us it implies a lot, not only for having the opportunity to defend the title, but because, the fact of being in that final Four, keeps us in the number one position of the ranking at the team level next year, although we do not conquer the competition,” said Abraham Carrión, a technician of the team. statements provided by your club.
The Amiab will begin its participation with the duel precisely before an Economy Gran Canaria, an opponent with whom he will meet for the fourth time this season in search of continuing with his full of victories, the last one is not too long ago, in the quarterfinals of the Copa del Rey by 75-61, much clearer than the other two of the Honor Division (78-70 and 72-80).
The Canarian team, who was able to overcome a hard previous group where he was able to beat two historical ones such as the German Dill Rvn Dill and the Turkish Galatasaray, will try to stand up to the champion in search of making history, although presumably his options will be played with the two Italian rivals.
On the other hand, the CD Ilunion will have to look for its passport to a new ‘final to four’ in Germany, where the other team that avoided the previous round, the RSB Thuringia Bulls Bulls German, which has played five of the last six finals of a competition that conquered in 2018 and 2019 precisely before the Madrid team.
The triple champion, overwhelming in the previous phase, is showing a great level this season where he still does not know the defeat and has already conquered the Cup and the Super Cup, in addition to leading the domestic championship with a firm hand. His duel against the German team will be on Saturday and hopes to arrive with his undefeated intact after premiere on Friday against the Turkish Fenerbahce, while he will close on Sunday against the CEAM BRIANTAA84 Cantú Italiano.
-Horracks of the Spanish teams in the quarterfinals of the Champions Cup.
Group A.
-Viene 7.
19.00 BSR Amiab Albacete – Economy Gran Canaria.
-Bed 8.
16.30 Econy Gran Canaria – Deco Amicacci Abruzzo.
19.00 Santo Stefano Kos Group – BSR Amiab Albacete.
-Domingo 9.
10.00 Santo Stefano Kos Group – ECONY GRAN CANARIA.
12.30 BSR Amiab Albacete – Deco Amicacci Abruzzo.
Group B.
-Viene 7.
17.00 Fenerbahçe Sports Club – CD Ilunion.
-Bed 8.
18.00 CD ILUNION – RSB Thuringia Bulls.
-Domingo 9.
10.00 CD Enlianion – CEAM BRIANTEA84 Cantú.