BARCELONA, 12 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Hungarian forward of the Joventut Badalona Adam Hanga club declared that in this edition of the Copa del Rey, which starts this Thursday in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, there is no clear favorite and that this is an opportunity for his team, which will be measured in Finals to Unicaja (18.30) in which it will be the opening match of the competition.
“The Cup always I think is very open. But really this year I would not say that there is a favorite. You never know who is going to win. So good, this is cool I think that for fans. And well, a Opportunity for us too, “Hanga said in an interview with Europa Press about the equality that exists between the eight teams participating in this edition of the Cup.
The Verdinegro team will be measured in the quarterfinals to Unicaja, champion of the tournament in 2023, a team with which they know each other very well. “We know each other very well. It is a team that plays very physical. That leads you to the limit of playing in the passes lines. And well, you force you that you have to play 5 against 5. And they after good defense try to run and take out Easy baskets, “he said.
“We have to prepare the game very well because we know that it costs us a lot to play against teams that play physical,” Hanga said about the game they will play against Ibon Navarro, against which they already measured themselves in November in a game in a game of Endesa League and ended with Victoria Malagaña (75-79).
In case of defeating the team of the Costa del Sol, the ‘Penya’ could be measured in the semifinals to Barça, a team with which the Hungarian forward achieved the title three times (2018, 2019 and 2021). A possible confrontation in which he does not want to think. “I don’t think further. I don’t have much sense to think about it. In such a tournament you have to play every day. The first game is the most important and then we’ll see what happens next,” he said.
This will be Hanga’s first participation in the Copa del Rey as a player of the Joventut, a team that reached this past summer and that it was not difficult to adapt. “Adapting was very easy for my family. Because it is almost like going home after three years. companions, “he said.
The 35 -year -old decided to return to Spain after a year in the Red Star, assuming a reference role from the one who learns every day. “I’m learning every day. As a veteran I also try As I am.
With the aim of lengthening his career the player has decided to retire from the Hungarian team. A decision that defines as “complicated but simple.” “It was a complicated but simple decision, because I have valued many things in my life. I have valued things with my family and in the end it was a decision that was very clear, the decision I had to make,” he said.
“I have valued that I would like to play more years and I see myself here, helping this team and being part of this project in the ‘Penya’,” said a Hanga that ends a contract in 2026 and who intends to continue his sports career in the greenish team.
However, perhaps he misses, when he retired, he could not debut in the NBA, aspiration he had in 2017. Although he would not change the fulfillment of that goal for the Euroleague title he achieved with Real Madrid in 2023. “Never I would change the debut in the NBA for removing the Euroleague trophy, so well, in the end everything has gone well and everything has gone in this way, “concluded the Hungarian forward, who travels to Gran Canaria with the aim of achieving her fourth cup of the king.