MADRID, 8 Ago. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Unicaja point guard Alberto Díaz, Casademont Zaragoza player Jonathan Barreiro, Gran Canaria forward Miquel Salvó and Movistar Estudiantes academy player Héctor Alderete are the first names to leave the Spanish team for Eurobasket 2022, after the first week of training.
The coach, Sergio Scariolo, has announced that these four players will leave training and that they will not travel to Athens with the group, where Spain will play its first friendly match, for which 17 players are called, against Greece this Tuesday (6:00 p.m.). .
Sergio Llull will not travel either, with permission from the Federation, who will not be with the group until Wednesday for personal reasons, and Alberto Abalde and Usman Garuba will be there, who will not play while they continue to recover from their respective injuries.
The national coach stressed that the four players who will no longer be “have done an excellent job” and explained their cases. Regarding Barreiro and Salvó, he assured that “they have already established themselves in the national team and continue to progress.”
Different are the situations of Héctor Alderete, who was with the national team after shining with the U-20 and Alberto Díaz, who was not one hundred percent. “Héctor Alderete has shown us that he can evolve in the position of ‘4’, even ‘3’, and I hope that he can find room to grow in experience,” he said.
“Alberto Díaz was not very well physically, he has also been there quite a few times and will be more times, but we want him to finish recovering completely in a correct way and with more time in a complete preseason with his club,” said Scariolo.