Spain tests its wardrobe in Romania
The women’s basketball team begins the last ‘window’ for the Eurobasket already classified and with sensitive casualties
MADRID, 8 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Spanish women’s basketball team will face Romania this Thursday (5:00 p.m. / Teledeporte) the first of their last two qualifying matches for the Eurobasket in Israel and Slovenia next June, a duel with nothing at stake for the Miguel Méndez’s team, who comes with significant casualties.
Spain has already done its homework in Group C of this qualifying phase, in which it has won all its matches and now hopes to finish undefeated in its last two visits to Romania and, on Sunday, to Iceland, clashes that can help to the technician to go adjusting things facing the continental appointment and to check the ‘closet bottom’ with which it counts.
The national team goes to the Sepsi Arena in the Romanian town of Sfantu Gheorge without some of its main references such as Silvia Domínguez, Maite Cazorla, Queralt Casas, Astou Ndour, Leticia Romero or Leo Rodríguez, who did not enter their initial list, and Alba Torrens , María Conde and Raquel Carrera, who did, but suffered different injuries last week that prevented them from concentrating.
This has caused the coach to go with a very renewed team, but which still maintains players with whom he has already been working since his arrival, such as the ‘veteran’ Cristina Ouviña, Irati Etxarri, María Aráujo, Paula Ginzo and Laura Quevedo.
All of them are also joined for this double commitment by another international with many matches in their history such as Laura Gil, who returned to play at the end of 2022 after a serious knee injury, or Andrea Vilaró, who had not been called up for a long time.
For this reason, Miguel Méndez wants to take advantage of these ‘procedures’, in addition to continuing to refine the set-up for the Eurobasket, to see new players such as the debutants Mariona Ortiz, Marta Canella and María Eraunzetamurgil, or still with very little international experience. like Ángela Salvadores, Sandra Ygueravide or Laia Flores. In fact, Ygueravide and Canella are more regulars in the 3×3 mode.
With these wickers, Spain continues to start as a favorite for the two games, which will have the main difficulty in playing at home. In the first one, they face a Romania that they overwhelmed in Almería by a hefty 107-52, although the Spanish coach has already warned that he does not expect so many facilities against an opponent who is playing their few qualifying options.
Dan Calancea, the Romanian coach, also has problems with casualties and has formed a squad made up of players from the Romanian league, except for the center Anamaria Virjogheha, who plays for Esperides Kalliothea and is one of their main pieces in attack.
DATASHEET.
–EQUIPMENT.
ROMANIA: Stanici, Stoenescu, Ghizila, Podar, Biszak, Armanu, Manea, Irimia, Uiuiu, Fota, Mititelu, Ardelean, Sipos, Orban and Virjoghe.
SPAIN: Ouviña, Flores, Ortiz, Ygueravide, Salvadores, Vilaró, Quevedo, Ginzo, Etxarri, Araujo, Gil, Eraunzetamurguil and Canella.
–PAVILLION: Sepsi Arena.