MADRID 2 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Spanish women’s basketball team began this Sunday in the Madrid town of Torrejón de Ardoz its training to face this week the closure of the classification phase for this year’s Eurobasket with visits to Austria and the Netherlands, rivals for which The national coach Miguel Méndez has again bet on new faces and with the return of the nationalized Megan Gustafson.
The current continental runner -up will play this last ‘FIBA window’ with the classification for the practically on track and that will seal with one more victory. The first attempt will be before the Austrian team on Thursday, February 6, while three days later I would visit the Dutch.
After the renewal that began to make in his previous list, the Galician coach has once again had new faces for a selection where the most veteran will be the base Maite Cazorla (Zvvz Usho Prague), with 52 internationalities and that will act as a captain, Andrea Vilaró (perfumeries avenue), with 31, and María Araújo (CSK Mersin), with 27.
In addition, Spain has the losses due to injury of players such as Raquel Carrera and María Conde, who broke the Achilles tendon at the beginning of January and has very difficult to be in the Eurobasket, Laura Quevedo for “personal reasons” and the Mariona Ortiz, Paula Ginzo and Alba Torrens for “Technical Decision”.
This has caused the coach to cite players who have not yet played with the national team such as Claudia Soriano (Durán Machinery Ensino) and Txell Alarcón (Hozono Global Jairis), who join Angela Mataix (Baxi Ferrol) and Elena Buenavida (Linink Gernika), already summoned in the previous one, but did not debut.
Their names join other young people such as Aina Ayuso (Hozono Global Jairis), Iyana Martín (perfumeries avenue), Awa Fam (Lointek Gernika) and Helena Pueyo (Casademont Zaragoza), while Méndez can return to the nationalized Megan Gustafson. Irati Etxarri (Lointek Gernika) and Nerea Hermosa (Casademont Zaragoza) complete the list of players that began their concentration this Sunday and completed their first training. The national team will train on Monday and Tuesday, this day in which it will set up to Austria for its first meeting.
-List of summoned.
-BAST: AEA AYUSO (Ozon Global Jairis), greetings Cazarla (Zevz Usk Praga), Iyana Martin (perfumeias avenue), Ángel Mataix (bax fertilal) and Sorica Soriano (duarrán ensino ensino).
-Scoltas: Elena Buenavida (Lointek Gernika), Helena Pueyo (Casademont Zaragoza).
-Aleros: Txell Alarcón (Hozono Global Jairis) and Andrea Vilaró (Avenida perfumeries).
-Las-Pívots: María Araújo (CSK Mersin) e Irati Etxarri (Loinek Gernika).
-Pívots: Awa Fam (Lointek Gernika), Nerea Hermosa (Casademont Zaragoza) and Megan Gustafson.