Valencia Basket repeats pker copero for the second year

The club will have the first male and female teams in the Copa del Rey and de la Reina, but also their children's teams in the Mini Cup

Valencia Basket keep making history, and for the second year running, be the only club to do full in coperas competitions. For the second time, it will have 4 representatives, a milestone that demonstrates that what was achieved last year was no accident, and that the entity maintains its high level of performance, both with the first teams and with the quarry.

The men's team achieved the qualification in an excellent match in the Fonteta, in the super pressure to beat Joventut de Badalona (100-70), thus closing in the best way the first part of the competition. For those of Jaume Ponsarnau, be the eighth consecutive participation in the Copa del Rey and the 21st in history. His quarterfinals rival be the FC Barcelona as in the last edition, in a competition that will take place in Mlaga this week.

In parallel, and starting even one day before, the male children's team, trained by Paco Llorens, dispute the final phase of the Mini cup opening the fire for the four teams of the club, measuring at 19 hours at Joventut. The taronja They exhibited in the Preliminary Phase held in L'Alqueria del Basket, their potential fruit of the work. They won in all their matches and were classified as heads of series, providing the draw for a group stage in which to measure Bara, Cajasiete Canarias and the same Joventut from Badalona.

For its part, the first female team, in his second season at the maximum level, he managed to achieve, not only the qualification, but also to be the head of the series for his second co-operative participation. The draw of the Queen's Cup, which this year is organized in the Multipurpose of Salamanca, to duel before Laguna City in the quarterfinals for taronja.

In turn, the women's children's team of Laura Lago, dispute the Mini cup, together with the children's teams of the rest of the participants in the Endesa Women's League. An excellent opportunity to demonstrate again the evolution of the girls of L'Alqueria del Basket, who face Sausages Pajariel Bembibre Y Campus Promises In the initial phase.

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“We are very happy, we are proud to have the four teams qualified for the Cup dispute. It is obvious to think that there are clubs that in the Endesa League do not have teams in the women's field but that is not bice so that we are not very satisfied of the work that we are developing. Beyond what the first teams are, the classification for the Minicopa of the male and female children's teams represents a recognition of the work we are doing in L'Alqueria del Basket. Every year the level of our teams in that line is being greater and the improvement is undoubted, “said Chechu Mulero, sports director of Valencia Basket.

Regarding senior teams, Mulero highlighted the fight of Ponsarnau's men, “who have had to fight a lot to qualify for a tremendously even Endesa League in which we have not had the regularity we would have liked.” As for the women's team, “he has qualified with great misery, playing a great basketball despite the physical problems that we had in the final part of the first round, it is a very deserved classification,” he said.

This cudruple participation is a new demonstration of the Valencia Basket's commitment to global basketball, without differentiation of gender and work that is done from the base, not neglecting the evolution of the young promises that are formed in L'Alqueria del Basket, both on the track and outside it under the values ​​of the Culture of Effort.