Movistar Estudiantes presented its season this Wednesday in the Movistar Space of the emblematic Telefónica building on Madrid’s Gran Víaattended by the men’s and women’s teams. The event was attended by authorities such as José Manuel Rodríguez Uribes, president of the Higher Sports Counciland legends of the collegiate club such as Nacho Azofra, Pepu Hernández and Carlos Suárez, who announced his retirement this summer and has received a tribute.
Carlos Suárez, during the tribute he received from Movistar Estudiantes.
The student president, Ignacio Trianawanted to thank first of all “the support of Telefónica because without it, Movistar Estudiantes would not be here”. The college rector spoke of the club’s historic debt to the Treasury, “which reached 20 million and at the end of this season it will be four.”
Without the support of Telefónica, Movistar Estudiantes would not be here
Triana congratulated itself for having more subscribers for both the men’s and women’s teams. and, as for the objectives for the season, the boys will have the return to the Endesa League, which has resisted them since their relegation was completed in 2021. They never had it as close as last year, when they lost the decisive match against Lleida in a Final Four played at the Madrid Arena. At the presentation of the season, unlike other years, no one said the word promotion.
The Movistar Estudiantes men’s team.
The second project with Pedro Rivero On the bench he has the return of two illustrious members of the club such as the veteran Jayson Granger and Hector Alderetea youth player whose injuries have prevented him from shining as expected of him. They and the reinforcements Dejan Kravic, Pato Garino and Christian Díaz They have awakened enthusiasm.
Media medalists
Among the girls, the most requested have been Gracia Alonso de Armiño and Juana Camiliónthe two members of the Spanish national team basketball 3×3 that this summer were proclaimed Olympic runners-up at the Paris Games and European champions of the discipline. This season they will try to transfer those successes to 5×5. The collegiate team has been settled in the middle zone of the Endesa Women’s League for years, reaching the playoffs and the semifinals of the Copa de la Reina last year.
Tribute to the medalists Juana Camilión and Gracia Alonso de Armiño.
President Triana asked the players “to be what we have to be. Whom 4,000 boys and girls from the quarry pay attention to. Strong foundations must be laid so that the Estu is what it has been for another 76 years. It’s not just how well you play, which we already know, but how well you behave off the court.. That’s what makes us different.”
