Tanto la Spanish Basketball Federation as a Brand they want to honor three legends that this season They have announced their retirement from basketball. Tthree fundamental characters to understand Spanish basketball and with whom Spanish basketball itself will be in an eternal debt.
Is about Rudy Fernández, Vega Gimeno and Sergio Rodríguezwhich they will receive at the Gala to be held in Madrid next Wednesday, June 26, special award. The three have in common, in addition to their enormous legacy, end their careers in the same season, but two of them will still be active because they have one more mission left for Spanish basketball.
The special award that serves to recognize the sporting career of a player, It is used on this occasion as a well-deserved tribute to three protagonists of basketball in this country, and worldwide, in an emotional ceremony at the La Zarzuela Racecourse in Madrid.
Rudy Fernandez
History will always tell us that We have attended the last active season of Rudy Fernández. Without a doubt, the Spaniard has been one of the great references of Spanish (and world) basketball in the last 15 years. Member and leader of an unrepeatable generation of national playerschanged the course of Real Madrid with his arrival in 2012. And he helped build the most brilliant stage in the history of Spanish basketball at the selection level. Her withdrawal became one of the season’s benchmarks when he himself made it public and It was one of the most emotional moments (in a long time) when he played what was his last game in front of his fans at the WiZink Center. He wants to leave playing his sixth Olympic Games to leave behind an incomparable legacy, although first he will have to go through the tremendous screening that is the Valencia Pre-Olympic Championship (July 2 to 7).
Vega Gimeno
The captain of Casademont Zaragoza leaves a gap that will be almost impossible to fill the hearts of the Spanish fans and, in reality, all of Spanish basketball. The player who has helped make the Zaragoza team bigger announced that this was going to be his last active season and when he played his last home game something was broken forever. But Gimeno still has a challenge ahead of him, since he is part of the 3×3 Olympic team that will represent Spain at the Paris Games. A retreat in style.
Sergio Rodriguez
With his withdrawal announcement still hot, Spanish basketball assumes as it says goodbye to one of its coolest players. The canary has decided to put an end to his career, leaving behind him an extraordinary track record of triumphs and a collection of tricks‘available to very few players around the world. Specialist in changing games, in making his teammates better and in making fans dream of magic, Chacho closes a career in which he has touched the sky like few.
