Alejandro Gómez says in Ryan Luther’s presentation that “there have been many difficulties” in living up to this tradition
It is the wish of the fans for the end of each preseason and also of the club itself. With more reason this year, with eight new faces in the first squad. Playing a friendly match in the Murcia region is a tradition that UCAM tries to fulfill every September and luck has eluded them on this occasion.
Until the last minute, Alejandro Gómez’s management fought to find a rival, but no Endesa League team has wanted or been able to travel to Yecla, a city that would be the only UCAM friendly on Murcian soil. Last year, this match came out at the last minute, with Manresa as its rival, and the desired resolution was about to be repeated with the acceptance of the Greek Karditsas, a team recently promoted to the Greek First Division this season and whose chairman is Former player Ioannis Bourousis, a story with certain parallels with that of Marc Gasol in Girona, was promoted to the highest national category this summer.
With the yes of the Greeks, UCAM quickly contacted the town hall of Yecla, ready to fully approve the celebration of this match for next Saturday morning, Tuesday afternoon, a day full of basketball in the city of Altiplano, since at the same time that UCAM and Karditsas would duel at the José Ortega Chumilla sports center, a 12-hour competition between different training clubs from Murcia and Alicante is scheduled in the Herratillas hall.
Hours after the machines were commissioned, however, they had to go through with the cancellation. The logistics of the flights gave no guarantee that the Karditsas could arrive on time and everything had to be thrown back. Before the Greeks’ no, more for surrender to the elements than for lack of will, Granada also couldn’t because of the agenda and the rest of the Endesa League map didn’t think a trip to the region was appropriate, which isn’t the best at the moment connected to the rest of the country, with the season just around the corner and many of its players still landing or moving after the late continental tournaments of the AmeriCup and especially the Eurobasket. As Alejandro Gómez, the club’s general manager, said during Ryan Luther’s presentation yesterday, “There have been many difficulties” in being able to live up to something that was a tradition.
Murcia fans will therefore have to wait until September 29, the date of their debut at the Palace against Breogán, to meet their new players. Among them Ryan Luther (Pennsylvania, 1995), an American with an Irish passport and who was introduced to the media yesterday. Radovic’s addition in the power forward position to open the field, although Luther without assuming the threat of the perimeter who were DiLeo or Webb III, Luther assures that Sito has asked him “to shoot, but also a attempt to defend and to be in continuous communication with my colleagues.
On his debut in the Endesa League after three seasons split between Latvian Ventspils and Turkey’s Darüssafaka and Gaziantep, Luther considers the opportunity presented by UCAM “very important”. Right now: “I’m adapting and feeling more and more comfortable.”
Source: La Verdad
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