Basketball. The newly promoted club from the southern district of Murcia makes its debut in the EBA League “after much suffering” to register
When asked if they saw that black could live up to his sporting promotion in the offices, Álvaro Bernal answers firmly. “Not black, very black”, points the ‘MVP’ of the last ‘Final Four’ of the 1st Division in which AD Infante won its second league title (and second promotion) after that of 2019. in a few weeks was the big challenge and despite the fact that the day after the lifting of the trophy on the Príncipe de Asturias “we had already moved all our people to find the necessary support”, these neighborhood boys -nine players from the championship team live in the Infante- felt “with a certain laziness, because we saw that all the efforts did not pay off,” said Bernal, a player involved in the structure of a club in which many of his players act as coaches at the same time as training teams .
June 30 was the limit set by the Spanish Basketball Federation, the organization that governs the EBA competition, on registration guarantees. Basketball is a sport in which many things can happen in a very short time and only the last buzzer says it’s over. Something similar happened in the offices. “Two days earlier is the moment when, thanks to a meeting that the city council of Murcia arranges for us with a company, they tell us that they can help us,” says Bernal, although it is not the famous 30,000 euros that the club is looking for wash go away with guarantees. “But it gave us a certain solvency to go out” one to which the nearly 40 sponsors contribute, some bigger than the other, that the club has.
A last-ditch effort to get the white smoke everyone wanted was “a real madness, with three or four charges totally desperate for days”, and that included numerous meetings with representatives of the public such as the mayor José Antonio Serrano and the Councilor of Hacienda Enrique Lorca by the Municipal Council of Murcia, and Fran Sánchez, of the Directorate-General for Sport, by the Autonomous Community.
Last season of the 1st division was started by 14 teams, but only one could be left. And yet, what the song dictated wouldn’t be the hardest thing to see in EBA. At least for “a team that does not have great purchasing power, but with the hard work of everyone it is possible to move forward”, says the president, María del Carmen Botías, proudly, assuring that “we live up to our values of the neighborhood club One in which basketball has long dethroned football as the king of the sport.
The illusion is making its way to one of the biggest clubs in the Murcia region, with 22 federated teams in all categories and both genders, and ten gyms preparing a “great season, although it is every season,” nuances the top leader. “We are excited about the effort it has taken us to be here, what it means to be for the club in the EBA for the first time and because we have a lot of young people who want to show that they are in this league. can play. league”, wants to point out Paco Alarcón, who, in addition to being a coach, is also vice president of the club. “This year we are all more animated and very happy,” acknowledges the president, who is delighted “with the growth of the Infante family, in which all the children continue to grow with that reference of the EBA team that we are launching”.
The economic problem solved, now it’s up to the Infante not to make this trip to the EBA league with a return ticket. Alarcón, one of the most recognized coaches in the region and with a long career spanning the structure of the FEB, has “high hopes to do well”.
With a player base that continues and identifies the quarry, in the case of Bernal himself, Alarcón believes that “we achieve a balanced team, because we have a lot of youth, but also have experience to have balance in difficult times.” The style is no secret. “It’s going to be fun, dynamic and entertaining. We’ll rely on defending and running, playing on the full field and maintaining a very fast pace in the game.” Neither does philosophy. “We’re going to think about winning every game, but one by one,” Alarcón continues.
Source: La Verdad
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