Gonzalo Varela, president of the Biguá basketball commission, after the championship reviewed the title, the place that discipline occupies in the club, and a dream that Pato would be champion on his court.
Regarding the objective achieved, he indicated: “First of all I want to congratulate Nacional, who praised our triumph because the work of Leo Zylbersztein and the boys was incredible. They overcame a lot of things and all that effort made the finals shine. We are very happy, we have been working for a long time, ordering many things and this year we saw the possibility of putting together the weapons so that in a short championship we could reach this. We recover Pepo (Vidal) who is an emblematic figure of the house. We got a trio of foreigners that was a huge leap in quality, we also recovered another player from the house like Beco Loriente, we gave the space for Martín Rojas, our Sub 23, to occupy a place of brilliance in the squad “.
In reference to whether the club recovered the mystique of fighting important things, and how to maintain that, he said: “Totally, this year all social strata were aligned with basketball, and we had the support of the entire institution. I do not think it is difficult to continue, obviously it is very difficult to repeat a campaign like this, but basketball has once again won its place within the club and that is not going to lose it any more, because the people celebrated and the mystique of the team became to the court. The values that we have of the club were transmitted, from the team to the outside, nothing is going to mean losing that ”.
“It was a very rare championship, with the whole issue of Covid, different injuries, for everyone it was a very difficult championship. In those difficult moments, we chose to maintain the line of work that we had defined at the beginning of the year and not deviate from that. Fortune helped us, because at the time of definition we arrived with a healthy squad. Then we had the huge loss of Pepo, who for us is an irreplaceable player and yet the squad was able to overcome. The heart that Pepo showed the day he tried to play, when he couldn’t even step, showed for his teammates that if they put their hearts in, the team was there to go far beyond the limitations they might have. When that is achieved in a team, it reaches great things “, He declared about the imponderables that the leadership had, before and during the contest.
On MVP Donald Sims, the president said: “Donald is an extraordinary player, and the best thing is that he accompanies those player conditions with his personal ones. Professional conduct is far beyond what one could expect, it is one of those players who arrived an hour before to train, stayed behind, always worked, had a word of encouragement, was always ready to build. It is a show, our wish is to renew it for the next League, we are working on that. He wants to stay, obviously he is a player of a difficult economic level to sustain in our League, but we will try to shelter him and perhaps we can repeat for next season ”.
“Hernán’s (Laginestra) brought had several ups and downs. It was difficult for him to adapt to us, and for the club to adapt to the way he works. However, we achieved with him what we wanted, which was to change the way we play. We understood at the time that we had to change Biguá’s style from training to a basketball that is seen elsewhere, with more possessions, more open shots, with another type of game. That could be seen during many periods of the championship and when it was played like this, it was the games that made a difference “, Varela said about the work of the Argentine coach.
On the little participation of the youth of the club, except Martín Rojas, he commented: “Our goal of including youth is always, in fact, one of our pride is to win this championship mostly with players from the quarry. But there are decisions that are technical that, from a certain point in the championship, you have to respect the work of the coaching staff and give it room, that’s why they came, to do their job, to carry that responsibility. I would be lying if I didn’t tell you that we would have liked more youth rotation. But the same on a day-to-day basis, if you look at the work they did during the year, the improvements they had this year working with this coaching staff and the level of players, it has been a year of a lot of progress for them. ”
“You don’t know how proud we are to be champions at home, we love our court. This is the place of my family, here I grew up, my children were raised. This is incredible, celebrating with my family, with my children and at home celebrating, is incredible “, the president finished saying excitedly.