Rare is that after having achieved the five-time championship, a team is in a deep institutional crisis. But San Lorenzo, in this case, is the exception. Is that, after having consecrated for the fifth time in a row, the basketball team suffered some derangements and is trying to compose itself again to face the next season, in which apparently it will have very different expectations from those it had been aiming for five years ago.
This Thursday night, from San Lorenzo Primero, we had the opportunity to talk through Twitch with Carlos Prunes, a representative of athletes, to delve into the subject and understand a little more what the future of the discipline will be like from now on: “For ten days I have been having meetings with leaders who want basketball to continue at the club. There are 20 thousand members who, from the pandemic, are not paying the social fee and the income. The team is going to have totally different aspirations to those it had in the last years“, started.
The procedure for CASLA Básquet to continue to participate in the National League is not simple, but it can be achieved, according to Prunes: “From what they are telling me, little by little a direction is found and in the next few days the subject of basketball should be defined. San Lorenzo has a local debt that it will have to pay immediately if it wants to participate in the next LNB”, He added.
While in regard to Silvio Santander, the manager’s representative was not optimistic about his continuity for next season: “I doubt very much that San Lorenzo can continue to count on him, for an economic and sporting issue ”. Although, in turn, he ruled out that he would take command in another group within the local plane: “Silvio Santander is not going to lead any team in Argentina other than San Lorenzo. We will look for something outside. If not, he will continue to be part of the team’s coaching staff ”.
Finally, he gave his opinion regarding the organization that the institution should have in the discipline in the long term, so that a situation similar to the one it is going through does not happen again: “San Lorenzo will have to make a four or five year plan so that basketball can be maintained and not depend on any variable. Today there is no specific budget. There are many people from the club trying to get sponsorships “, and set a deadline regarding the definition on the subject:”Next week there should be a resolution because no more time can be lost from work“, Hill.