The women’s basketball club also triggers the illusion

“This is a team that is here to stay & rdquor ;, says the coach Isaac Fernandez. “The fact that Barça is back in the Women’s League is important for us, for the club itself and also for women’s basketball”, remarks the player from Vigo Martha Cinnamonin his third season with the team.

The Barca It is the visible face of the link with the Basketball Santfeliuenc (CBS) that the Barça club intends to maintain in order to continue growing in the future and at the same time link with its most brilliant past. Two women’s basketball league titles (2003 and 2005) had the azulgranas colours.

“We are excited but we have to go step by step. It is a new project and it has to grow with the philosophy that we share with Barça, a team with Catalan DNA, with people from the base to carry out a long-term project”, assures the president of CBS, Jose Antonio Daban.

The jump to the Endesa League is also an economic challenge because it means moving from a semi-professional category like the Challenge League, in which the majority of players combine basketball with studies or work, as is the case of the international basel Nuria Martinez, to professionalize the workforce. CB Barça’s budget in the Challenge League is around 250,000 euros. The average in the Endesa League can be over 600,000 euros or in cases such as Uni Girona and the Perfumeries over a million.

“You have complied, now it’s our turn & rdquor ;, the Barça vice president assured them Edward Romeu at the reception of the team at the Sant Feliu town hall for the promotion in which he took that relationship for the future for granted. ”We are working on the subject, but that is the idea”, admits Juan Carlos Navarro, the general manager of Barça basketball, who has an important link with the team. He not only gives his name to the Sant Feliu pavilion where the team plays, but his eldest daughter, Lucy He has already begun to show his head in the first team, after training in the quarry. “We have not given him anything. He has a great sports education, a good hand and gestures that resemble those of his father & rdquor ;, admits Isaac Fernández.

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So much Lucy like his little daughter elsa that plays in the cadet, are the result of the work of the 18 women’s teams from Santfeliuenc’s youth academy, which feed that link with Barça, in which it names, facilities or medical services, and on March 6 it took one of the key matches for promotion to the Palau Blaugrana, in what was a public success with 4,000 people. “It was motivating to play at the Palau, but at the same time complicated. When you play with this shirt, the teams want you more, but we know what it means to be from Barça”, he says Martha Cinnamon. “That game made it clear that basketball is interesting and that Barça for women is interested”, says the coach.

After two years staying at the gates of promotion, the Barca CBS He has achieved his objective in a spectacular season, with only three defeats in 29 games, in which above all he overcame, in the final part, the hard blow of the illness of Ainhoa ​​Lopezone of his reference players. Ainhoa ​​made public that she suffers from Hodgkin’s lymphoma, the same one that affected Carla Suárez, and that she will be away from the courts for several months. “It was very hard to assimilate. But at the same time, when we got over that bad experience, it helped us get ahead & rdquor ;, he admits Cinnamon. “Ainhoa’s character, how strong and cheerful she has been the best psychological help for the team”, Isaac Fernández points out about his player who traveled to Madrid last weekend to be with the team at the time of promotion and who celebrated with all a long-dreamed-of conquest.