Spanish National Team Basketball: Sergio Llull leaves the Spanish team and closes a unique was | Basketball | Sports

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Goodbye, goodbye to an era. A unique stage closes in the Spanish male basketball team. The Balearic escort announced on Monday at age 37 his goodbye to the national team and with the number 23 the last great survivor of the best generation in history disappears. After the withdrawals last summer of Rudy Fernández and Víctor Claver, Llull kept the thread alive with the legendary legacy of the Gasol brothers, Calderón, Navarro, Ricky …, the team that led Spain to eternity. Llull’s decision to hang the selection shirt and not go to the Eurobasket of this summer, from August 27 to September 14, leaves Sergio Scariolo’s group without the last great captain.

“I am nervous, I would prefer to be with the ball with six seconds and one below,” Llull began. “It has been an honor, an incredible trip. I have always tried to leave my soul and I have also left some part of my body. I have been fortunate to coincide with an unrepeatable generation, my referents, I have been privileged and tried to help transmit the values ​​of the family, effort, sacrifice, teamwork, always more important the ours than the self. Now it is time to give way to the new generations,” said Llull, Spanish Federation in Alcobendas for the living history of the National Team, past, present and future: Juan Carlos Navarro, Marc Gasol, Ricky Rubio, Sergio Rodríguez, Rudy, Claver, Jorge Garbajosa, Felipe Reyes, Alberto Herreros, Carlos Jiménez, Fernando San Emeterio, Quino Colom, Willy Hernangómez, Joel Parra, Santi Aldama, Juan Núñez, Hugo Gonz. Abalde …

The collection of stars sitting in the first rows of the auditorium was the best sample of the greatness of Llull and the loved and respected one that has been in the locker room. It was precisely he who coined the family nickname to define this group. “Without our union we would not have won so much. We have enjoyed and that has been one of the keys. My legacy is that I always gave everything to win, I left everything I had,” said Llull.

Llull debuted with the absolute team on August 14, 2009 in a duel against Cuba in Gran Canaria preparatory for the Eurobasket of 2009. It would no longer get off the group of the elderly and that summer would conquer the first of its seven medals with Spain in 173 international matches: European gold Service was the meeting against Canada in Lille (13 points and four assists) at the Paris Games on August 2.

The march of an explosive player, full of character and without fear of playing the latest possessions, deepens a generational relief that places the 2028 Los Angeles Games as the great goal after 2025 and the 2027 World Cup. Of the selection that planted face to the United States in the unforgettable final of the London Games only resists active Serge Ibaka in addition to Llull. With the pivot outside the national team for a long time, Llull was the only representative of the eighties who continued to go to the family’s call. His withdrawal of the team definitely transfers leadership to another generation: Álex Abrines (born in 1993), Alberto Díaz (94), Darío Brizuela (94), Willy (94) and Juancho Hernangómez (95) … Santi Aldama (2001) is already present as a lighthouse of the next batch and men like Sergio de Larrea (2005) ask for strength.

Llull leaves the selection to give way to those who arrive behind and also to grant a breath to some legs with many kilometers. This course has already played 74 meetings with him (1,251 minutes), only behind the 75 of Tavares and Abalde’s 76. The club renewed him last July for one more course and the player’s intention is to prolong that contract and thus reach the 20 seasons in the White House since his arrival from Manresa in 2007. Llull continues in Madrid, Llull leaves with Spain, and an unforgettable era closes.

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