Eurobasket: La Last Space of Scariolo | BALONCY | Deports

Everything cooked in a few days. On Tuesday, July 1, Real Madrid communicated Chus Mateo privately that he would not meet the year of the contract that remained despite winning six titles in three seasons and a week after sweeping the ACB. The next day, Wednesday 2, Sergio Scariolo offered the list of summoned for the Eurobasket of this summer, from August 27 to September 14, and despite the fact that his link was extended until the 2028 games. Another day later, Thursday 3, Madrid officially announced the dismissal of Chus Matthew and the following time the firm of Sergio Scariolo for three seasons.

The echo of those agitated days in early July has extended until the end of the month. The Spanish team concentrated on Monday to prepare the Eurobasket and this Tuesday appeared in a public event at the headquarters of the Endesa sponsor that revolved around the figure of the 64 -year -old Italian coach. Scariolo will close a golden cycle in this next championship that includes two stages on the bench (2009-12 and from 2015 until now) and eight medals: five golds, the four Europeans that Spain has in its history (2009, 11, 15 and 22) and one world (2019), an Olympic silver (2012) and an Olympic bronze (2016) and another continental (17).

“When I entered there was some skepticism, not being Spanish, entering a selection, not in a club, which is different,” Scariolo said Tuesday; “I have tried to do my best not only winning matches but that all the movement of Spanish basketball was up, with the work we have done with the quarry, to standardize the categories. That is the legacy of which I feel more proud, something that can stay more time beyond the medals. I am more proud of that legacy than of the rest.” On a tournament that (“for now, you never know”), the coach admitted that something will remove “inside.”

“Emotionally it will be special, but my work out is to do my job, lead this group, interact with the maximum possible normality. We must be faithful to ours The motivation to continue in this magnificent work still.

Spain will defend in a first phase in Limassol (Cyprus) and a final phase in Riga (Latvia), if classified, the unforgettable gold conquered in Berlin 2022. Scariol (A “very serious loss”, according to Scariolo) and the advance of the generational replacement. Llull’s resignation to the National Team has made this call into the first without at least one of the great referents of the last decades. Willy Hernangómez (31 years old, Barça player) and his brother Juancho (29; Panathinaikos) are the new captains of a team that looks at Santi Aldama (24; Memphis) as the new leader on the track and who places his most inexperienced line with Larrea and Saint-Supery’s rookies accompanying Alberto Díaz.

Spain will play six friendly preparation against Czech Republic, Portugal, France and Germany, these last two on two occasions, before its premiere in the Eurobasket. Four of the six pass to the round of 16. “We have always given an admirable and even envied version of how a basketball team has to be cohesive, with the ability to separate egos to function collectively and to invent resources to compensate for a physical or experience deficit. That we can promise it,” Scariolo reasoned.

After the Eurobasket, the coach will resume the activity of a club. Madrid has signed a contract for three seasons, an unusual duration in the White and unprecedented house from Ettore Messina in 2009 (neither Pablo Laso nor Chus Mateo tied for so long). The regulations now allow to combine the position of coach with that of a club, but the contract with the Federation required the Italian to be present in the qualifying windows and these sometimes coincide with the Euroleague days of the clubs. Scariolo had already assumed the two roles when he was an assistant at the Toronto Raptors and the main chief in the Virtus of Bologna, but this time he had to choose and pointed to Madrid. Before, the federative president, Elisa Aguilar, launched a final challenge: “I know you will want to complete your legacy. You have an important mission to meet.”