The most exciting course of the Jairis

August 23, 2022 is a date that will remain etched in the history of Hozono Global Jairis. This is the day on which the sewer team kicked off their first participation in the highest category of women’s basketball: the Endesa Women’s League.

The pre-season for Lucas Fernández’s players started at the Helpia sports medical center facilities to later finish with the relevant medical examinations. The basketball players will wear shorts today for the first time to train on the court.

Despite keeping the fundamental pieces of the past promotion, the Jairista coach has eight new players. And it is that only Alejandra Sánchez, Rebeca Cotano and the Brazilian Erika de Souza will continue to be part of the Murcian squad, after the transfer yesterday of Izabella Sangalli to Córdoba of the Women’s Challenge League, and the termination of the contract of Bea Royo, who did not enter in the plans of Lucas Fernández. “You have to take advantage of this preparation time to get to know the players even better. That is going to give us the ability to see how far we can go as a group, ”the technician from Calzada de Calatrava (Ciudad Real) told LA TRUTH yesterday.

Fernández added that this time of preparation, in which the team will play several pre-season friendlies, will serve to check if the squad is going in the same direction. The Castilian-Manchego coach also made it clear that he wants to start working with the new players. «I have shared a team with several of the new additions and I know many of them from having faced each other in the Endesa Women’s League. We have looked for people who have experience in the category, people with high levels of work on a day-to-day basis and commitment and adaptation to the place and the club they are in.

After the first contact, and with the illusion on the surface in the Alcantarilla club, the coach of Hozono Global Jairis alluded yesterday to common sense in long-term goals. «I don’t dare to set a goal and I think that all coaches are cautious and we usually act with enough common sense. First you have to see the team. Still, I think Jairis will have a good balance and will be a team that can compete. From there we will see how we perform in the competition.

A priori, the Hozono Global Jairis, thanks to the board and its coach, has managed to bring together a group of players with extensive experience in the category, which is reinforced by the exciting youth of signings such as the American Ellie Mack. This center, who will share a position with Tamara Seda and Erika de Souza, lands in Spanish basketball from university competitions in her country, where she scored an average of 9.4 points and 4.8 rebounds at Oregon State. She is an agile player, with arrival and great rebounding capacity thanks to her 1.91 meter height.

six friendlies

In Alcantarilla they have their sights set on the first week of October when, in La Seu d’Urgell (Lérida), Hozono Global Jairis will make history playing their first official match of the championship against Cadí La Seu. But before this marked date in the calendar of all Jairista fans, Lucas Fernández’s girls will have to play up to six friendlies. The first will be the next one on September 10 against CAB Estepona.

The next four rivals will be teams that will be measured in the Endesa League. Thus, he will visit Ciudad Real to face the current champion, Perfumerías Avenida, who will arrive after being crowned champion for the eighth time in its history. Before the Ciudad de Alcantarilla Trophy that he will play against Valencia Basket, he will have to face Ficken Claret. The Murcian team will close the preseason against Innova-tsn Leganés and Movistar Estudiantes.