A figure of Basket Villeneuvois has just passed away at the age of 88. Arrived from Spain in 1939 Augustin Cabréra and his family will put down their suitcases in Villeneuve-sur-Lot near Romas. A youth…
A figure of Basket Villeneuvois has just passed away at the age of 88. Arrived from Spain in 1939 Augustin Cabréra and his family will put down their suitcases in Villeneuve-sur-Lot near Romas. A youth where very quickly will come the time of learning and sport. Titin will choose basketball and will be alongside Diop in the great team of the late fifties. An incredible address in a hall that is too small, where everything Villeneuve jostled on Sunday afternoons. Victories over Villerbanne, Mulhouse, one of the great hours of Villeneuve sport.
It was in Sainte-Livrade that Augustin Cabréra created his electric motor repair workshop, where neighboring Villeneuvoise shone with its industrial companies, blessed hours for winding. His commitment to his basketball club will be that of a particularly invested leader. Manager of the first team in the eighties, with the arrival of the first Americans, Rodney Young, Jim Graziano, Fred Pipper, the time of François Montalvès, Jean-Michel Demont, Jean-Noël Lassus or Mathieu Bézo.
A last tribute on Friday
Linchpin with Etienne Courtine and Maurice Lang for the construction of the Descartes room, with an inauguration opposite the neighbor Agenais, in an atmosphere of madness. The road to the rise in National 2, the third National level at the time, would not be long. The years passed and Thierry, his son, would take up the torch of the family business, which would become, with his partner, Matelec Service.
The hour of retirement ringing, the vagaries of life will make him find his love of youth, a former Villeneuvoise, with the first name of Augustine, it cannot be invented. This retirement, he will spend it near Anglet on the Basque coast, but his last home will be in Villeneuve-sur-Lot, where he will rest in the family vault.
An opportunity that the world of Basket Villeneuvois will not miss to pay him a last tribute, this Friday, February 4, at 2 p.m., in the Sainte-Catherine cemetery.
