“We need to play.” This is the feeling that accompanies the pain of the players/” title=”Morvedre Basketball has 275 players”>Bàsquet Morvedre first team, after losing teammate Álvaro Fernández Almela a few days ago, who tragically died in a traffic accident.
After suspending training and last week’s game, the players and the coaching staff met again on Tuesday, when each expressed their emotions and needs before returning to shorts to play basketball.
The coach of the Verdet team, Josep Máñez, acknowledges that «the second leg was difficult due to all the wear and tear, but the players showed their desire and involvement. Everyone, and especially his brother, are looking forward to Sunday to play in memory of Álvaro ».
After consulting the family, who viewed him favorably, the club has appealed to all its players and their families so that “we can express our esteem for him. It will be something brief, applause, recognition of his family and a minute of silence », assures the veteran technician.
The match that should have served to provide this memory to the young player who had been at Bàsquet Morvedre for three seasons was against Vall d’Uxó, but covid cases in the Castellón team forced that clash to be postponed. Máñez explains that “we were clear that we needed to play and, after unsuccessfully trying to get a league match ahead of us to make it official, Meliana agreed to play a friendly at first” for which the club has called all its members to the 11:45 a.m. in the René Marigil pavilion.
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While a more formal tribute to the figure of Álvaro is pending, another memory for the young man will be to give his name to the Basketball Campus that Morvedre organizes in the summer. «He had the profile of a children’s educator -Máñez adds- and spent a year as a campus monitor, so we believed that it was another way of perpetuating his memory».
It should be noted that Bàsquet Morvedre is already dragging another tragic story in the figure of José Manuel Martínez Casanova, who gives his name to the Three Kings Christmas tournament after more than two decades ago he also lost his life too young.
