Virtually nothing is missing for the debut. In two exact weeks Hispano Americano is going to jump onto the playing field to take his first steps in the Argentine Basketball League.
a chronicler of New day He approached the morning practices at Tito Wilson to closely observe the work philosophy of the 37-year-old Cordovan who is in charge of managing the button panel to return (as soon as possible) to the elite of the Argentine orange sport. Intellectual anatomy of a bielsista aligner, guardiolista but above all, ” old-fashioned “: the culture of enhanced work comes from what he incorporated from his father. A working class hero (working class hero Lennon would say) who knows how to fight for a place at the big table. This is how it will be, what we see embodied in the parquet.
Yuti Da Silva chats with the giant journalist who is going to cover for the cooperative house. He acts as a prop for the professional basketball structure, and he does it very well. The club’s teacher has already adopted him as one more, for being so respectful and determined. “This teacher who came puts everything into him,” he tells us when questioned about how his hand comes, so soon after beginning to sow Hispanic minds with emotions. ” I see the team well ”, he completes it. He breathes work.
Cintra is in Cordoba, Argentina. Eight blocks by eight blocks, 1,200 inhabitants, the train station, a typical YPF, the fields delimited between soy and cattle, the club with the headquarters and the coffee table. From there came the coach who in a few days is going to launch a new illusion for Santa Cruz. While he was directing the Justiniano Posse Complex in 2012, and well before he turned 30, he declared to the cable channel of his town that he went to cover for him at his job in the Cordoba League, that “no one takes away the desire to study, train , read, feed the passion that I have inside”.
The journalist who interviews him wishes him to go far, to lead Atenas de Córdoba, the Greek giant still in force on the national map. Torre, a kid with responsibilities, does not stick his tail out of the syringe because “I dream big, without ever forgetting my roots.” Destiny takes him to red, missionary lands, the Oberá immigrant commonwealth, where he once again exceeds expectations and places his club above what was planned. It’s kind of his trademark. Go for everything, go with everything. Go prepared. Fate, that rogue who this time changes his clothes to glaciers, steppes and estuaries, brings him to Río Gallegos. His people (Cintra, after its Portuguese founder) saw the domination and tyranny of the football market that annihilates the other disciplines with its shadow, which is why Torre wears the club’s shirt on his skin wherever he goes. It’s “something more” than basketball.
Oruro is one of the highest cities in America. It is in the Bolivian altiplano, a mining region with harsh winters, where the apunamiento makes itself felt and complicates adaptations to sport; once in the garlic, the players fly. Sebastián Torre came to direct that city in 2021 with a light suitcase, eager to load the baggage of his coaching psyche with experience and emotions and, above all, compete in a medium that has grown a lot in recent times. He brought, a quality that makes us Argentines valued in all parts of the world where a ball bounces and different colored shirts are distributed between two teams: the insurmountable desire to win.
The only problem? Affections were a bit far from him, among them the milanesas with fries from his mother, or the pork matambritos with friends from the Mediterranean land. It went well for him in Bolivia, he endeared himself, his mentality was contagious. But the phone rang, and the feature, it said 2966…
The Celeste team, this year’s team, the one we see come together in the morning on Calle Alberdi, will surely have the seal of the Cordovan from Cintra, because it was also able to choose the personnel it considered necessary to face a long-awaited trip with many more smiles than long faces. Watered screens a lot, and drops, and turns, and is generous to pass the ball to the corners, the same as posted reading cuts by bottom. A pivot like this is key, with that spirit, and with the desire to work taking care of the basket.
Reyes He has one more year of experience, the same legs and desire, but he even looks more armed with a chassis. The Americans have resources, because Grantham manages the scoring records and Applewhite is a long Zone 2 killer. In a physical tournament where he adjusts a lot due to the lack of fencers, Fernandez Chavez and his trigger are dynamite. The boys of the club are to add, beyond an untimely flu from Braulio Soulés, he is seen plugged in, as well as Zuriel, the replacement for forward who is going to enter to play physical, defend, fight and punish help from the corners. Gets It is as spicy as a typical Mexican dish, it is full of goals. The journalist assumes that he can be a great lifter in the Rocha coming from behind.
The kids, well trained and motivated by this competitive coach, will be one of the keys to filling the field with identification. The workers Paz, De Miguel, Romero KNOW THAT THEY ARE NEWLY ARRIVED IN A SERIOUS STRUCTURE, and that it can become a springboard in their careers. They are in a great category, which is not so eager to stay and live in the Argentine League.
They have to defend as if it were the last ball, and attack as if it were the first shot of the tournament. THAT IS THE PHILOSOPHY.
The toughest rivals, by teams, plate and budget, will be a priori in the Southern Racing Zone of Chivilcoy, Parque Sur of Entre Ríos, Quilmes of Mar del Plata and Villa Miter of Bahía Blanca. It remains to confirm the fixture, but in principle they will be zones of 4 and interzonal matches until completing 14 games that will carry a drag of 50 percent of points, with the initial jump on October 15.
In the 2018-2019 edition, Sebastián Torre was able to form a team that played very well and won in San Isidro de San Francisco, Córdoba. With a record of 41 wins and 19 losses, only Cholo Vázquez’s Platense deprived him of a more than deserved promotion. The years that followed in his career were marked by complexity; that team that tamped rivals disarmed, the pandemic did its thing, wearing the 2019-2020, and the third year, with a very small budget and having many inexperienced players on the field, the 13-15 record made both understand parties that it was a completed cycle and that it was better for each one to follow his path. Always, but always, because of recommendations, because of market studies, the possibility of coming to work in the Deep South was close, latent. With Hispano they were sensing each other, finding out what the other was up to. One of his emissaries when it came to getting to work already came on an expedition back in 2021, Matias Lugones, and left a fantastic image, in the same tone as the current Seba: motivating, committing the group, fighting with passion, to make meat a goal. To be serious in all aspects of the structure, but also, very importantly, when to loosen up, when to relax and make a joke and smile.
THIS IS THE MOMENT WHERE COACHES ARE KEY, THE TIME TO SOW IDENTITY.
Tower constructions, in movement. If you are going to bring the curriculum, make it wanting to work.
