Institute started in the best way the 2024/2025 season of the National Basketball League, with seven wins and one loss. Furthermore, the premiere in the Basketball Champions League Americason December 14 at the Sandrín against Franca. To take on the two competitions in the best way, the Alta Córdoba team added a player to its squad. This is the point guard from Córdoba, Luciano Guerra, who has just performed in El Calor de Cancún, of the Mexican League.
Since putting together this squad, with the continuity of six players from the National League runner-up team, coach Lucas Victoriano insisted on adding a point guard. The idea of the “Professor” is to run to the escort position for Nicolás Copello. “He’s my Lapro,” he once told The Voice the coach about Copello’s way of playing, similar to Nicolás Laprovittola. In this way, the man from Santa Fe will be a shooter in Albirrojo.
With Guerra, 1.84 meters tall, Instituto will have two players per position. At the base, Captain Leandro Vildoza and “Lucho” Guerra. As guards, Copello and Alex Negrete, as forwards Nicola Pomoli and Tomás Monacchi. And the four internal players, Bautista Lugarini and Lee Aaliya as power forwards, and Javier Saiz and Roberto Acuña in the pivot position. More Fausto Moussa, the U21 forward from the club’s youth team.
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In December. Institute in the Basketball Champions League: day and time of the games at the Sandrín
Albirrojo’s next match will be on November 29, at the Ángel Sandrín against Argentino de Junín and it will be the premiere of Guerra.
The background of Luciano Guerra
Born on September 2, 1997 in Colonia Caroya, Guerra trained in Barrio Parque and jumped to the National League in Mercedes Communications. He debuted in the elite on November 10, 2019 against Athens.
The Córdoba point guard played four seasons in Comunicaciones, from 2019/2020 to 2022/2023. He played 137 games with 8.3 points and 2.7 assists. Last season he played for La Unión de Formosa, with an average of 13.8 points, 4.3 rebounds and 2.9 assists.
