He Coliseum of A Coruña has become home this year to the Leyma Básquet Coruña in its debut in the highest category of national basketball. But before the season ends, another team will play at home in the multipurpose Herculine.
This is not a play on words to announce the return of some massive rock band. It is the return to the city of the acclaimed Harlem Globetrotterswho will step onto the A Coruña parquet next May.
It is planned that, immersed in their tour of Spain, they will make a stop in A Coruña on May 16 to provide the people of A Coruña with their characteristic basketball show with their tricks and skills as protagonists. It will be their return to the Herculean city, where they already made a stop in 2023, also immersed in their ‘World Tour’.
But to remember the first visit of the Globetrotters You have to go back almost 70 years in time. Already known worldwide, it was in August 1957 when they played their first match in the old bullring of A Coruña.
But his visit was a longing for the A Coruña public, who spent years dreaming of seeing that great team carrying out their mischief on the hardwood. This was reflected in the pages of The Galician Ideal in july 1953. They talked about the exploits of the “world famous” Globetrotters after passing through Barcelona in previous days “with their new show”, which they assured that in it, sport “meets art.” “It is a shame that La Coruña has to be content, once again, with seeing the greatest figures of world basketball pass by so closely. “when now more than ever, the possibilities of bringing them are magnificent,” noted the article published in these pages, criticizing the claims of the then alma mater of the team, Hail Sapersteinas “very affordable.”
Crowded weekend
Adding this visit of those who in the 50s were classified as “little tricks of rhythm and acrobatics”the Coliseum will complete a weekend full of activity.
And the fact is that, if the Globetrotters visit the Herculino multipurpose facility on May 16, they will be a kind of appetizer for what is to come a day later, since the May 17he Leyma Básquet Coruña will receive on the parquet of the Alfonso Molina campus at Morabanc Andorra in one of the last games of the Endesa League season.
But it will not be the only activity of the weekend, since just 24 hours after the match between A Coruña and Andorrans ends, the parquet will become a dance floor so that the Herculean public can enjoy the only concert that Chayanne will occur in Galicia, the May 18with tickets already sold out.
