The Es Viver Sports Center will host, for the second consecutive year, the Ibiza International Tournament that will pit the Spanish, German and Polish U16F teams in a triangular tournament that will also have many parallel activities to celebrate basketball week. feminine, known as ‘Eivissa Dona Bàsquet’. The second deputy mayor of Ibiza City Council and Councilor for Sports, Catiana Fuster, and the coordinator of ‘Eivissa Dona Bàsquet’, Estitxu Ibarretxe, presented this Monday, at the Casal d’Igualtat, the second edition of this program with the that the city of Vila becomes the epicenter of women’s basketball.
«As Councilor for Sports, it is a pride to present this event with which the Ibiza City Council collaborates for the second consecutive year. The Sports Board has fought hard to carry out the ‘Eivissa Dona Bàsquet’ and we already have the Es Viver sports center ready to experience a second edition of this unforgettable sporting event. I also want to thank the FBIB for this new opportunity to offer us to become hosts and host a tournament of this relevance. It is a luxury to be able to have this sport and basketball festival in our capital. “I am convinced that it will be, once again, a very positive experience that will serve to promote women’s sport, since the Spanish U16F team will not only come to compete, but to leave a new indelible mark on our city,” said Fuster.
Ibarretxe, for his part, highlighted that, “as in the first edition, the ‘Eivissa Dona Bàsquet’ program focuses on promoting sport, basketball, but above all women’s sport and women’s basketball. The central and most relevant event is the International U16 Women’s Tournament that will be held on December 6, 7 and 8 at the Es Viver Pavilion.
The three matches will be free, with prior ticket purchase and will be broadcast on Eivo TV. This triangular is the icing on the cake of a week full of basketball in the municipality of Ibiza and that will have the Spanish national team led by Moses Fernández and Jaime Medina concentrated on the island for several days and that will allow for different activities. ‘Eivissa Dona Bàsquet’ started last Sunday with the celebration of a 3×3 children’s and cadet tournament and will continue with different training activities such as the one that allows Ibiza coaches to attend some Spain U16F training sessions and share impressions with the selectors or the presentation from the technical coordinator of the Spanish Federation, Anna Junyer, about 3×3 basketball. In the end there will be eight days full of basketball in the municipality of Ibiza.
Ibiza City Council has announced that in the coming days there will be information on how to get tickets for the matches of this tournament, which, in any case, will be free, but which will have to be requested in advance to facilitate control of the venue’s capacity. Es Viver Sports Center.
