had to wait 13 years to hear the sound of the balls bouncing in the pavilion again and dust off the baskets for an official match. More once again has a senior team of baloncestodrawing on past roots but mainly focusing its gaze on the future.
He CB Vila de Meira returns to the courts this season and does it 31 years later that a club of this discipline was registered for the first time in the town, which shows that basketball is a sport closely linked to it.
That residue that was left over the years was what made the team rise again. “Xurdiu after the success he is having or 3×3 tournament which is done in the summer for the festivals, which is growing a lot”, explained the president of the entity, Diego Mendez.
And the summer competition also recovered after a long break two years ago and, after three editions, it has recorded a great participation successboth in the senior and grassroots categories.
In fact, this year marked 30 years since the first edition and it is common to see Juan Carlos Navarroformer professional basketball player with a great sporting career and an impressive record, who has family ties in the area.
“Those of us who were in the club at the time plus new people were getting back together, so we decided to get them together two generations. Thus, the team is made up of half more or less with the previous team’s squad and the other half with new people”, said Méndez, adding that they have 15 tokens of players “mostly” from Meira, but also from To Pastoriza y Lugo.
Goals
In addition to returning to the official competition, in which what they want is to “compete, be a little better every day and have a good time”, CB Vila de Meira works on creating a basketball school “with the idea that next year, or two years at the latest, we will have a base team, men’s, women’s or mixed.”
“The idea is to recover basketball for the base, to sow this sport again, but thinking of the children. So the fundamental objective is to be a showcase for the formation of a core team and I think we will achieve it because in the first game at home it was nice to see many children in the stands and playing in the baskets at half-time”, remembers the president of the Meirego club with excitement.
For now, at a sporting level, CB Vila de Meira competes in Third Divisionin the area that covers teams from the province of Lugo, in the region of Ferrol and the environment of To Coruña. In the first phase, the meirego set is framed in the group Awith eight other clubs in Lugo, rabid, I craftA Coruña, oak tree y spooned.
After the three-day dispute, CB Vila de Meira accumulates as many defeats, against the Sacred hearthe Basket Xiria and the CB Arteixo. “We hope to improve little by little”, points out Méndez.
In the Third Division, but in the group Ctwo other teams from the area also compete, the Mobile Service CB As Pontes and the Grupo Pelé CB Terra Chá City of Lugo. Both faced each other this weekend on the third day, with a 75-69 victory for the people from Vilalba.
