It’s time for the truth. The League opens its doors for another season and Abanca Ademar presents its candidacy to be one of the leading teams from today. The Leonese do it as locals, although not in their usual fiefdom of the Sports Palace in León but in the neighboring town of Astorga and in its Sports Pavilion (6:00 p.m.) = in front of the Ángel Ximénez Puente Genil.
After a preseason marked by injuries and problems in being able to train in an adequate facility, the renewed Ademarista squad under the command of Dani Gordo will try to add its first points on a path in which reaching a ticket for Europe is presented as a challenge. priority. First place is a chimera given that Barcelona appears at another level. But in the battle of the ‘mortals’ the Leonese do not rule out anything. Nor fighting against other teams with a higher budget. The League throughout all the rounds will put everyone in their place and Abanca Ademar hopes it will be in the highest possible position.
And for this there is nothing better than doing it from the first day. Even more so if he does it as a local, even if it is just over 40 kilometers from his fortress, the Sports Palace. But in another scenario that they have already set foot on other occasions and in which they will at least have to risk the beans for the first two deliveries they perform as host team in the League.
The Leonese, after a preseason from less to more, chaining in the final stretch the titles in the Torrelavega tournament and the VI Castilla y León Cup in Aranda de Duero, want to lay the foundations for an ambitious sporting project from the beginning and to recover the privileged places in the League lost in the last two seasons.
Gordo hopes to be able to count on three absent players during the preparation, the captain Juan Castro, during the entire preseason and who would make his debut, if he does, tomorrow against the Cordobans and the Iranian goalkeeper Saeid Barkhordari and the winger Darío Sanz after missing the last appointments in those who beat Torrelavega, Bidasoa, Nava and Atlético Valladolid.
Those who will not be there are those also injured, Álex Lodos -with a long-term serious injury-, Marko Katic and Victor Fernández; Nor will the last two additions, from this week, be available for the Valladolid coach, the Leonese center-back Rodrigo Pérez Arce, who returns to the team from his homeland after four seasons, and the Angolan full-back Adelino Pestana, known as ‘Amarelo’.
Two former players of the Ademarista team are active in the ranks of Ángel Ximénez Puente Genil, the Greek full-back Theodoros Boskos and the Portuguese pivot Tiago Sousa who, after the Leonese team did not execute the clause for his renewal, opted to seek another destination in the Spanish league. And today they will be rivals in Astorga.
2023-09-10 09:15:35
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