The second season of Dario Brizuela At Barça it starts with an enormous challenge for the player: to be an important player for the Barça team in the Euroleague. Absent in Lithuania due to illness, Brizuela will begin the European season this Friday, October 11 at 8:30 p.m. (CET), against Alba Berlin in it Palau Blaugrana.
Last season, the Basque guard was able to demonstrate his quality in dribs and drabs, but this season, he hopes to have more opportunities that will allow him to exploit his game.
“My personal objectives are linked to those of the team and that is to win titles. I don’t intend to do anything in particular in any particular way. In the end I came here with very clear ideas and they were to win titles with Barça. It’s my dream since I was very little. I would like to contribute more because last year it was more intermittent, I have always respected him and I have never had a word against anything that happened. I want the team to perform as much as possible, and I think I can help. And you also have to understand that last year for me was a little more adaptation to the club, to the Euroleague, it was a very big competitive leap, but well this year I am more prepared, I know what I have to do, and try to help to for the team to win as much as possible,” commented Brizuela who x-rayed the mistakes made on the opening day, which resulted in defeat in Kaunas.
Darío Brizuela, in the preview of the match against Alba Berlin / Javi Ferrándiz
The mistakes of Kaunas, identified
“The season already started last week and not with the result we expected. The season is very long, you miss games many times, and now you have to be focused on the next game. We played at the Palau and we felt better there, but it is not going to be easier either because of the rival or because of playing at home, all the games are tough. In Kaunas we did not do a couple of very basic things well, which is 1 on 1 and the rebound. It is something that Joan insists on a lot and we have worked well in recent days.”
Brizuela has also highlighted the ease he is finding when working with his new coach, a Joan Peñarroya with whom he maintains a great relationship: “I like him a lot, he seems like a very normal person, with a sense of humor, which is very important. I love people like that and you work very well with him. We train hard, he has clear ideas and day to day life is easy. “He is a coach with a lot of experience, and so far it has been fun and easy, and I hope it goes well for us so that he can continue with us for a long time,” he explained.
Brizuela highlighted the great relationship of the dressing room with Joan Peñarroya, and his sense of humor / Javi Ferrándiz
Furthermore, the Barça ‘8’ also valued the adaptation of the players very positively. new signings, who are already integrated into the Barcelona family: “There is no one left out, they are very integrated with the squad, they understand very well what the club is, that the two competitions we are in are tough y that the ACB is not going to be a walk. They understand very well Joan’s idea of how we want to play and how we want to work every day, and it is being quite easy. “We are delighted with everyone.”
