Inclusive basketball in the Canary Islands starts the 2024-2025 season this coming Saturday, October 26, starting at 9:00 a.m., in Los Llanos de Aridane, the Canarian Basketball Federation (FCB) reports in a press release. The Aridan municipality, he points out, will host for the fourth time a concentration of the ‘Basketball Without Limits Plátano de Canarias’ league, in “an essential event that will kick off the calendar and in which ten teams and more than 170 participants will be found. ”.
Four fields in the Severo Rodríguez Pavilion and its surroundings, he adds, will host the event in four stripes, in which the groups from Saltamos las Barreras Lanzarote, CB Isla Bonita, CB La Piruleta, Magec Tías Rojo, Magec Tías Negro, Toyota Adareva will participate. , CB Aridane, Ravelo-Apedeca, CB 7P Click Canarias and CD Activoz.
The ‘Basketball Without Limits Plátano de Canarias’ league, he adds, thus begins its second edition after the good reception in its first year, in which a total of 17 teams and 250 participants from all categories enjoyed the festive, open and sporting atmosphere. that was experienced in each of the 13 concentrations that were held in total throughout the entire Archipelago.
This year, he points out, “as a novelty, during the competitions the Includes Sin Límites project will be developed, which will create spaces where young people – with and without disabilities – can participate together in adapted sports activities, awareness workshops and support groups. An initiative that seeks to ensure that basketball serves as a vehicle to promote the social inclusion of young people with diverse abilities, as well as to prevent addictive behaviors in Canarian youth, improving their mental health and quality of life.
The fruit of sport, also inclusive
Banana from the Canary Islands, he adds, “as the fruit most consumed by regular sports practitioners (according to the recent study published by the UAX Rafa Nadal School of Sports, 81% of athletes consume banana when practicing some physical activity), it has been in 2021 working with the Canarian Basketball Federation (FCB) to make a space a reality in which athletes with intellectual disabilities and illnesses related to mental health can feel truly included and bring sports fans closer to the reality of their group. An alliance that has been consolidated in recent years through the Baloncesto Sin Límites league.”
After the concentration this Saturday in La Palma, he concludes, the competition will continue in November, in Tenerife, its calendar of meetings that, until the end of the season in June 2025, will bring inclusive sport closer to fans of all the Islands.
