THE SANDRA YGUERAVIDE BASECaptain of Spar Girona, announced this Friday its withdrawal from 5×5 basketball at age 40 and will focus on the 3×3 modality.
The Valencian player has affirmed in a video posted on the social networks he says “Goodbye to a part of basketball“.” But we still see each other in another: in which my life changed and extended my career until you win a medal at the Olympic Games, “he added.
Ygueravide has been champion and twice runner -up in 3×3 and last summer he got an Olympic silver in Paris in this modality. The veteran base thus puts an end to a stage in 5×5 basketball that has lasted “much more than I had imagined” and has been “proud of what was traveled in more than 20 years of work, the road and all the ups and downs.”
“It has not been easy, but it would not change a little of each experience“, Highlights in the video.” My head was saying 'enough' with 5×5, but the 3×3, in the end, is what has given me the most life in recent years since I started playing it. It has made me extend all this until I reached an Olympic Games And the idea is to be able to continue until it endures. “
Six different countries
Ygueravide began his elite career with the Casares ros and the perfumeries avenueamong other teams, and has also passed through Türkiye, France, Poland, Russia and Hungary, before returning to Spain for the military in the Lintek Gernika and Spar Girona.
In his record he has A title of the Endesa League, four titles from the Queen Cup and a Eurocup (2019)with Nadezhda Orembourg Russian. In 2023 he signed for Girona, who has thank the player for her “experience, leadership and passion” and for having been a “reference on and off the track.”
