It is possible that for the general public, the one that is about from time to time to the basketball to celebrate great victories of Spacethe names of the players of the Selection 3×3 They are not well known. Even for the people of the basketmore accustomed to players, they can be unknown. It is logical, in the male selection of Basketball 3×3 5×5 first level players do not play, but they are the best, collectively, in the 3×3 world.
Far are the day in those in the team of 3×3 of Spain The former ACB played Nacho Martínwhich achieved among other titles, silver in the European Games in Baku. Also Javier Beirán He gave the team luster and was even in the preselection of the team that went to Mongoliaalthough in the end he was not chosen.
And it is that the Spanish team of 3×3 are not just the four players of Ulán Bator. Spain, the Feb that works and does it almost perfectly, has been sculpting a discipline that began to give fruits with the girls (silver in the Paris and Gold Games in the European Cup) And now also with the boys.
In the February concentration thinking about the World Cup They were a good number of candidates and in May some more joined. From that exhaustive work, the quartet that has bathed in gold in Mongolia came out: Carlos Martínez, Diego de Blas, Iván Aurrecoechea and Guim Expósito.
The great world powers of 3×3 They have the advantage of having professional specialty players who are dedicated exclusively to playing 3×3. In Spain, both in boys and in girls most not to say all have to combine it with 5×5 and that is the great merit of the work of the Feb that, in this case, had an extraordinary team of players that gave its maximum level at the best time.
Carlos Martínez: Born in La Coruña on January 19, 1996. Formed in the Basquet Coruña quarry he was recruited by Baskonia in 2010. He debuted in the Euroleague in 2013-14 in a match against Olympiacos and a year later he would do so in the Endesa League against Joventut. He was later given to the Lucentum Alicante and there began his journey so now the first Feb and the second Feb.
From 2021 his idyll begins with 3×3, a category in which he begins to specialize. It is monitored by Feb because it acts in almost all categories of selection formation. Since that year 2021 he is regular in the 3×3 absolute selection participating in several championships. It is the 86 of the world basketball ranking 3×3.
Iván Aurrecoechea: Born in Madrid on November 19, 1995. This season he has played in Covirán Granada of the Endesa League. He was in 23 games playing an average of 9 minutes with 2.7 points and 2.1 rebounds per game. Before with the Granada club, with which he descended this year to First Feb, Aurrecoechea played at the Gipuzkoa, in the Movistar Students or in the Albacete.
The Madrid, formed at the Basket Torrejón, also had his American adventure in the NCAA, in New Mexico, where he played two years. In 2020, he signed his first professional contract in Iceland, at the þór Akureyri, with a means of 20 points and 11 rebounds. He was in charge of closing the final with a mate that is history.
Guim Expósito: Born in Barcelona on March 27, 1994. He arrives from the Second Feb, Club Bàsquet Santfeliuenc, a category that knows well. He has been in Second and First FEB teams such as Valladolid, Oviedo or Cornellá. He lived in two stages an adventure in Swedish basketball, Wetterbygden Stars (2017-2019) and Umeå Bskt (2020-2021). It is the 98 of the individual world ranking. It was the MVP of the championship.
Diego de Blas: Born in Madrid on November 5, 2000. Hero in the final with its 12 points based on baskets from the arch. Player last season of Melilla, in Second Feb, is one of the few who has decided to leave 5×5 to define 3×3 exclusively. It is 200 of the world ranking.
De Blas went through all the lower categories of Real Madrid and played with the Júnior team the EBA League in 2017-18 with Usman Garuba, Dino Radocic or Melwin Pantzar.
