Unicaja continues with its preseason work and faces this weekend the Tournament XIV Costa del Sol, A national basic classic. The Greens open this 2025 edition in the Paco Aguilar Pavilion of Vélez-Málaga measuring forces against a historic European basketball, Alba Berlin (20:00 hours, 101TV), which This season will also rival the green at the Basketball Champions Leagueafter the Germans have decided to leave the Euroleague to enlist in FIBA basketball.
EL Alba is a European basketball classic and one of Germany's two most important clubs. In his record it has 11 Bundesligas, 11 Cups of Germany, 4 Germans from Germany and 1 Korac Cup. It is true that the best sports moment in its history does not live, but it cannot be denied that it is an enemy of much cache for the new green and purple project 2025/2026.
Summer second
It will be the second preseason meeting of Unicaja after the II Memorial Javier Imbroda de Melilla last Sunday, which ended with 59 to 77 victory against Melilla Basketball. An appointment, this Friday, against a much more demanding opponent and will be a good touchstone to know how the team is Less than two weeks of starting the season officially, with the dispute of the Singapur FIBA Intercontinental Cup.
The pavilion will be filled to the flag to see a Unicaja live in which the big doubt is to know whether or not the Dominican Chris Duarte will play, who is convalescent of an injury to the back. He is the only one of the new ones who has not yet debuted, since Xavier Castañeda, James Webb III and Emir Sulejmanovic already premiered last Sunday in Melilla.
A new Alba Berlin
Alba Berlin, which has a marked Spanish seal that printed from the bench The coach Pedro Calles and Himar Ojeda from the Sports Directorate, This season presents a template with many new faces compared to last season. Has up to seven additions: the bases Rejean 'Bogic' Ellis (American, from the Indiana Mad Ants of the NBA G League) and Jack kayil (German, from the mega bg Serbio); The American escort with German passport Sam Griesel (former telekom basket bonn); The American eaves Moses Woodformer Valley Suns of the NBA G League; The virgin islands wing J’Wan Roberts (ex of the University of Houston, in the NCAA); and the pivots Martynas Echod (Lithuanus, former Turkish Manisa) and Norris Prefident (German, from Oldenburg).
Of the players who continue last season will come to the Costa del Sol El Base tournament Bennet Hundtthe escorts Malta Delow y Jonas Matisseck, The eave Anton Nufer; The American power wing Justin Bean And also the German interior Nevio Bennefeld. We must mention that the Icelandic Martin Hermansson It is playing the Eurobasket.
The full is secured in Vélez-Málaga to see, for the first time in the province of Malaga, the new Unicaja project 2025/2026.
