After the Endesa League 22-23 schedule was known this Wednesday, the Monbus Obradoiro will start the pre-season on Monday, August 15, which, as pointed out by the coach of the Santiago team, Moncho Fernández in the last hours, It will be somewhat “atypical” due to the celebration of Las Ventanas, the FIBA ​​​​America Cup and the Eurokasket. A scenario, supports the coach of Compostela, which will condition the work of the team because it will not be able to count on the internationals who travel with their national teams. “We approach the return to work with great enthusiasm, as every year. We are going to face a shorter pre-season than usual and in which the whole team will spend a few weeks working together,” Fernández pointed out.

So far the listing del Obra for the 2022-23 academic year adds ten players. Fernando Zurbriggen, Philip and Thomas Scrubb, Edgar Vicedo, Álvaro Muñoz and Álex Suárez continue from last season’s squad. And this summer, four incorporations have already been closed: Marek Blazevic (Zalgiris Kaunas), Rubén Guerrero (Unicaja de Málaga), Marcus Paige (French Orleans) and Leo Westermann (Monaco). However, in the first week of work, the Scrubb brothers will not be present, summoned by Canada for the World Cup qualifying matches.

The Photo of the current squad foresees that the club’s sports management will have to make at least two new recruits: an outside player and a four, that would complete a roster of 12 players.

Monbus Obradoiro will start the ACB League on Thursday, September 29, at 7:00 p.m., in Sar, against Casademont Zaragoza. And at the start with little rest, with three days in ten days, in the second round of the championship one Heavy weights: Real Madrid, current champion of the tournament. The match will take place on Sunday, October 2, at 12:30 p.m., at the WiZink Center. And to close this first series of three games in just over a week, Obra will play again at home on Saturday October 8 (6:00 p.m.), against a recently promoted team, Bàsquet Girona.

“But there is still a lot for that, you have to concentrate to start training well, have all the players, play the pre-season commitments…”, commented the Obra coach after the draw of the calendar .

And it is that before the start of the competition in ACB, the Monbus Obradoiro will already face a friendly match in the second week of the preseason. The appointment is next August 26, at 8:00 p.m., in the Fontecarmoa pavilion, facing FC Porto, within the framework of the XXV edition of the Vilagarcía Basket Cup Helena Mariño.

YOU WILL BASK. Likewise, in the preparation program for the start of the Endesa League, its presence also stands out, also in Vilagarcía, in the seventh edition of the EncestaRías Tournament. In addition to Obra, Coosur Betis, UCAM Murcia and German EWE Baskets Oldenburg will take part. The format will be the usual with semi-finals and finals on two consecutive days. On Friday, September 9, the Coosur Betis-UCAM Murcia (7:00 p.m.) will be played, followed by the Monbus Obradoiro-EWE Oldenburg (9:15 p.m.). The following day, Saturday 10, the third and fourth places will be played at 6:00 p.m. and the grand final at 8:15 p.m.

And the following week, on September 15, the first official test will arrive, in the Galician Cup, which will be held in Ourense. In the semifinals, Obra will face Básquet Coruña. Breogán-Ourense will be the other crossroads on the way to the final.

After the ACB calendar draw, Moncho Fernández highlighted the importance of pre-season work, taking into account that “the level of the League increases every year”, and positively assessed the fact that his team has started the competition playing Sar. “And unlike the last seasons, we are going to be able to come away with a full clubhouse, which is great news,” said the Santiago coach.