Rudy, Villacampa, Pesic, Penya and Estudiantes enter the Hall of Fame FEB

The former basketball players Rudy Fernandez, Jordi VillacampaLucilla Passover and Ana Belén Alvaroand coach Svetislav Pesic are some of the new members of the fifth class of the Spanish Basketball Hall of Fame, whose induction ceremony took place tonight at the Seu Vella of Lleida.

Santiago also appears in the relationship Fernandezthe Club Juventut Badalona and the Students of Basketball Madrid, in the referee and contributor categories, respectively, while the former American player Joe is added in the 'international' section Arlauckas.

These protagonists of Spanish basketball will thus join the 64 members who preceded them in the four previous promotions.

Eliza Aguilarpresident of the FEBin charge of opening the event, assured that “it is not easy to summarize what this Hall of Fame means but we can summarize it with that all of you, those who are already there and those who will be, are a very important part of our history.”

And he had words of affection for each of the nine new members, whom he thanked for their “contribution to Spanish basketball.”

Lucy Passover admitted that it was “very exciting” to be among those chosen, Santiago Fernandez He assured that he is “indebted to basketball” that made him “as a person”, just like Ana Belén Alvarowho said that this sport was his “school of life”, while Pesic He stressed that entering the hall of fame is “a great honor” for him and Arlauckas He stated that it was a “very special moment” for him because Spain is his home.

Ignatius Trianapresident of Studentscommented that they were “a schoolyard team that fortunately we will continue to be,” and also expressed the honor of coinciding with Joventut because they have the same values, while Juan Antonio Moraleshead of the Catalan club, assured that “without a youth academy, basketball has no meaning.”

Villacampa He expressed that “this recognition is like closing an emotional circle that takes me back to the day I entered the Aussias pavilion for the first time.” March” and noted that he was “very happy to be in the same promotion as Rudy, to whom we tried to give everything to have a great career, and of course the Joventut”.

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Rudy Fernández put the icing on the cake as Spain's most legendary player, highlighting his affection for his sister Martenpresenter of it, and remembered when he told his father that he wanted to be called Jordi Villacampa he told her that Rodolfo Fernandez and it was his mother who put the Rudy.

Likewise, he stated that “with the Selection They have been two unforgettable, successful decades, all the titles are very beautiful but I prefer The Family. The hardest moment to manage, in 2019, the Federation was by my side, it took care of me, Jorge Garbajosa, Eliza…”