laCopa ACB, ¿quién es Maite Zaitut? #RESPECT

Ya tenemos los 7 + Obradoiro como local en La Coruña de laCopa

A laCopa Pedro Martínez & Carles Duran y su Valencia Bàsquet como invictos y campeones de invierno. 17-0 es poca broma, RESPECT.

Forever para el bien del BA-LON-CES-TO español, Barça y Madrid hoy, con diferentes sensaciones de las que llegarán a laCopa.

Aito y el “nuevo” Granca + Sito y “su” Bilbao ya son los “nuevos grandes” a los que se les espera por siempre jamás en laCopa

El Coca-Cola Juenlabrada consiJe lleJar a laCopa con un par de coJones y una JOTA

Por último, laCopa volverá a ser laCopa, con Baskonia, su afición y su gran himno:

 

Maite Zaitut en euskera es TE QUIERO.

 

 

Steph

Tiros a una pierna, triples defendidos, manoletinas a aro pasado, entre piernas y detrás de la espalda sin moverse ni un metro, etc, etc, etc…..

Todo eso es hace el MVP de la NBA:  Stephen Curry

Si tu hijo se queja que no le dejan hacer los mismo que a Steph, les pones este video y les dices, “que haces tu durante el calentamiento de los partidos?”:

 

Pues eso. Entrena. Practica. Repite. Repite otra vez. Vuelve a repetir.

 

“Barcelona – Sarajevo – Zagreb – Barcelona”… and Drazen Petrovic memories

 

Second time in Sarajevo. Both times to scout european rising stars.

3 days, 15 games, 22 National Teams

Sarajevo was Winter Olympic city in 1984. With Yugoslavia war in 1992, Sarajevo was under siege for almost 4 years where 11.000 people were killed. You can check many documentaries about it in internet.

 

This time I will fly back home via Zagreb with time enough to visit Drazen

I have always had the feeling that because you are far away, you are young or you are just immature, that I did not care to historical facts that now are requiring my attention. The consequences of this tearing war has been one of those.

Once Brothers, by ESPN

The story of two “brothers”, Vlade Divac and Drazen Petrovic. Two amazing basketball players separated by a war…

ONCE BROTHERS 

 

 

Le Colisee du Chalon-sur-Saône

Le Trophée du Futur, torneig U21 de bàsquet francés que es disputa cada any entre els 8 millors equips de la lliga regular d’Espoirs. Els espoirs són els equips sots21 on juguen els millors jugadors joves de cada equip professional de la ProA francesa i normalment juguen abans que el primer equip.

Le Trophée du Futur is an U21 championship that is played every year in France where the regular season TOP8 teams of Espoirs compite. The espoirs is the teams under 21 years old of every ProA teams that usually play before the senior games every week.

Scouting their camino.

David Millar, a neighbour

 

The Scottish cyclist born in Malta lived also in Hong Kong, Biarritz, Monaco…

Born twice. Once as a cyclist in Malta and second birth thanks to special people like his Nicole, France or Jonathan Vaughters as a world leader in Girona (Catalonia) . Definitively he deserves what he has now, a happy father and husband, a true leader in cycling and a neighbour in Girona.

The book and the best ever lasagna in Vall del Terri

I met Nicole pursuing her to write about Girona greenways since she wrote so well for Catalonia Today magazine  I read the book after meeting Nicole and before having the honour to enter their home to have a gorgeous lasagna with my wife, Mars and @krls . After reading it I admire the pure cycling and even more David, the person and his family.

(Link at the book pic to buy it! Just buy it!!!!!)

The Observer said about “Racing Through The Dark”:

“The greatest achievement of David Millar’s book is that you believe in cycling again”

Great TV report

Time ago, I was lucky to be part of Informe Robinson crew when we did a report on a NBA star new life, that’s why I knew that a report on David done by them would be amazing…. I can’t stop watching  Informe Robinson about David story (click on pic):

 

Why Girona? because Girona emociona and Live Love Costa Brava 

Girona and Costa Brava is the paradise for cycling. The area is the hub for many cyclists and professional cycling teams. The weather, the best gastronomy lead by Restaurant El Celler de Can Roca , #1 in The World’s 50 Best by Restaurant Magazine , the geography where you can go from the sea to a 2.000 meters height in less than 150 km, and beautiful cities and villages has converted our location in one of the most famous places in Mediaterranean Sea.

Here is a postcard by Alex Rasmussen (Danish pro living in Girona) with Dan Martin  (half Irish half Catalan) and David

Here is a TV commercial created by Garmin with Team Garmin-Sharp Barracuda working hard around the globe all connected by Garmin around the globe, most of them in Girona and Costa Brava. 

 

The Happy Ending

David Millar: “Cycling was made of epic nature, very much human. It was not about results, it was about the journey” …………….and that was his journey, a huge Alpe d’Huez that he climbed and succeed.

I think that David doesn’t give a *****  what people say, but for sure not what these ones said:

Jonathan Vaugthers: “I admire him maybe more than anyone else in the world of cycling”

Christian VandeVelde: “I learnt from him to never give up”

Nicole: “.…………but it still has a happy ending”

Nicole and David are building a new home with a great cellar, in the same area where they live now, between “caminos”.

 

FinalFour 2013 London O2 Moments

Great city, amazing stadium, unbelievable tournament… I can’t understand the lack of fans. Expensive tickets? Yes but come on, this is Final Four!!!! Everybody should be here

Welcome to Camino

Camino. Spanish word that people can call the basketball action of “traveling”.  It’s  a violation of the rules that occurs when a player holding the ball moves one or both of his feet illegally

Travelling is also the movement of people or objects (such as airplanes, boats, trains and other conveyances) between relatively distant geographical locations

The term ‘location’ generally implies a higher degree of certainty than “place” which often has an ambiguous boundary relying more on human/social attributes of place identity and sense of place than on geometry.

Mediterranean Sea

Costa Brava