2023-08-16 18:36:00
Noa López with the kit of the Spanish team ASSIGNED
The 15-year-old player competes with the Spanish team in an international Junior NBA tournament
16 ago 2023 . Updated at 6:36 p.m.
Lugo basketball talent is present from this Wednesday in the other part of the world. The player from Sarria, Noa López Tallánthey premiere to their 15 years out of Spain with the national team in Abu Dhabi. Compete in an international tournament organized by the Junior NBA in the United Arab Emirates. The woman from Sarria traveled ready to take advantage of a unique moment that may never happen again.
Noa López has been playing basketball for almost ten years. He started at six at CB Sarria, where he stayed until last season when country from the Sarrian quarry to debut with the Ensino de Lugo. Despite being a first-year cadet, he played with the team from the capital in the categories cadet, junior and even senior. This same year, after having been Galician champions, they participated in the Spanish Club Championship with the Ensino junior team, which was held in Huelva.
But Lpez’s experience on the field does not stay local. Practically since he started playing, since he was eight years old, he was also part of the Galician basketball team. In addition, she was the Galician sub 15 champion in the 3×3 championship with a team made up of teammates from other Galician clubs.
With the Spanish for the second time
Last year was the first time she was called up with the Spanish team. It was in Valladolid, where she played a friendly tournament against the Portugal team. At the national level, she had already participated in the Spanish sub 17 3×3 championship, which was held in Palma de Mallorca.
The sarriana continued to climb in basketball and went from friendly to competing this time in an international tournament. He landed this week in Abu Dhabi with just turned 15 years old to compete with the Spanish U15 Team against six teams from around the world, three European and three from the Middle East. is the first time that Noa Lpez plays outside national borders, so she was very excited and has the clear objective of enjoying the opportunities day by day. The Abu Dhabi tournament began this month and will run until the 19th.
It is a competition organized by Junior NBA. Teams from England, Germany, Spain, Qatar, Lebanon and the United Arab Emirates participate. Part of the tournament will be the matches between all the teams, but there will also be an All Star with the best representatives of each team, as well as a triple contest and another skills contest. Noa López is willing to participate in all modalities, although the decision will depend on the technical team of the national team.
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The sarriana traveled accompanied by her family, who joins her friends and also the entire CB Sarria quarry as well as many residents of the town, to show themselves very proud of the achievements that López has been achieving almost since he began his basketball career. She shares her passion for the sport of basket with her parents and especially with her sister Hers, who also already has Galician championships behind her.
Focusing on basketball has been a decided bet for Noa Lpez, since it was not the first sport she practiced. She played soccer in Sarriana and in the Friol Women’s Soccer Club. At the same time, she combined the grass with rhythmic gymnastics at Club Xirandela, in Sarria. Of course, once she put on her basketball boots, she was clear that hers were the courts. Being called up to play in Abu Dhabi has been an important leap in her career, but the Sarrian woman already shows herself wanting more.
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