Imortal Basket Club will compete next season in Proliga (the second basketball division in Portugal), after becoming National Champion of the 1st Men's Division, and the objective is clear: to ensure maintenance. The rise to the Portuguese Basketball League is something to think about «in the long term».
These are statements by Rui Gago, vice president of the Albufeira club, to Sul Informação. “We are organizing the season and everything is moving forward. We depend on some support that we are finalizing», he explained.
In addition to the Câmara de Albufeira, which supports Imortal Basket through a sports development program contract, there are some "new opportunities" for sponsors to appear, according to Rui Gago. This is important because Proliga is a division that "incurs a lot of costs at the federative level", he said.
Taking into account their good performance, the team was received, on the 16th, by Carlos Silva e Sousa, mayor of Albufeira, who said it was «a joy for Albufeira to be represented by athletes with this quality, who raise the name of the team. by achieving exceptional results'.
«We ended the season with the icing on the cake, by winning the game that gave us the national title [against Académica de Coimbra, by 73-64], the passport to the promotion of Division and qualification for Proliga, which it was our goal”, said Luís Modesto, coach of the senior team of Imortal Basket Club.
«We have invested a lot in the training of our athletes and we want the team to continue to grow and be a reference in the training of these young people, both regionally and nationally, so that we can have teams at all levels, even the seniors, the conquer titles», highlighted, in turn, Jorge Guerreiro, president of the club's board of directors.
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