The Federal Basketball League is coming and on the way to February 23, the day marked for the first date, Independiente de Neuquén appeared in society. With new faces, Andrés García’s team will try to fight at the top and repeat the good production of the PreFederal, where they reached the semifinals.
Manuel Navarro, Emanuel Paredes, Aaron Bono, Emiliano Juárez and Tomás Guychaleo, who returns, were the bets of the Rojo leadership, which lost two renowned players for the category: Agustín Sánchez and Pablo Almendra.
The reinforcements are added to Carlos Paredes, Enzo Nieva, Pedro Martelli and Josué Santillán, who did not play for PreFederal due to injury, but has been at the club since August. The squad is completed with the youth players Ramiro Nieva, Juan Cruz Eberle, Máximo Platé, Agustín Lombardo, Lorenzo Martín and Julián Martelli.
Fewer names, more balance
Habitué in the third step of national basketball, Rojo is among the favorites. With the arrivals of Bono and Emanuel Paredes, it is clear that renewing the perimeter became an objective. It was a deficit in recent seasons and now they are betting on this new base, to enter the rotation with Enzo Nievathe youth player who took over as coach last season.
It is clear that he will feel the losses of Almendra, top scorer in the last four Federal Leagues, and Sánchez, decisive in the last tournaments, first with the Roca shirt and then with that of Rojo. However, The squad has experience in Chiqui Paredes and Manuel Navarro, while Guychaleo performed in his previous time at the club and can be an important piece in this new process.