After beating Anaitasuna (45-26), the Blaugranas visit Bidasoa this Saturday (4:45 p.m.) on the first day of the ASOBAL League
The big news for Barça is the presence on the list of the young goalkeeper Filip Saric, son of the legendary export goalkeeper Daniel Saric.
This Saturday the first day of the ASOBAL League will be played almost completely despite the fact that the competition began de facto last Wednesday with the overwhelming victory of Barça in the Palau against a weak Helvetia Anaitasuna by 45-26 in an early match of the tenth day due to Barça’s participation in November in a new edition of the SuperGlobe.
With that note, the calendar has provided perhaps the most complicated displacement of the league tournament for Carlos Ortega’s team on this first day. This Saturday at 4:45 p.m. the champion of the last 13 ASOBAL Leagues will visit Bidasoa Irun in an Artaleku that will be one of the great occasions after selling out on Wednesday.
In a course marked by the ‘cuts’ that motivated the departure of pivot Ludovic Fàbregas and by the very serious injury to Domen Makuc in the Doboj Tournament which has left the team with the Catalan Pol Valera as the only central defender pure, the Blaugrana team has already won with authority this season the Catalunya Super Cup (47-29 against Fraikin Granollers in the final) and the Iberian Super Cup (38-44 against FC Porto).
The young pivot Javi Rodríguez is doing very well
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The big news on Carlos Ortega’s list is the young Filip Saric, only 18 years old, son of Daniel Saric who made history in the seven seasons in which he defended the Barça shirt between 2009 and 2016 with two Champions Leagues under his belt. (2011 and 2015). The coach has rested Emil Nielsen and the starting job will obviously go to Gonzalo Pérez de Vargas who will sign in 2025 for THW Kiel. Will the young goalkeeper have any minutes?
Also traveling is Ian Barrufet, also with an illustrious surname, who will occupy the left wing alongside Hampus Wanne until Aitor Ariño is recovered. On the local side The young Gorka Nieto has assumed the captaincy after the retirement of the emblematic Julen Aguinagalde and among others, the experienced Chilean pivot Esteban Salinas (from Fraikin Granollers) and the promising left back Tito Díaz (CIVITAS Guadalajara) have arrived.
One of the best news of these first weeks of the new season has been to check how Haniel Langaro is back at full strength after the serious injury which he suffered right after the World Cup break and which made him miss almost the entire course. The left back managed to cut the deadlines and reappear in the Copa del Rey… but he was not physically prepared.
Langaro is at his best again after his injury last year
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“After the injury it took me a bit to come back and above all lose my fear, but now I feel very well, I have no discomfort and I want to help the team as much as possible. The team is doing well after winning the Iberian Super Cup and I am optimistic,” commented the Brazilian international before the match.
“Playing in Irún is always difficult for us and the stadium is full every time they play against us. I think that right now There is no better possible game than playing against Bidasoaalthough we are clear that it is going to be very complicated like every time we play there,” added a motivated Langaro whose ability to break rival defenses at specific moments is very much to Ortega’s liking.