Jorge Garbajosa has been chosen as the new president of FIBA Europe, this Saturday, after beating Frenchman Jean-Pierre Siurat in the voting
He will now have three months to leave the presidency of the Spanish Basketball Federation
Jorge Garbajosa has been elected as the new president of FIBA Europe, this Saturday, after prevail in the votes to the French Jean-Pierre Siurat. With 45 years, Garbajosa will be the replacement for the Turkish Turgay Demirel in office and will immediately serve as leader of the European basketball body.
The new president of FIBA Europe He will now have three months to leave the presidency of the Spanish Basketball Federation of which he was in charge. For his part, Elisa Aguilar is the main candidate and favorite to pick up the baton from Garbajosa. The 222-time international and winner of six medals with the national team is the current director of Competitions for the Federation.
Jorge will leave office with the national team in a great moment and with a consolidated winning model. It must be remembered that the senior men’s basketball team is the current World Champion (2019) and Europe (2022) and ranks number 1 in the world rankingfor the first time in front of the powerful United States.
For its part, the women’s team failed to qualify for the last World Cup, but it is one of the favorites to win the Eurobasket, together with France, which will be held from June 15 to 25. In addition, all the training categories managed to reap great results and medals. In total, eight endings out of eight possible. Gold medals in the European under-20 men’s, European under-18 men’s and European under-20 women’s, and silver in the two World Cups under-17, the European under-18 women’s and the two European under-16s.
A leadership of the former Spanish international player who has made him win the votes to be the new president of FIBA Europe. Garbajosa was elected as president of the Spanish Federation in 2016 and later, re-elected in 2020. Now, new elections will be called to choose the next leader. Fair in the year in which the centenary of the Federation will be celebrated.