Marcelinho Huertas leaves Tenerife to play the Euroleague with Xavi Pascual in Dubai
Bombshell in the Endesa League: Marcelinho Huertasan absolute reference for the last eight seasons in Tenerife, will leave the Canarian team to join the Dubai Basketball and play Euroleague under the direction of Xavi Pascualwith whom he already coincided in Barcelona for four seasons, from 2011 to 2015. The news has been reported by journalist Chema de Lucas.
At 43 years old, the Brazilian will complete the rotation in the point guard position of a team that already has in its ranks McKinley Wright and Thomas Walkup. This season the Emirati team has been the great cheerleader of the transfer market and has formed a team that has the ambition of qualifying for the Final Four and fighting for the Euroleague title. To do this, they will have a Huertas who, although he has never lifted the top continental trophy, has played in the Final Four on three occasions: 2012, 2013 and 2014, all of them with FC Barcelona.
Orchards will leave Tenerife the same year in which another reference of the club, the coach Txus Vidorretaleft for Malaga after eight seasons (10 if we count his first stage). His replacement at the head of the team was Jaka Lakovic, another former Barça player. La Laguna Tenerife is second – tied with four other teams – in the Endesa League with a balance of five wins and two losses.
Just like the last seasons, Huertas’ performance is very high. He is the seventeenth player in the league with the highest average rating and leader of your team in that statistics (17.14 credits on average), in that of points per game with more than 14 and in assists with almost four per match.
He goes to a team that has started on the right foot in the Euroleague this season. March in the group of six teams that are tied in the second position of the classification with seven wins and three losses. Marcelinho Huertas He will bring his experience to the team and become the oldest player in the history of the Euroleague, surpassing the record of Albert Oliver, who played at 40 years old.
