The Valencia Basket subsidiary in LEB Plata, L’Horta Godellawill try to speed up their chances of reaching the playoffs for promotion to LEB Oro with the boost of their latest signing, the Valencian foreign veteran Josep Pérez.
After standing out in the training categories of Lliria, Pérez signed for Barcelona, with whose first team he made his debut in 2011 under the guidance of Xavi Pascual, both in the Endesa League and in the Euroleague.
Globetrotter who came to play in Iceland
Separated from the Catalan club in the summer of 2014, He has gone through various teams of the LEB Oroand even signed for an Icelandic team. This November he signed a one-month contract with Andorra, which is in that second category and which was extended until February 20.
Last week, Valencia Basket reached an agreement with the player, which he announced through the Twitter account of L’Alqueria del Basket and that of L’Horta Godella himself. the contract is until the end of the campaign.
In his debut with the team Xavi Albert, the 28-year-old outsider started, played thirty minutes and scored 24 points taking on as many as 20 shots. Fuel top scorer for L’Horta Godella with one point more than Sergio Delarreawhich was the most valued.
The victory against FIBWI Palma, fifth in the Eastern group, allows the Valencia affiliate to speed up their chances of reaching the playoffs. L’Horta Godella is tenth with one win less than Gran Canariawhich is eighth and the last team to enter the playoffs Right now, although it is one of the teams with the worst balance in recent games.
The plague of injuries to the Valencia first team, including that of a millan jimenez that he was going to reinforce the subsidiary team when he did not have minutes with the group of Alex Mumbrúhas marked the season of Xavi Albert’s team, which will now try, in the four remaining games of the regular season, to gain a foothold in the playoffs.
