Darío Brizuela He is one of the veterans of the Spanish team. Although he is still 30 years old, the generational change has left him as one of the referents of the locker room with the brothers Hernangomez o Aldama Being one of the players who gather the most experience with Space. He Eurobasket 2025 will be his fourth tournament with Spain after being one of the European champions in 2022 and defending The family in it World of 2023 and in the 2024 Olympic Games.
This time, it reaches the concentration of the Spanish team in Madrid aware that you can assume the role of 1. the unexpected low of Lorenzo Brown disrupted the plans of a SERGIO SCARIOLO that fully trusts the Barcelona player to make base. Real options are Alberto Díaz, Mario Saint-Supéry and Sergio de Larreabut Brizuela wins whole to direct the game of Spain from the group stage in Limassol (Chipre).
«What remedy, right? This year I had to play base. It is not my most comfortable position, but hey, I have felt more comfortable as the weeks have passed and well, if necessary, I think I am more prepared than other years. That is already the decision of the coaches. I will be prepared, ”Brizuela said on Wednesday in the Gold triangle After the second training session in Spain in Madrid.
On that reunion in the capital with his teammates, he said: «All good. Everyone is healthy, eager. We have two training sessions, little by little. There is time, not very much, that there is no time to prepare everything well. Introducing young people who are the important thing ».
Brizuela, 1 and Barça
«No, I haven't had a very deep conversation about what expects me. But I have been playing for him since 2019 and it is more or less what he wants, I know what I can give too. It is still soon, we have two sessions and we must see how the team works. He knows what I can do, I know what he likes to do. I don't think we get that deep conversation, it will not be necessary, ”he added about the slight change regarding the call of the games and what Scariolo asks for.
Brizuela, on how to supply the casualties of Rudy Fernández y Sergio Llull Inside the costumes: «Well, it is very difficult to supply those legends. It is not a matter of supplying it, but in some way transmitting what they did with the way we have. And well, for that there are the two brothers who have assumed the captaincy with all the weight that it has. And well, I know them very well from a very young age, I can say that they are doing very well until now.
«We are Spain, that is, it is not us who put the labels. We know the weight that this shirt has and it is a pride to have this pressure for any tournament, ”he explained about being favorites in the Eurobasket.
«Well, many things. It is a completely different template. The highlight is that I have played with the 15, that we are with 10 from here I have been playing years. That is always a plus and I think we have a way of seeing the equal basketball, we have a similar sports culture and that in any club is different, it is more difficult to collect those pieces that way and here we are already together. All we have left is to learn to play fast, in a very competitive way, and for that we have Sergio, who has demonstrated more than once he is very capable, ”he said, asked about the difference between the group of Spain and that of the Barça.
Brizuela knows that even the debut in the Eurobasket, Spain will run a background race with six stops in the form of friendly matches: «Today improve without haste, without anyone hurting and that's it. The goal is daily, session. Then we have a training in the afternoon and we will have to continue improving things, and that's it. The goal is to win, but we are still in July, we are not in a hurry to think about it ».
