The Fundación Aliados is not too lucky this season because, when it finally counts in its ranks the Israeli Peleg Salzman (who joined the Valladolid team at the end of last week), it loses one of its main references on the field, Adrián Pérez, who will undergo surgery to remove his gallbladder in the next few hours.
An extremely important absence for the group led by José Antonio de Castro, and even more so in a trip as complicated as the one they face this weekend, both for the trip itself and for the rival, a Gran Canaria that occupies the second position in the wheelchair basketball honor division and who shows great strength, which will allow him to fight for ambitious goals.
Salzman has just arrived and is therefore still far from the form required by such a demanding category, while the other recruit this year, the Canadian Westley Johnston, continues his adaptation to the purple team, more slowly than expected. In addition, players of great importance to the Aliados Foundation, such as Maxi Ruggeri, have lowered their performance in recent matches.
For its part, the BSR ACE Gran Canaria has the Dutchman Twigt and the Americans Jorge Salazar and Rose Marie Hollerman, who play at a very high level, which makes them the undisputed pillars of the island team, alongside the South African Nortje, the North American Jorge Sánchez or the Spaniard Ángel Hernández.
It so happened that the Fundación Aliados could not resume the competition in the new year, since the day before against Amiab Albacete was postponed due to the appearance of several Covid cases among the visiting team. The team in the purple box passed the obligatory tests before each match, the results of which were negative in all cases, so the only confirmed defeat will be that of the Argentinian Adrián Pérez.
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