Martín Zuazquita: «We’re one step away, both categories are in top leagues» | OneFootball

The president, Martín Zuazquita , shared his thoughts on the club’s current institutional situation, its sporting moment, and the challenges they face day by day.

The festive event brought together a large crowd that showed its support for the institution’s work. “The truth is, it’s an immense joy. Today, the club lunch was a total success, with more than 550 people,” the club leader highlighted, while also stressing the backing of the community and the current state of the different sports: “The sporting side is also delivering, so that makes us even happier”.

As for the competitive outlook, Zuazquita gave a positive but ambitious assessment of the club’s main sports. “We’re one small step away, and we have both of the club’s biggest federated categories in the best leagues in the area,” he said.

A club with a comprehensive sports offering

Although football and basketball are the main pillars with the biggest draw, the president went over the range of activities taking place at Alumni: “We have taekwondo, volleyball, competitive roller skating—which is doing very well too; in fact, today they’re competing in Reconquista—and artistic roller skating, which started with a group competition, so we’re also very happy about that because it’s going to help the discipline grow”.

Regarding football, he recalled the team’s recent prominence after winning the Liga Esperancina a year and a half ago and competing at the highest level: “We were also very confident in football about achieving something important. We came very close, but it slipped away against the champion after losing on penalties, and they proved to be the best team in the league, so we believe we’re up to that level”.

On the basketball side, the goal is to earn promotion to A1. After narrowly missing out in the first half of the year, the focus is now on the final stretch of the season: “In basketball, we just missed the promotion final to A1 in this first semester, but we still have two promotion spots left at the end of the year, and I think that’s more important because it allows you to spend a whole year fighting to stay in the division”.

The call for support in difficult times

To conclude, Zuazquita emphasized the effort being made by the board and the need to maintain social support in order to face the institution’s future.

“Keep helping, keep supporting, because in times of crisis like the country is going through, it becomes very hard to sustain a club with the infrastructure Alumni has. So to the public in general and to our members, please keep supporting us, come closer to the club to help and to keep making this grow even more”

This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇪🇸 here.