Captain Albert Sàbat retires and becomes part of the technical team
The Llagosteren player, who becomes part of the technical team of the first team, retires after twenty seasons as a professional
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Saturday, 09 July 2022
Albert Sàbat Vila (Llagostera, 1985) retires as a professional basketball player after twenty seasons. Trained in the lower categories of Club Bàsquet Llagostera and Club Sant Josep Girona, Sàbat would make his debut at CB Girona of ACB in the 2002-03 season while competing for the linked team: ADEPAF Figueres of EBA. After adding minutes in the 2003-04 course, he would get the first team card in 2004-05, with which he would play 21 games.
After tasting the ACB, he would struggle as a player in the FEB categories defending the jersey of teams such as Lleida, Tenerife, Vigo, Vic, CB Sant Josep Girona, CB Canarias, Alicante and Tizona de Burgos. He would return to the highest category as a base for Club Joventut de Badalona and CAB Obradoiro, before concluding his stage at home: Básquet Girona. Thus, ascending to the ACB, he closes the circle where it all began after making his debut in an elite Girona team.
Albert Sàbat is no longer a player and captain of the first team after 97 appearances, a promotion to LEB Or, 2 MVPs of the Catalan League LEB Or, 2 Catalan Leagues LEB Or and a historic promotion to the ACB.
Sàbat will remain linked to the club, joining the technical organizational chart of the Girona Basketball first team. Next season, the season of his debut in the elite, the club will pay tribute to him at the Fontajau pavilion.
STATEMENTS OF ALBERT SÁBÁT:
“First I want to thank the club that allowed me to come here in 2019 and finish my career at home, with my people and my city.”
“I also want to thank them for allowing me to decide when to retire and I think now is the best time after what we have achieved.”
“I’m really excited, I’m really looking forward to starting this career and doing it here at home makes me even more excited with a coach like Aíto from whom I will learn a lot.”
