Mauricio Codocea
09/03/2021 19:04
Clarín.com
sports
Updated 09/03/2021 19:06
Inside he had decided long ago.
Almost since
Federico Susbielles
, the former titleholder and whom he openly supported, stepped down from the race for re-election in the presidency of the Argentine Basketball Confederation, back in December 2019. With the maturity of his 57 years, he walked through this end of the journey knowing that the end would come after the Olympics.
Now, only, it became official:
Sergio Hernández, the
Sheep
, will no longer be the coach of the National Team.
The technician ended his contract after the Olympic event in Tokyo and, in fact, had "stretched" their bond when the Games were postponed a year, but the deadline was clear and it happened.
There will be no renewal.
The announcement was made official on Friday afternoon from the official CAB networks and there the coach wielded his reasons.
“I go away happy and calm.
I enjoyed it a lot, but it seems to me that there are times when the stages are fulfilled and it is time for a new process to begin
.
I don't have so many reasons to leave the National Team, but in my career I always had the intuition of when to stop and start something new.
And following her is something that has given me results.
Today I feel that I have to take another path and that a new coach must begin a new stage in the National Team, ”Hernández said according to the statements reproduced by the official website of the mother entity.
Hernández greets Scola in the Olympic Games match against Australia.
It would be the last for both of them.
AFP photo
"
This is not traumatic at all
because the important thing here is the National Team, it is not me.
And the Selection belongs to no one - added Oveja-.
I am leaving the position of national coach, but I will continue in another.
So, I don't consider myself to be leaving.
I will continue to be a part of something bigger, of which I am just a small piece. "
Fabián Borro
, the president of the Confederation, highlighted the figure of Hernández and appreciated having worked in cordial terms beyond that old preference of the DT, even with a "suspension" of the link so that the coach could indulge himself in directing to
Zaragoza
of the ACB League in Spain and then return to close the circle in Tokyo 2020.
“
We will always be grateful to him
for his enormous work.
Since we took office we accompanied him and
each time we quickly agreed
.
First we extended the contract to Tokyo, when the Games were postponed we did it again;
At the moment that Sergio had the great opportunity to direct in Spain, we released him and, at the end of his commitment, we resumed the agreement to complete the Olympic cycle.
Now a new challenge opens up for him and for us, seeking to keep Argentine basketball among the world elite ”.
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