Valencia Basket women's team, champion of the 3x3 tournament in L'Alqueria with Red Bull

14/08/2021

The first adventure of L'Alqueria del Basket organizing a 3x3 tournament with Red Bull has come to an end with great success. The Valencia Basket women's team became champion, in what is the second trophy since the creation of this new modality in the Club, while the boys fell in the semifinals. Onil 3x3 and Valencia Basket get the grand prize of € 1,500 and the ticket to the prestigious Red Bull Half Court world tournament in Moscow.

 

Three days of high level and spectacle in L'Alqueria del Basket with Red Bull and the collaboration of Midea Frigicoll and Luanvi with public included. In Saturday's finals the capacity was reached with 600 people in the enclosure, 450 of them were fans.

 

The tournament was presented with a total of 45 teams. Thursday saw the start of the men's qualifiers, where the amateur teams fought for one of the four places available to take part in the men's group stage the following day, where they would compete against the professional teams. Among the qualifiers, a team formed by Víctor Luengo together with his son and two other U18 players.

 

On Friday, the Valencia Basket men's team came into the game and went like a whirlwind to qualify for the quarterfinals as first with three wins in the group stage. A day in which already amazed the audience with a performance of urban dance with Xuk and a BMX Flatland show with Viki Gomez.

 

On Saturday morning it was the turn of the women's group stage, where the taronja set gave no option and also qualified as first for the quarterfinals.

 

In the afternoon came the finals. The Valencia Basket men's team made their debut, who got the pass to the semifinals after beating Globetorpes 21-17 and the girls certified the double winning 21-7 to Why not. However, the boys would not get later the prize for the final, losing in semis against a warrior Be Goat-Barcelona Sants by 21-17. The women's team did get the ticket to the final thanks to a great win against RBA 3x3 by 19-14.

 

After the semifinals came the most awaited show with the battle of cocks between Chuty and Gazir, two internationally recognized freestylers, in one of the most popular moments of the tournament. Then came the finals. Onil 3x3 beat Be Goat-Barcelona Sants in a very tight match. The female taronja showed their host condition to beat Women 3 Basketball and close the tournament in the best possible way. 


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