1986-87

The convulsive summer of 1986 in Valencia Club de Fútbol provoked the need to abandon the different sections that had nothing to do with soccer. The soccer team decided to dispense with basketball, which at that time was booming as it had just achieved promotion to the Primera B. The manager in charge of the basketball section, and basic for the new club to succeed, was Vicente Solá. The figure of Pipo Arnau emerges, who, knowing the situation, contacts Juan and Fernando Roig, as well as Paco Raga, to whom he offers the possibility of taking charge of the section.

During this first year, the Press Association, together with the brothers Juan and Fernando Roig, took over the sponsorship of the first team, the Press Association gave the team its name in exchange for the media coverage, renaming it Valencia Hoja del Lunes. In the presidency during this first year, Antonio Egea takes over, leaving Paco Raga as vice-president. And Valencia Basket, starts to roll, with the coaching staff formed by Toni Ferrer and Fernando Jimenez and playing in a place as emblematic as the pavilion of Mislata.

The promotion to the Primera B brings with it something previously unknown for elite basketball in Valencia: the presence of North American players. The first players chosen for the position are, inevitably, inside players. Howard Wood arrives, a very complete player for the time, with a limited stature but with a real arsenal of offensive resources. His participation is vital and the memory he leaves is so satisfactory that he will be required again a little later. Accompanying Wood on the inside is Canadian Ron Crevier, a 2'10 stopper who got his chance with the Chicago Bulls and Detroit Pistons before coming to Valencia.

The rest of the roster is eminently Valencian, all except Angel Farré, left-handed point guard and ultimately one of the most important players of the team. The point guard position was completed by Paco Guillén, although it was not unusual to see both of them on the court at the same time. At the shooting guard position we could see JA Lluch, usually accompanied at small forward by Leo Belloch, the first captain in the history of Valencia Basket.

Completing the squad were Víctor Pérez, Paco Pallardó, Javier Izquierdo and the current actor, Bruno Squarzia.

Valencia enjoyed, thanks to the promotion, elite basketball, and the increasing number of spectators who came to Mislata contemplated the birth of a team that would gradually grow. It was a season of settlement, of arrival in a tough league, in which they managed to stay. Once achieved, there was an important change in the presidency, Antonio Egea left his place to Fernando Roig, in a change that would bring another important change, the name of the team became Pamesa Valencia.