Valencia Basket, nominated for best One Team project of the season by Euroleague

03/07/2017

Valencia Basket has been nominated, along with four other clubs, as the best One Team project of the 2016-17 season for its work with Proyecto Hiedra, an initiative promoted since 2002 by Cáritas.

 

It is the first edition in which Euroleague is going to evaluate specifically which is the best project of the year, for which it has selected five finalist teams. Next to Valencia Basket, have been nominated FC Barcelona Lassa, Real Madrid, Anadolu Efes and Zalgiris Kaunas. The winner will be announced in September.

 

This is not the first One Team project of Valencia Basket, but the fifth, developed during the last 4 years and aimed at improving the society that surrounds us with the basketball vehicle.

 

What does Euroleague value of the Valencia Basket project?

In the words of the competition itself, “Valencia Basket focused on developing a network with powerful social media content. They demonstrated what is possible if all available channels are used to spread the One Team message, leaving Valencia fans in no doubt about the positive role their club plays in the local community promoting wellness and inclusion for marginalized teenagers”:

 

What was our fifth One Team project?

Throughout ten sessions, the fifteen young people belonging to the Ivy Project have learned through the training the rules and basics of basketball as a vehicle to know the values ​​of sacrifice and responsibility that are derived from the organized exercise, to learn how to use Sport as a formula for personal development and as a stimulus to channel their steps so that they can find in the practice of any sport activity a way to grow as people.


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