Marco Spissu hero of Zaragoza, now changes his future

Marco Spissu hero in Zaragoza. The former Reyer Venezia point guard was decisive in the last seconds of the match valid for the last day of the Liga Endesa, scoring the triple of salvation that allowed his Casademont Zaragoza to remain in the Spanish top league.

Down for almost the entire game against Río Breogán, Zaragoza needed to win and at the same time hope that one of its direct rivals would lose. In the final frantic seconds, with Casademont down by two points, Bell-Haynes intentionally missed the second free and served Spissu, who at the buzzer gave Zaragoza salvation with a precise 3-pointer that was worth the overtake and the 95-94 final. To relegate instead was Dreamland Gran Canaria, defeated by Valencia.

Now for Spissu everything could change: his name had been approached by several Italian clubs for a possible return to the LBA starting next season but now that in Spain they nicknamed him “the Savior” his fate could be completely different.

A season, that of Casademont, lived constantly on the brink of the precipice. The Aragonese club had already attempted to turn things around in mid-May by exonerating Joan Plaza, the Catalan coach who arrived on the red and blue bench last February 17, whose record had stopped at only 3 wins and 9 losses in 12 Liga Endesa matches. The technical leadership had then been entrusted to Gonzalo García de Vitoria, until then Plaza’s assistant coach, with Rodrigo San Miguel and Jorge Serna in the role of assistants for the last games of the season. A change that, in light of the championship finale, proved providential.

Among the Italian tracks that had been explored, the Fortitudo Bologna hypothesis had taken prominence in the event of promotion to Serie A then failed. In the background also remained alive the idea of a return to Dinamo Sassari.