30.07.2012, 10:05
Ademar Leon with new challenges

After nine players left Ademar Leon, the club is trying to build a competitive team for the upcoming season

Ademar Leon with new challenges

One of the top Spanish teams Ademar Leon will try to keep their results on the same level in the upcoming season of the VELUX EHF Champions League and ASOBAL with two new goalkeepers. Since Vicente Alamo (F.C Benfica, Portugal) and Venio Losert (KIF Kolding, Denmark) left the team this summer the team management had to find an adequate substitution. This was not an easy job but in the last 10 days new players have been signed.

Inaki Malumbres (37), an experienced goalkeeper from CAI Aragon joined the third team of ASOBAL. The second newcomer is Croatian youngster Matej Ašanin (19). He will try to gain his first international experience after playing in the Croatian Premier League.

Over the past two seasons he was a player of the national champion Croatia Osiguranje Zagreb, he was alos loaned to RK Split and RK Varteks in this time. Ašanin (203cm/110 kg) is considered to be one of the greatest Croatian talents and only light injury prevented him from playing at the Men’s 20 European Championship in Turkey, where Croatia won the silver medal.

After his famous compatriots Mirko Alilović and Venio Losert (both are part of Olympic squad in London), he will try to continue the success in Leon.

Manolo Cadenas is back for Ademar Leon and the Spanish team has also signed a contract with 200cm tall line-player, Vladimir Vranješ (24), who came from the Bosnian team RK Borac Banja Luka (national vice champions). The team is slowly getting a new face for the upcoming season.

Players who left Leon

Rafael Baena (US Creteil), Venio Losert (KIF Kolding), Antonio Garcia (Paris Handball), Martin Stranovsky (F.C Barcelona), Adrien Di Panda (Saint Raphael), Alvaro Ferrer (BM Atletico Madrid), Juan Andreu (Hannover Burgdorf), Vicente Alamo (F.C Benfica) and Angel Montoro (F.C Barcelona) have left the club after the end of the season to find new challenges in their professional careers.

TEXT: Žika Bogdanović