"I am one hundred percent focused on this and I am eager to start training with the team, competing and winning the first title, but it is emotional because of my last two seasons," Pueyo said of a game that will open the Spanish Super Cup this Saturday at 5:15 p.m. and decide the tournament's first finalist, with Casademont defending the title it won last season.
"It means a lot to me to be here today. Arriving in a new city, at a new club and, above all, beginning a new chapter that I am really looking forward to," said the Spanish international, who held her first training session with the orange-clad side this past Monday after winning bronze at the World Cup. "Being here is a reward, and I know it is a great responsibility. Hopefully, everything will continue along the same lines as in recent years," she added.
COACH AND TEAMMATES
Pueyo will thus be reunited with Valencia Basket's new coach, Javi Torralba, with whom she previously worked at Siglo XXI. "We have a very exciting challenge ahead of us, and what I am most looking forward to is getting started, enjoying it with the fans, growing as a team, improving, learning and, obviously, meeting up with Javi again after so many years," said the Balearic guard, who will also share a team with Elena Buenavida, Raquel Carrera and Alicia Flórez, her national-team teammates at the World Cup, where Spain won bronze.
