History of the Real Madrid basketball

Angel Cabrera, created in 1922 the first basketball team in Castile. On November 19, 1930, inserted an advertisement in the newspaper ABC, to find volunteer players. The first players of this project would be: Hermes, Hoyos GutierrezCastelvi, Jenaro Lolive, Arnaiz, etc. The first tests were carried out in the field of Standard. In 1932 the club is officially founded.With football and consolidated, President Sánchez Guerra wanted to promote other sports that enhances the club. Basketball was born in Madrid, a sport that was eventually won over fans and becoming in one of the best letters of our organization beyond our borders. One of the key dates for the entity, is the arrival in 1952 of Raimundo Saporta, when the club met its silver anniversary ..Saporta was the entrepreneur of the basket, one of the most capable management and organization of the sport. Thanks to its knowledge, the club became the largest in Europe.At the time that governs basketball Saporta white, are achieved in the technical level, two names shone with its own name, Pedro Ferrandiz and Lolo Sainz. Ferrandiz is the undisputed number one in the history of European basketball, with 15 leagues, 14 cups and 4 European Cups, has a unique palm. It was the first to introduce the innovations of USA basketball and pioneer in the exchange with American coaches. He chose as his successor Lolo Sainz, and could not make better choices, because without reaching even to his successor, Sainz garnered an impressive bouquet of domestic and European titlesfor the section, in his thirty years connected with the white bench.The first matches of the club, playing in the Fiesta Frontón Alegre, until it opens Basketball Hall of Sports City in 1966, here you get the greatest feats. Later, with the basketball boom in the early 90's, the field is too small and passed to play in the Sports Palace of Madrid, sharing the pitch with the other Madrid club, Estudiantes.But the basketball enters a small and large pavilions crisis are almost impossible to fill, so the decision to return to the old pavilion, carrying out improvements that give rise to open on February 16, 1999 the New Hall, with capacity for 5,200 people seated and provided with all modern facilities. In the future will be known as Raimundo Saporta Pavilion.In the distant days of players like Brana, Arnaud, Negrin, Olives, Delete, etc, until today, our club has displayed the best national and international players. Among the largest, stands Emiliano Rodriguez, the great idol of the 60, who won 24 major titles in his career. emiliano excelled in a team triumphant, excels Ramos brothers, Luyk, Sainz, etc. Over the years, another player would make up the continental scale: Dr. Carlini, the best Spanish guard of all time and arguably one of the best in Europe. captained Madrid's second golden age with Brabender, Rullan Cabrera, Christopher, Prada, Iturriaga, Romay etc, players who gave the baton to a new and great generation of players like Biryukov, Llorente, Fernando Martin (the latter tragically died in traffic accident) and that among other achievements was the first Spanish player to participate in the NBA, the Trail Blazers team Portand.As foreigners have been many very good players who have acted on this computer: Hightower, Burgess, Fox, Aiken, Coughran, Mc Intrye, Walter, Delibaisc, Dalipagić, Petrovic (also deceased and player in the NBA) , Simpson, Jackson, Brown, Roberts, and more recently Savic, Arlauckas, Sabonis (now in the NBA) and Bodiroga.This is a short summary of all names that have managed to bring to the basketball section of Real Madrid at the top of national and European basketball, as evidenced by his impressive record: 27 leagues, 22 cups, (8 European Cups, 4 Cup Winners Cup, 1 Copa Korac, 3 Intercontinental Cups, 1 World Club Cup).