last weekend, the Zuazo said goodbye to the Guerreras Iberdrola Leaguethe highest category of state female handball. He did it With a defeat against the Costa del Sol Málaga (29-20), one of the favorites to take the titlein an encounter in which the Barakaldarra team was already descended to do what it did. But, despite all this, the Zuazo said goodbye to the division of Honor with the High Head. Because The red and black team had to deal with the red lantern pressure from day 13 – and the regular competition has 26-, something very complicated to do when, in addition, you have the youngest template in the category. And, with 20.5 years on average, much debutant and one of the most humble budgets of the League, the management was always complicated to be seen on the edge of the precipice. The coach, Joseba Rodríguez, already known in Los Parasa as Haito, who was going to cost him to adapt to a division in which he started too tender: “We are going to take a couple of months still to see the best version of the Zuazo.” But this season LLiga Guerreras Iberdrola did not wait for anyone and, therefore, the Lasesarre Club will play the next campaign in the Division of Honor Gold.
It is not about sweetening a decrease, which is always bitter, but It is fair to say that Zuazo really improved with the passage of the days. Especially after the first round, when he already occupied the last place of the classification and, even more, in his last meetings as a team of honor. “We have endorsed the good level that the team has given in recent days. We have left much more. I am very happy with the work of the players. We could surely have given better, but it is a young and inexperienced team and has managed to face and regroup ”he acknowledged Haito Already after what was his seventh season on the Barakaldarra bench. And the numbers are right to the technician. In fact, three of the four victories that the red and black team got in 26 days in the final phase of the season-in the 18th against the Morvedre (23-18), in the 19th against the Beti-Eak (24-26) and in the 22nd against La Rioja (25-27). The other triumph was on day 5 against Gijón (22-17)-. Good triumphs although, in the end, insufficient to avoid the descent. Likewise, Haito congratulates himself on being able to put in trouble to important sets of the division: “We have fought face -to -face against very category rivals in this final stretch so hard, but it could not be. We say goodbye with quiet consciousness.”
Elevator team
In this way, last weekend the regular phase of the Guerreras Iberdrola League ended with the Zuazo in direct descent. That is to saythe manufacturing team will not continue in the highest category of female handball just a season after achieving ascent. And it is that the Barakaldarra club has become what is called an “elevator team”, the one that alternates promotions and descents season by season. Too good for gold honor, but not enough for the elite. And, after ten consecutive campaigns at the top, the Zuazo fell to the Second Division in 2022/23 to, in the following course, that is, the past, get a place again in Honor Division after overcoming several economic ups and downs. But it was a privilege that has now lost 26 games later. In this way, with the outcome already written with the worst of the finals, The Zuazo returns to the mud with the aim of leaving him as soon as possible, but with the need to rebuild the team again.
Low
Because the descent of Zuazo has returned even more attractive to his young man but already fiery template. In this way, Several names are already known that will not continue in the red and black factory next season, such as Nerea Gil and Maialen Orbañanos. The first already signed with the Atlético Guardés Mecalia for the next season with the purpose of strengthening the first line of the Galician team; While the Guipuzcoan side will dress the colors of a replaas Beti-Eak that secured salvation the last league day.
