The announcement of the new coach spread like wildfire among HLA Alicante fans. Reuben? This can’t be! After eight agonizing days, the breaking of the FIBA windows brought a new tenant in Pedro Ferrándiz (the third to lead the team this season; Lucien’s fifth coach in five years: Rivero, García de Vitoria, Monclova, Caínzos and Perelló and Lozano ‘s interim period). After weeks of speculation (Paco García? Félix Alonso? Raúl Lozano? Sergio García?…), the club made the craziest, in every way the most unexpected, the most surprising and undoubtedly the better decision: to bring in Rubén Perelló. I returned to Alicante after twelve years. From loss to river. If we’re missing the epic, we’ll have it. Rubén was the last coach of the Luis Castillo era; He is the last coach to manage to take Lucentum to the ACB and the only one to achieve three consecutive promotions with a team in the same category. Gone are the rivalries that CB Almansa and I always won until we screwed up, and the good moments that Flexicar Fuenlabrada’s good season provided for the Majorcan coach together with Toni Ten.
