Karpenko receives praise from three of the capital’s best basketball clubs: Movistar Estudiantes, Zentro Basket Madrid and Pablo Laso Academy.
So far in the 2023-2024 season, the great work that Nicolás García Karpenko has done in the cadet team IGGA GROUP CBSP 08, in the junior team CBSP 06-07 of Club Baloncesto San Pedro and in the U15 men’s national teams of Málaga and Andalusia, has not gone unnoticed by the rest of the teams in the province of Malaga, Andalusia and Spain. The great evidence is that, at least, three of the best teams in Madrid already have him in their sights.
A player of his projection does not go out every day
The Andalusian champion, winner of the Andalusian A8 Cadet Men’s Team Championship 2023 with the Malaga Selection Team, has received praise from the Club Estudiantes de Baloncesto, Zentro Basket Madrid and Pablo Laso Academy youth teams. Very interested in the player, they have invited Karpenko to train for several days in Madrid with his teams.
The three teams in Madrid that follow Karpenko
Pablo Laso Academy
It is a high-performance educational and sports institution designed for basketball players from around the world who seek to reach their maximum potential. Founded in 2023 by the legendary basketball player and coach Pablo Laso, legend of the ACB benches, historic coach from 2011 to 2022 of Real Madrid and current coach of Bayern Munich of the Basketball Bundesliga. The academy has begun its first season with the aim of training the young promises of world basketball. To achieve this, it has first-class facilities and a coaching staff made up of coaches selected by Laso himself.
Club Estudiantes de Baloncesto
Called Movistar Estudiantes for sponsorship reasons, it is a basketball club founded in 1948, based in Madrid, which has been training young people and nurturing Spanish basketball for 76 years. Several runners-up finishes in the League, Copa del Rey and dozens of qualifications for European competitions guarantee its men’s team, but if something stands out in this institution as a great hallmark, it is its youth team. Estudiantes currently has a thousand male and female players. Many of their youth players have joined the national team, either on the court or on the bench, such as Antonio Díaz Miguel, Fernando Martín, Alberto Herreros, Aíto García Reneses, Sergio Rodríguez, Felipe and Alfonso Reyes, Juancho Hernangómez, Darío Brizuela, among others. . Four players from the student academy have also reached the NBA. Starting with the first Spaniard to play in the best league in the world, Fernando Martín in the 80s. In the 2000s, Sergio Rodríguez. And more recently Lucas Nogueira and Juancho Hernangómez.
Zentro Basket Madrid
Better known as Zentro CB or ZBK Madrid, it is a basketball club, founded in 2012, with headquarters in the north of Madrid and youth teams. In just over a decade of existence, the club has become a hotbed of good players and is already among the best in Madrid.
IGGA is a company committed to sports and official sponsor of Club Baloncesto San Pedro.
