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. Founded in 2018, it is the basketball section of the

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club, which was founded in 1959. The team entered the

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(LSB) for its debut season in 2018 season. The team's home arena is the Alexis Arguello Sports Complex, which was opened in 2017 and has a capacity of 8,057 people.

History

The first game of the team in the LSB was played on 9 February 2018 against Leones de Managua. In 2019, head coach David Rosario took over the team. Before he joined Estelí, Rosario had been the three-time

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.Real Estelí lleva su sabor boricua a la Basketball Champions League
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), 12 September 2021. Accessed 3 January 2022. In the same year, Real Estelí played in the inaugural season of the newly founded,

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. Real reached the quarterfinals. A year later, the team won its first LSB championship after defeating

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in the playoff finals. In April 2021, Real Estelí played in the Final Eight of the 2020–21 BCL Americas and hosted the tournament in Managua. The team managed to reach the final for the first time in club history, where it narrowly lost to

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80–84. Real Estelí qualified for the

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season, which was its fourth in a row. El Tren del Norte was allotted into Group A alongside Cangrejeros de Santurce and the

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. On 3 December 2021, the club repeated as LSB champions after beating Brunas de Jinotega in the final.

Honours

National

*Champions (4): 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 Carlos Ulloa Tournament *Champions (1): 2022

International

BCL Americas The Basketball Champions League Americas (BCLA) (Spanish language, Spanish: ''Baloncesto Liga Campeones de las Américas'', Portuguese language, Portuguese: ''Liga dos Campeões de Basquetebol das Américas'') is Pan-America's premier men's baske ...

*Runner-up (1):

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Liga Centroamericana *Winners (1): 2018

Players

Current roster

In international competitions

Champions Runners-up Third place Fourth place

BCL Americas

Below are all the seasons of Real Estelí in the

competition.

Notable players

- Set a club record or won an individual award as a professional player.
- Played at least one official international match for his senior national team at any time.
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* Delroy James *

Renaldo Balkman Renaldo Miguel Balkman (born July 14, 1984) is a Puerto Rican professional basketball player, who most recently played for the Mets de Guaynabo of the Baloncesto Superior Nacional (BSN). He also represents the Puerto Rican national team. He p ...

Alex Franklin Alexander Demetri Franklin (born July 11, 1988) is a Puerto Rican-American professional basketball player for Gigantes de Carolina (men's basketball), Gigantes de Carolina of the Baloncesto Superior Nacional (BSN). He is best known for his college ...

* De Jesús Jezreel * Javier Mojica * Christian Pizarro *

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* JC Fuller

References

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External links

REAL ESTELI profile
- Champions League Americas
Real Estelí Baloncesto
on

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