Real Estelí Baloncesto is a Nicaraguan
basketball
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team based in
Managua
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. Founded in 2018, it is the basketball section of the
Real Estelí FC football club, which was founded in 1959. The team entered the
Liga Superior de Baloncesto (LSB) for its debut season in 2018 season.
Real Estelí'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
Baloncesto Superior Nacional champion with
Capitanes de Arecibo.
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Giovanny Vega ( El Vocero), 12 September 2021. Accessed 3 January 2022. In the same year, Real Estelí played in the inaugural season of the newly founded,
Basketball Champions League Americas. Real reached the quarterfinals. A year later, the team won its first LSB championship after defeating
Brumas de Jinotega 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
Flamengo 80–84.
Real Estelí qualified for the
2021–22 BCL Americas season, which was its fourth in a row. El Tren del Norte was allotted into Group A alongside
Cangrejeros de Santurce and the
Edmonton Stingers.
On 3 December 2021, the club repeated as LSB champions after beating
Brunas de Jinotega in the final. The following 2022 season, Real Estelí captured their fourth title.
Honours
National
Liga Superior de Baloncesto
*Champions (6): 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024
Carlos Ulloa Tournament
*Champions (1): 2022
International
BCL Americas
The Basketball Champions League Americas (BCLA) (Spanish language, Spanish: ''Liga de Campeones de Baloncesto de las Américas'', Portuguese language, Portuguese: ''Liga dos Campeões de Basquetebol das Américas'') is Americas, Pan-America's pr ...
*Runner-up (1):
2020–21
Liga Centroamericana
*Winners (1): 2018
Players
Current roster
Performance in international competitions
Champions Runners-up Third place Fourth place
Basketball Champions League Americas
Below are all the seasons of Real Estelí in the
BCL Americas
The Basketball Champions League Americas (BCLA) (Spanish language, Spanish: ''Liga de Campeones de Baloncesto de las Américas'', Portuguese language, Portuguese: ''Liga dos Campeões de Basquetebol das Américas'') is Americas, Pan-America's pr ...
competition.
Champions Runners-up
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
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Renaldo Balkman
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Alex Franklin
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Javier Mojica
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Melsahn Basabe
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D'or Fischer
References
{{Reflist
External links
REAL ESTELI profile- Champions League Americas
Real Estelí Baloncestoon
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Basketball teams in Nicaragua
Basketball teams established in 2018
2018 establishments in Nicaragua