The new season is starting in the domestic league at the weekend. Our team will begin their campaign on the home court of NKE-FCSM Csata, who have got talented Hungarians as well as international players on their roster, from 7 pm on Saturday at Ludovika Aréna.
Even as rookies last year the team from the capital had big plans, which brought them a 7th place in the regular season. However, they weren't able to keep that spot in the play-offs against PEAC-Pécs and finished 8th. With a one-year experience behind them they would like to make another step forward and earn a EuroCup Women spot. To achieve this goal experienced 30-year-old Euroleague and WNBA player Emma Cannon could be of great help, to whom head coach Krisztián Tursics and his coaching staff clearly assigned a leadership role on the team. They could also easily build on the talents of fellow American 191 cm's tall Megan Gustafsson, as well as Zala Friskovec, the rising star of Slovenian basketball who is barely even 20 years old, and already made herself a name in senior basketball. From the Hungarian core Réka Lelik will be an important player, since she has made it to the European championship with the national team! We can be sure that they will give a hard time to their opponents this year as well.
Our team has had a successful pre-season. As head coach Dávid Gáspár said "Our strengths and weaknesses that we have to work on have shown. We have done valuable work, according to our plans, we'll see where that will get us in a real competitive game." In this period we were still missing our American international player, but Briann January has also arrived on Wednesday making our roster complete. She will need a couple of days to adjust for sure, but she has joined in the work on Thursday.
As it was stated by the board of our club on the Media Day on Monday the Hungarian league keeps getting more and more competitive year after year, but we mostly have to concentrate on ourselves and keep doing the hard and high quality work that has led us to success in past seasons. Our main goal for this season will be to overcome ourselves, which we are aiming to fulfill with a talented and well-prepared head coach, Dávid Gáspár and many young players on the roster. We want to make progress patiently, practice by practice, game by game, in which we have to always give our best. To quote our team captain Zsófia Fegyverneky: "I am sure we'll have a lovable team! We will carry on the perspective, the hard work, professionalism, that characterized us in former years! We are eagerly waiting for the season to start!"
Before the game against Csata Debóra Dubei and Aleksandra Crvendakic stood in front of our cameras, with whom we also took a look back on the pre-season.
The game can be followed via live online statistics at the official site of the Hungarian Federation.
Sopron vs. Csata DSE
2 games/2 wins
197 points scored/113 conceded
Games in the last season
Sopron Basket – NKE-FCSM Csata 93-55
NKE-FCSM Csata – Sopron Basket 58-104
Because of the SuperCup game on Tuesday our next home game will take place at an unusual time, on Friday from 6 pm, in which we host BKG PRIMA NATURA Szigetszentmiklós
A jövő keddi Szuper Kupa mérkőzés miatt szokatlan időpontban, pénteken 18 órakor kerül sor a következő hazai bajnoki mérkőzésünkre, melyen a BKG PRIMA NATURA Szigetszentmiklóst fogadjuk
The board of our club has great experience in managing difficulties, but we are facing an especially huge challenge in terms of functioning due to the energy crisis, as well as on a professional level, since Courtney Vandersloot is for now unable to join our team due to personal reasons
Klubunk vezetésének nagy tapasztalata van már a nehézségek menedzselése terén, de most különösen nagy kihívások elé nézünk a működés tekintetében az energia-válság miatt, illetve szakmai vonalon is, miután személyes okok miatt Vandersloot Courtney egyelőre nem tud csatlakozni a keretünkhöz