COMMUNICATION AREA FEB
The official announcement of Marc Gasol’s definitive retirement from the courts automatically turns him from a reference into a legend. Reference for his long and successful career with the Spanish National Team as one of the most dominant centers in world basketball of this 21st century, his NBA championship ring and his two titles with his only two clubs in Spanish basketball: FC Barcelona and the current Bàsquet Girona, with whom he played his last game and of which he has been president since its foundation. And legend for everything.
191 INTERNATIONALITIES AND 9 ABSOLUTE MEDALS
His brilliant career with the Senior National Team is summarized in 191 caps – including friendly matches – and 9 medals, won in 5 European Championships, 2 World Cups and 2 Olympic Games. In total, 4 gold, 3 silver and 2 bronze. Medals to which we must add the bronze won in 2001 in the European U16.
His debut at the highest level came in 2006 and was impressive. He joined the National Team’s concentration once the preparation phase had begun, as a guest, and ended up winning the place in the Spain that weeks later was proclaimed world champion, with a great personal performance in the final against Greece. Since then, he was a fixture for ‘Pepu’ Hernández himself, in addition to Aíto, Sergio Scariolo and Juanan Orenga.
STEP BY TRAINING
Because before making the jump to the Senior National Team, Marc also had experience in the Training Team. Specifically in three of them –U16, U18 and U20-, with which he participated in another 4 European Championships and won the aforementioned bronze medal.
In total, then, since his first international appearance, with the U16 in 2001, Marc wore the Spain shirt for 14 consecutive summers before his last two major tournaments, in 2019 and 2021, in a calendar already without absolute championships. summer too.
TITLES WITH CLUBS, AN NBA RING AND A HISTORIC ALL STAR
He trained in the FC Barcelona youth academy, with whose first team he began his professional career in October 2003, and that same season he was part of the League champion team.
And after two years at Akasvayu Girona, with which he won the FIBA Eurocup title in 2007, he made the big leap to the NBA. Like Pau, he started in the ranks of the Memphis Grizzlies (2008-2019), spent a season and a half with the Toronto Raptors (2019-2020) and ended up with the Los Angeles Lakers (2020-21). In total, he played 990 games in the American professional league, 99 of them in the playoff phase. With the Raports in 2019 he won the championship ring.
But probably the most historic part of his time in the NBA was experiencing an unprecedented event with Pau: the initial jump of an All Star Game between two brothers for the first and so far only time in the history of the NBA. It was in 2015 at Madison Square Garden in New York.
And after putting an end to his career in the United States, he joined the Bàsquet Girona team that he had founded years ago, and with which he won promotion to the Endesa League from the LEB Oro, of which in the 2022 season- 23 was the first player-president in its history. And he collaborated in achieving the goal of permanence.
It would be endless to add the long list of recognitions and individual awards that he has received throughout his entire career, but we can highlight the Silver Medal of the Royal Order of Sports Merit, awarded by the Higher Sports Council ( 2009).
MARC GASOL WITH SPAIN
- 2001 U16 Pre-European + European
- 2002 U18 European
- 2003 U20 Pre-European Championship
- 2004 U20 European
- 2005 U20 European
- 2006 ABS World
- 2007 ABS Eurobasket
- 2008 ABS Olympic Games
- 2009 ABS Eurobasket
- 2010 ABS World
- 2011 ABS Eurobasket
- 2012 ABS Olympic Games
- 2013 ABS Eurobasket
- 2014 ABS World Cup
- 2017 ABS Eurobasket
- 2021 ABS Olympic Games
YOUR 9+1 MEDALS
- B 2001 U16 European
- 0 2006 ABS World
- P 2007 ABS Eurobasket
- P 2008 ABS Olympic Games
- 0 2009 ABS Eurobasket
- 0 2011 ABS Eurobasket
- P 2012 ABS Olympic Games
- B 2013 ABS Eurobasket
- B 2017 ABS Eurobasket
- 0 2019 ABS World
ITS 191 ABSOLUTE INTERNATIONALITIES
INT YEAR CHAMPIONSHIP
9 2006 World Cup
9 2007 Eurobasket
8 2008 Olympic Games
9 2009 Eurobasket
9 2010 World Cup
11 2011 Eurobasket
8 2012 Olympic Games
11 2013 Eurobasket
7 2014 World Cup
9 2017 Eurobasket
4 2021 Olympic Games
89 2006-21 friendlies