Hello everybody! The Eurocup regular season is so fast this time! The first half of the regular season is already over, which means everybody is already anxious and nervous to see if all 24 teams are reaching their initial goals or not. I would like to blog about all those aspects that people don't actually consider but which are also part of the game for us: traveling and practice.

I told you all a few days ago that Kalise Gran Canaria travels around more than any other team in Europe, taking part in the Spanish ACB League and the Eurocup this season. Sometimes we even have to take three different flights to reach our final destination. Of course, our trips around the continent come with all kind of anecdotes, adventures and consequences, just like any other long trip. Playing in the ACB and the Eurocup meant that we travel around 120,000 kilometers per season. That is the same distance as going around the world THREE TIMES! It is easy to say, but not that easy to do!

Furthermore, there are weeks in which we leave Gran Canaria on Friday morning to play a ACB road game on Saturday, and then we are not back until late Wednesday, once we have played our Eurocup game, as happened against Azovmash Mariupol in our first game in this competition. It was not only the long trip, but the fact that we lost by two points, in overtime, after such a long journey. You can only imagine our faces after the game, as... more

Hello everybody, this is Mario Fernandez, point guard of Kalise Gran Canaria and one of the new bloggers at Eurocupbasketball.com. First of all, I would like to thank the Eurocup organization for having the opportunity to give my opinion and give my point of view and humble thoughts in this blog, which I will write with the best intentions. I really hope that the time you spend reading this blog is worth it whenever you come close to these lines.

For those that don't know me well, this is my third season with Kalise Gran Canaria. I started my career playing for FC Barcelona, in its cadet and junior teams, as well as for its second team. Six years ago, I joined Calpe in the Spanish third division. I soon moved up to the Spanish second division, playing for Aracena, Menorca and CAI Zaragoza before joining Gran Canaria. This season, we are back in Europe's second competition and, as usual, we will be the European team that accumulates the most kilometers travelling around the continent - and misses more practices because of those long trips.

Gran Canaria is one of the Canary Islands and that makes us both the westernmost and southernmost team, geographically, in the competition. It all makes sense - the long trips, the endless hours spent on airports, the physical effort that you have to make after long trips, playing two really strong competitions -... more