His surprise arrival at ABANCA Ademar was an opportunity for Drew Donlin, the leap to first-level European handball for the new American player, who barely entered Manolo Cadenas’s plans, his endorsement to join the Marist team in addition to the zero expense that it entails your stay. And it will be like that again for the next season in which Donlin is ready to gain in importance once the adaptation phase is over.
With Rubén Márchán and Mateusz Piechowki, Carou’s replacement, he will form the trio of pivots. Donlin has excellent references from Polish: “He’s a great player with experience in an excellent team and that’s why I’m excited to play with him because he will surely push me to be a better player. “. Of the rest of the signings he assures that “they have a lot of talent and I am looking forward to starting training with them soon”, while he regrets the non-admission of the team to the Champions League because “it was a dream”.
In another vein, he prefers not to comment on the convulsive departure of some of his colleagues, who harshly charged against the attitude of the Ademarista leadership. “I don’t have much comment on the situation, other than that it was sad to see everything that happened and the way it happened. I will certainly miss everyone, because they are friends for life already and I hope we can all move forward in a positive way, “said Donlin.
The American captain was elected best athlete of 2019 in the Air Force after his first year in the Abanca Ademar, that will extend a season within the agreement between the Leonese club and the American Olympic Committee. For Donlin this recognition was “a great honor”, although he extends it to the “great teams” with which he has competed, the national team, where he is especially a very important player in beach handball, and Ademar with the which also debuted in European competition, the EHF Cup.
A new European experience, after passing through German Hannover, which was interrupted due to the coronavirus health crisis that led him, after the quarantine, to return to his country and to California where he reconciles his work in the Army and training before his return to León to start the preseason on July 27.
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