The San Roque-El Batán Volleyball Club presented this Tuesday the squad with which will compete in the 2024/2025 season to surprise again in the men's Super League and, for the first time in its more than 50 years of history, in European competition, with work as the main premise.
San Roque is a team that has been working with many young people for 50 years, every year they have young people who come out of the youth system. It is a club that has a mentality of working hard and the results are being seen with the Super League, with sponsorships or with a quarry that grows every year.
The team, born in a humble neighborhood of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, reached the highest category of national volleyball last year, achieving permanence and qualify for the play-offs for the titlewhich has given them a ticket to play on October 8 and 9 in the Challenge Cup, the third most important continental competition, against the Norwegian BK Tromso.
An opportunity that, in the words of its president, Miguel Ángel Hernández Infanteface “with great enthusiasm” after having given “many surprises” last season.
“We won many games where We were considered lost and this year we want to continue doing our best in the category.“, he assured in statements to the media at the facilities of the Rafael Afonso Group, which has joined the entity as a sponsor.
According to Miguel Ángel Hernández, “it is a source of pride for the San Roque neighborhood and for the island of Gran Canaria in general” that a modest team like San Roque has reached the continental competition in its second year in the highest category of national volleyball and he wanted to highlight that these achievements have their roots in the entity's quarry.
Because, he has said, “with money you can do many things, but the quarry you have to work a lot“.
Regarding how to instill among the new recruits that feeling of belonging to the neighborhood, the president of the team has insisted that the San Roque is “a family” and that when a new player arrives, “he sees how it is structured and he fits easily into the club, and it is difficult for him to want to leave.”
The fans and the quarry are for one of the founders of the entity, Esteban Gonzalezthe main symbols of the club's history and has opted to achieve this season “at a minimum, to revalidate its permanence” in the Super League and see “at what level” the entity is facing BK Tromso in the Challenge Cup at the beginning of October.
