Sitapha Savané, new president of Granca

Sitapha Savané, new president of Granca

Sitapha Savane. / c7

After five years at the helm, the Island Council dispenses with Enrique Moreno. The former Claretian captain assumes command

The time has come to shake the cocktail shaker at the Gran Canaria Basketball Club. The Island Council, owner of the Claretian entity, has made the decision of a replacement, for which Enrique Moreno will cease to be executive president after five years at the head of direct and daily management.

A controversial figure, weakened over time and without achieving institutional stability.
A waste in a pulse without return with the Councilor for Sports of the Cabildo de Gran Canaria and Claretian Vice President, Francisco Castellano, seasoned with the budget deficit of the last two courses -1,753,992.73 in the first and 1.4 in the second-, which explodes to the point to dispense with Moreno despite the support of the lobbying leadership and, at the same time, will distance Castellano from everything related to the management of Granca. An irreconcilable fracture that accelerates a decision considered for weeks.

Sitapha Savané, in pictures

Enrique Moreno was appointed by Ángel Víctor Torres, then Councilor for Sports of the Cabildo de Gran Canaria, on September 21, 2017. He joined the entity in 1989 and was Vice President of Lisandro Hernández during the two decades he was in office. a moment in which he presented his resignation together with the board. After two years away from the club,
returned in 2012 as legal advisor until assuming the presidency in 2017.

Moments of Enrique Moreno in the presidency of Granca. / C7

The turn of a legend

Sitapha Alfred Savané Sagna,
living history of the Gran Canaria Basketball Clubis the one chosen by the Island Council and will become the seventh president -
Pepe Moriana (1963-1967 and 1973-1990), Lisandro Hernández (1990-2010), Agustín Medina (2010-2011), Joaquín Costa (2011-2015), Miguel Bentancor (2015-2017) and Enrique Moreno (2017-2022 )without failing to mention that Rosa Rodríguez and Óliver Armas were appointed presidents temporarily until the appointment of Medina in the first case and Moreno in the second- of an entity that will be 60 years old in 2023.

Idolized, admired and respected on and off the track by Canarian society and the yellow fans,
the former Senegalese player symbolizes unity, illusion, identity and renewal of internal functioning and external image necessary to vary a roadmap aimlessly.

The former yellow captain, who turned 44 last Saturday and was recognized as an Adoptive Son by the Cabildo de Gran Canaria in 2019,
will assume command in the offices of a club in which he can boast of having numbers like few othersbeing the historical leader of the Gran Canaria Basketball Club in the classifications of PIR (3,359), points (2,690), rebounds (1,355) and blocks (298)
after having played 303 games in two stages (2004-2012 and 2015-2016).

Images of Sitapha Savané in Granca. / C7

A first stage in which he grew individually and collectively in sport at the Insular Sports Center and a second in which he enjoyed the Gran Canaria Arena with a group that caressed the Copa del Rey in A Coruña.
The legend returns home, now as president in this third stage.

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