27 May 2007
Carme Lluveras: ‘Valencia is the ideal place for me to develop my ambition’
5/23/2007 – Ciudad Ros Casares and Carme Lluveras, club general manager, have arrived at an agreement to extend her deal one more season, that is, until the end of the 2007-2008 season.
Carme Lluveras stated, “Valencia is the ideal place for me to develop my ambition. It’s an honor for me to continue working in a club like Ciudad Ros Casares, where I feel at home.”
The GM arrived at Ciudad Ros Casares at the end of January 2006 with a view toward planning the 2006-2007 season, a campaign that has turned out to be the club’s most successful ever. The team has come to dominate in the Liga Valenciana, winning the Supercopa, the Copa de la Reina and the Liga Femenina, even getting to the final in the Euroliga Femenina.
“After an almost perfect year, it will be difficult to match those successes, but this motivates me even more. The hard part is staying up among the European elite,” said Lluveras. She explained all this on Friday when the club announced it would re-sign head coach Manolo Real. Lluveras expects the Ros Casares project to continue showing success, saying “The main objective is to extend our hegemony in Spain and return to the Final Four of the Euroliga Femenina.”
The Ciudad Ros Casares GM has new challenges now. “Before I only had to get the team to win,” she said. “Now the responsibility is even greater. The whole club has to win! And I enjoy that. The idea that I brought to the club was not just to promote quality player personnel but to help improve and grow the whole organization. In this part are several objectives, which also strike me as crucial. We’re going to build new offices in the Fonteta. We also want to improve the uniforms and innovate more in our merchandising. This series of initiatives will help us to grow even more,” said Lluveras.
Eight of the players who played for Ciudad Ros Casares this season are contracted through the 2007-2008 season. These are Elisa Aguilar, Laia Palau, Noemi Jornada, Elena Tornikidou, DeLisha Milton-Jones, Marina Ferragut, Erika de Souza and Margot Dydek.
Source document: Carme Lluveras: “Valencia es el sitio ideal para desarrollar mi ambición”
