Backcourt player Alex Ortega joins Fertiberia BM Puerto Sagunto's first team

The Catalan centre back will be part of Fertiberia's first-team squad in the Silver Honour Division after completing two good seasons with the red-and-white reserve side.

Fertiberia Balonmano Puerto Sagunto announces a new signing from the red-and-white reserve side: Catalan centre back Alex Ortega will play in the Silver Honour Division after spending two years in the club's Primera Nacional team. Ortega will once again work under Toni Malla, with whom he spent two seasons in the second team, with the aim of helping Fertiberia fight for promotion back to the Sacyr ASOBAL League.

Alex Ortega highlights the excitement and importance this step up to Fertiberia Balonmano Puerto Sagunto's first team has for him: ‘For me, signing for the first team means achieving one of my personal objectives and fulfilling a huge ambition, as I came here with that purpose. Now I will have to give everything and more to return the club to where it deserves to be, while continuing to fulfil dreams.’

Regarding what he can contribute to the team, Ortega says: ‘I think I can contribute courage, heart, desire and, above all, HARD WORK.’

‘The objective for the season is to finish as high as we can, ensuring that we cannot reproach ourselves for not having given everything. We must empty ourselves match by match, training session by training session, and that will determine our position.’ The centre back adds regarding the season's objective.

Ortega is aware that it will be difficult at first because the squad is almost entirely new, but he has no doubt that they will fight for the objective of ‘returning’: ‘The project is very interesting and ambitious, but we cannot forget that we are starting with an almost entirely new squad. We will have to bring each and every part together and then make sure they all work in unison to achieve the common objective.’

The Catalan centre back concludes that he is looking forward to pre-season ‘with boundless eagerness to start working together and meet the new team-mates.’

Translation produced using artificial intelligence.