Nueva Era Basket Club

Nueva Era Basket Club (in English: New Era Basketball Club) is an Equatorial Guinean basketball team based in Malabo. The team was founded in 2021 by a group of basketball enthusiast, led by Jules Cesar Micha Nfono. The establishment of the Basketball Africa League (BAL) in the same year inspired them to provide a club for the youth of national basketball.[1]

Nueva Era
Nueva Era logo
LeagueNational Basketball League
Founded2021
HistoryNueva Era Basket Club
2021–present
LocationMalabo, Equatorial Guinea
PresidentJules Cesar Micha Nfono
Head coachHilario Mengue Nsue
Websitenuevaerabc.com

In 2021, the team signed Spanish coach Ignacio Duran and two foreign players in David Stachoskij and Daniel Saunders. Nueva Era won the national championship in 2022.

Nueva Era played in the 2023 BAL qualification,[1] and won one game in the first round against Espoir, becoming the first Equatoguinean team to win a BAL qualification game and to advance past the first round.[2][3]

Honours

National Basketball League

  • Champions (2): 2020–21, 2021–22[4]

June 5th Basketball Tournament

  • Winners (1): 2021[5]

Players

2022 roster
Nueva Era roster
PlayersCoaches
Pos.No.Nat.Name
PF 2 Central African Republic Ngaïfei, Omega
3 United States Terrell, Deonta
4 Equatorial Guinea Ndong, Juan Bautista
5 Equatorial Guinea Esono, Jorge Luis
6 Equatorial Guinea Obiang, Pastor
7 Equatorial Guinea Nguema, Jesús
8 Equatorial Guinea Esuba, Ángel Manuel
9 Equatorial Guinea Hinestrosa, Ruslán
C 10 Cameroon Soup Soup, Wembé
12 Equatorial Guinea Ntutumu, Reginaldo
14 Equatorial Guinea Nguba, David Enrique
15 United States Worthy, Mandrell
Head coach
  • Equatorial Guinea Hilario Mengue
Assistant coach(es)
  • Equatorial Guinea Adolfo Babasasa
  • Equatorial Guinea Francisco Ndong
Legend
  • (C) Team captain
  • Injured Injured
Updated: 20 October 2022

References
  1. "Get to know the first four teams to open the 2022 Road to BAL season". FIBA.basketball. Retrieved 2022-10-13.
  2. "Nueva Era consigue su primera victoria en las eliminatorias para la Liga de Baloncesto de África | Revista Real Equatorial Guinea". Revista Real Equatorial Guinea Noticias de Guinea Ecuatorial y el Mundo (in European Spanish). 2022-10-15. Retrieved 2022-10-20.
  3. "Worthy sends Nueva Era through to BAL's Elite 16". FIBA.basketball. Retrieved 2022-10-20.
  4. Ndour, Papa Lamine (2022-07-09). "Basket-Guinée équatoriale : New Era et King Africa champions". Sport News Africa (in French). Retrieved 2022-09-25.
  5. Elúgu, Rubén Darío Ndumu Bengono (2021-06-08). "Baloncesto: "Nueva era BC" gana el torneo 5 de junio". AhoraEG Guinea Ecuatorial (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-10-20.
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