Pau Gasol wants to win the EuroBasket 2009

Pau Gasol has a thorn. As a professional, can boast of having won practically everything. The League and Spanish Cup with Barcelona, the NBA with the Los Angeles Lakers, two World Cups (in Japan 2006 and in 1999 with the gold juniors). But it still lacks two things: the Olympics and a European.

In 2003 we reached the final, but Spain had not yet given the enormous leap in quality. In that year, only Juan Carlos Navarro, Jorge Garbajosa, Pau Gasol Alberto Herreros and drew the chariot, a fact which deprived us of the title against Lithuania. In 2007 in Madrid, Pau Gasol missed the last shot against Russia, led by Holden, and we lost our own house in a bitter end after winning the 2006 World Cup (we thought we would be a cakewalk).

With the game that the guys did in Beijing 2008 to the United States, Spain deserved to win the European Championship, and Pau Gasol desired, but is aware that it will be very difficult.

"I do not know if it is our duty but it is our desire. We hope to achieve, but we can not anticipate the events because we still have all the preparation.

Moreover, Spain has won both the silver and bronze (silver twice, as Juan Carlos Navarro and some more), so it has a special interest in completing the medal.