Carlos Jimenez leave the selection

The great Spanish captain Carlos Jimenez, gets out of the car to his 32 years to concentrate on his club. For many years has been one of the thermometers in the selection.

Pau Gasol, Juan Carlos Navarro, Jose Calderon, now Rudy Fernandez and Ricky Rubio ... There have been many players who missed the games that were not fine, especially in the scoring aspect. Maybe that's why Carlos Jimenez has always been in the shadow of the great with his particular style of play, called by Andres Montes as: "From the scaffold. But make no mistake, Carlos Jimenez has been the true barometer of the selection. If Carlos is not fine, the selection loses intensive game. Of course, luckily, Carlos Jimenez is always fine.

Imagine a player who plays for him only, the typical player NBA wants to be top scorer and he does not care that his team lose 60 games if he manages to score more than 30 per game. Then Carlos Jimenez is just the opposite. Fighter, a great defender, rebounder and blocked shots. If it had been better in the annotation would have been the largest in history. Although, in fact, it already is. He retired to his 32 years with many successes behind him, as the six medals achieved with the Spanish selection. In fact, the player who has more and began the journey of the golden boys back in 1999, when the Eurobasket in Spain reached France the silver, losing in the final against Italy. From there, the great harvest of hits basketball Spanish, beginning with the Eurobasket in which Navarro and Pau Gasol, about to go to the NBA, won the bronze medal in 2001. In 2003, Lithuania deprived us of the gold in another European Championship (Sweden). U.S. in Athens took us from the struggle of the medals as a reward for making a perfect first step. In 2005 low of Pau Gasol was a burden that was not exceeded, but in 2006 Spain took gold in Japan. In 2007 we got the silver at the EuroBasket in Madrid and in 2008 the silver in Beijing.

Carlos Jimenez has not informed its colleagues the decision until after the final.