The success of the Artur Parera formula, with Bada Huesca designation of origin and ASOBAL.

Artur Parera received just a few days ago his first call-up with the Spanish national team, with the satisfaction of a job well done and the excitement of an opportunity for a select few. A reward for a breakout moment at Bada Huesca under the law of six meters, amid struggles to gain position and the examination of each clear throw at the goalkeeper. The pivot reflects, without sweeteners. “It is always a good time to receive the call from the national team. It is very exciting and, being the first one and probably not expecting it at all, even more so. Everyone in my environment, the people I care about, were very happy and I am grateful, but it is true that I tried to separate it a little until the moment of the call-up to be 100% focused on the team. That's what we need. We cannot afford to have anyone's head elsewhere,” the pivot tells ASOBAL, avoiding the narrative of I, me, me, with me.

The team and Bada Huesca, above all. The pivot shows maturity at 24 years old. He is a young man with veteran stripes with a background of six seasons, three teams and three NEXUS ENERGY ASOBAL League titles, tracing an upward evolution that confirms step by step his previous status as an international promise wearing the Barça shirt and from the lower categories of the national team. A golden youth player with ASOBAL origin, now from Huesca, with a clear focus, living humbly the sweetness of success as one more step in his career. His team and the fight for survival in the final stretch of the competition are paramount.

“It's the most important thing. Looking at the schedule, the feelings and our moment of play, I think we depend on ourselves and if we win what we have ahead of us we are saved. It's not that easy, but we'll pull it off. The reading is to face the matches as we are doing, with that extra competitiveness, with that grit. Now we go to Palau, which will help us maintain this level, will give us margin to recover players who are touched and perhaps relax the head, try to remove a little the pressure of descent and compete as we know to achieve the objective,” he assures, a few hours before facing Carlos Ortega's team in Barcelona (Saturday, 12:30h, LALIGA+).

It is an exercise of responsibility with the sediment of the past season, which ended up drawing a survival in the last round of the League. A collective sense that explains, in part, his way of living the game and his sporting moment. He understands that risk is part of the ASOBAL brand - and value - and that it defines a competitive floor that demands something more than talent for talent. “They were very hard weeks, some of us were with a regular stomach from nerves, but at the same time I think everything is enjoyed a little more. Having to manage the equality that exists in the competition, in each game, is beautiful. It makes you learn as a player and as a person, it makes you grow,” says the pivot, from experience.

Parera has internalized the role of protagonist of the NEXUS ENERGY ASOBAL League from a patient perspective, already unusual in times of immediacy and ‘scrolling’, leaving the continental excellence of Barça to enlist for a year in the ranks of Puerto Sagunto, first, and Bada Huesca, a course later. “I think my departure from Barça helped me a lot, I made a radical change. I had a year of reality check in Puerto Sagunto, competing for each game, noticing the losses when there were and knowing that you cannot have a bad game, although everyone have a right to that margin. It made me grow a lot, by 10, to put it in some way,” points out the pivot, highlighting the ecosystem within the global reading. “I think it's not a specific case of mine. All the young people are noticing the level and competitiveness of the NEXUS ENERGY ASOBAL League. This progression is being noticed. More and more talent is emerging in the League because it is becoming more and more tough and complicated. That diversity, of being able to put yourself up or have a bad streak at any moment, is what makes the NEXUS ENERGY ASOBAL League very beautiful,” he adds.

Artur has been one of the many young talents who have climbed to set the pace of the NEXUS ENERGY ASOBAL League show. He is the second highest scorer of Bada Huesca (two goals behind Frank Cordiés) with his best scoring average since he reached the elite. Work, high-quality minute play and the ability to secure results. It was the succession of circumstances he was looking for when he arrived and renewed - by the law of conviction - just a few months ago with Bada Huesca. “From the beginning it seemed to me a beautiful, exciting project, that trusted and bet on me. It fit me and I decided to accept the challenge, go all out with them. Here in Huesca I am really well, in the club and in the city. It is a club that has everything: a good medical staff, a very good physical trainer, it has a good technical team with José (Nolasco), who has been here, I don't know if it's 16 years. It is a team that makes you feel very comfortable and that lives practically for you, and that helps you a lot. The renewal? Well, you put everything on a scale. I trusted the club, they want to have a cool sporting project and I bet on it,” he says, determined.

A small ode to loyalty and the trust of his sporting environment, in his club and the professional competition, increasingly common. Artur knows where he is. He knows where he wants to be. “Bada Huesca is a humble club, but with a work team that is passionate about the club. When you arrive you see that there is a huge club feeling. You understand that you have to fight, that the fan asks you to win, yes, but especially to give it all on the court. If it cannot be, it is because the rival has been superior, but not because you have saved something. We are a humble club, but a club that tries to do things well and does them very well. More and more people come to the games, we have a good press follow-up and we are getting handball to grow here. The strength of the Palace is noticeable and is very important when the games are very close, or in the final minutes,” he explains. From there he wants to continue enjoying the colors of Bada Huesca, the NEXUS ENERGY ASOBAL League and the successes he reaps, with survival and the Spanish national team as his next big goals.