Real Estelí Baloncesto

Real Estelí
Real Estelí
Nickname	El Tren del Norte (The Train of the North)
Leagues	Liga Superior de Baloncesto; BCL Americas
Founded	2018; 4 years ago
History	Real Estelí Baloncesto; 2018–present
Arena	Alexis Arguello Sports Complex
Capacity	8,057
Location	Estelí, Nicaragua
President	Fidel Moreno
Head coach	David Rosario
Championships	3 (2019, 2020, 2021)
Website	realestelifc.com/basket
Home	Away

Real Estelí Baloncesto is a Nicaraguan basketball team based in Estelí. Founded in 2018, it is the basketball section of the Real Estelí FC football club, which was founded in 1959. The team entered the Liga Superio de Baloncesto (LSB) for its debut season in 2018 season.^[1] The team's home arena is the Alexis Arguello Sports Complex, which was opened in 2017 and has a capacity of 8,057 people.^[2]

History[]

The first game of the team in the LSB was played on 9 February 2018 against .

In 2019, head coach took over the team. Before he joined Estelí, Rosario had been the three-time Baloncesto Superior Nacional champion with Capitanes de Arecibo.^[3] In the same year, Real Estelí played in the inaugural season of the newly founded, Basketball Champions League Americas.^[4] Real reached the quarterfinals. A year later, the team won its first LSB championship after defeating in the playoff finals.

In April 2021, Real Estelí played in the Final Eight of the 2020–21 BCL Americas and hosted the tournament in Managua. The team managed to reach the final for the first time in club history,^[5] where it narrowly lost to Flamengo 80–84.^[6]

Real Estelí qualified for the 2021–22 BCL Americas season, which was its fourth in a row. El Tren del Norte was allotted into Group A alongside Cangrejeros de Santurce and the Edmonton Stingers.^[3]

On 3 December 2021, the club repeated as LSB champions after beating in the final.

Honours[]

National[]

Liga Superior de Baloncesto

Champions (3): 2019, 2020, 2021

International[]

BCL Americas

Runner-up (1): 2020–21

Liga Centroamericana

Winners (1): 2018

Players[]

Current roster[]

Real Estelí roster

Players

Coaches

Pos.	No.	Name	Ht.	Age
G	0	De Jesús, Jezreel	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)	35 – (1986-08-27)27 August 1986
G	1		1.77 m (5 ft 10 in)	35 – (1986-05-05)5 May 1986
PG	2	Diaz, Guillermo	1.89 m (6 ft 2 in)	37 – (1985-03-04)4 March 1985
PG	4		1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)	28 – (1994-01-07)7 January 1994
SF	7		1.98 m (6 ft 6 in)	28 – (1993-08-22)22 August 1993
C	11		2.00 m (6 ft 7 in)	22 – (1999-09-23)23 September 1999
PG	20		1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)	22 – (1999-09-06)6 September 1999
C	23		2.13 m (7 ft 0 in)	32 – (1989-10-27)27 October 1989
C	28	Romero, Ismael	2.03 m (6 ft 8 in)	30 – (1991-06-23)23 June 1991
G/F	29		1.95 m (6 ft 5 in)	23 – (1999-03-14)14 March 1999
F	32	Balkman, Renaldo	2.01 m (6 ft 7 in)	37 – (1984-07-14)14 July 1984
F/C	35		1.98 m (6 ft 6 in)	24 – (1998-02-17)17 February 1998
G/F	42	Franklin, Alex	1.98 m (6 ft 6 in)	33 – (1988-07-11)11 July 1988
SG	44	Mojica, Javier	1.89 m (6 ft 2 in)	37 – (1984-08-31)31 August 1984

Head coach

Assistant coach(es)

Legend

(C) Team captain
Injured

Roster

Updated: January 6, 2022

In international competitions[]

Champions Runners-up Third place Fourth place

BCL Americas[]

Below are all the seasons of Real Estelí in the BCL Americas competition.

Season	Round	W	L	W%	Result
2019–20	Quarterfinals	5	2	.714	Lost to Instituto ACC, 1–2
2021	Runners-up	6	3	.667	Lost to Flamengo in the final
2021–22	TBD			–	In progress
Total	0 Titles	11	5	.688

Notable players[]

- Set a club record or won an individual award as a professional player.
- Played at least one official international match for his senior national team at any time.

Note: Flags indicate national team eligibility at FIBA sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationality not displayed.