Dario Brizuela is a new Barça player. The Basque shooting guard has paid the termination clause that bound him to Unicaja Málaga after his recent renewal until 2026 and will sign a contract with the culé team for three seasons.
This is how his signing has been announced:
Darío Brizuela will be a Barça player until June 30, 2026. The until now green player joins the latest additions -Parra and W. Hernangómez-, who have made the team led by Roger Grimau.
Until now, Unicaja’s number ‘8’ has played a total of 256 games in the ACB, with an average of 19 minutes, 9.8 points and 1.9 assists. His versatility is one of his strong points. He usually occupies the shooting guard position, although he can act as a point guard at specific moments.
Brizuela, 28 years old and 188 centimeters tall, trained in the lower categories of CB Easo de Donosti, although in 2011 he already signed for the lower categories of Estudiantes. He was with Ramiro de Maeztu for eight and a half seasons. Despite having played two games with the first team in 2012, Brizuela established himself in the first team of the collegiate team from the 2015/16 season, after a season on loan to Huesca.
His growth as a player aroused the interest of teams with a bigger budget than the students and it was Unicaja de Málaga who finally took him.
With the team trained by Ibon Navarro, the Basque has achieved his greatest success at club level. And you don’t have to go far. This season the green team has reached the semifinals of the Endesa League, where they lost against Barça, the final of the FIBA Champions League, lost to Turk Telekom and they were proclaimed champions of the Copa del Rey played in Badalona.
How is the Barça squad with the latest signings?
Satoransky – Jokubaitis
Laprovittola – Higgins – Brizuela – Caicedo
Kalinic – Parra – Abrines – Paulí
Da Silva – Martinez – Mirotic?
Willy – Vesely – Nnaji
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Dario Brizuela, new blaugrana signing
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Unicaja had previously announced that the shooting guard had used the termination clause in his contract to dissociate himself from the Malaga club.
Brizuela had renewed his contract last April until 2026 with the Malaga team.
According to the Unicaja Málaga statement:
Darío Brizuela has exercised his unilateral right to early termination of the contract that bound him to Unicaja until June 30, 2026.
The Spanish international escort, who had recently renewed his contract, puts an end to his stage in Malaga. Since his arrival at Unicaja in December 2019, there have been 3 and a half seasons in which the player from San Sebastian has played a total of 173 games with the green shirt, with averages of 12.3 points, 2.1 assists and a PIR of 10.1.
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The entry Barça pays for Darío Brizuela’s clause: this is how the Barça squad appears in Gigantes del Basket.
