The stand of the Cabildo de Lanzarote and La Graciosa at the third edition of ExpoDeca 2026, the Canary Islands Physical Activity and Sports Fair, which is being held until this Sunday in the Plaza de la Música and its surroundings, in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, became this Friday the stage for the presentation of a project born in Lanzarote with a global vision and specialized in basketball: canariasbaloncesto.com
The presentation of the website was attended by the counselor for Physical Activity and Sports of the Lanzarote council, Juan Monzón, as well as island sports councilors such as Alexis Hernández (San Bartolomé) or Alejandro Ramírez (Teguise), in addition to representatives of the Canary Islands Basketball Federation such as its Sports Director, Jorge Olano, and Santi Lucena, Federative Coordinator of 3x3 Basketball and delegate in La Palma.
canariasbaloncesto.com is a new communication medium specialized in the orange ball sport that aims to offer a global view of basketball from the Canary Islands and, at the same time, become a tool to give greater visibility to the activity carried out by clubs, federations, athletes, and sports entities of the islands.
The website is born from the hand of journalist and Superior Basketball Coach, Gonzalo Mejías, with an unequivocally Canarian vocation. Its objective is for the basketball played in the archipelago to have its own space for information and follow-up, regardless of the category, gender, or size of the club.
The project will pay special attention to the competitions and the activity of the Canarian clubs, but it also aims to focus on those protagonists who are often left out of the news of the major media: youth players, coaches, referees, training teams, women's basketball projects, inclusion initiatives, and new modalities such as 3x3.
Competition information is one of the pillars of the project, as CanariasBaloncesto.com works to facilitate fan access to calendars, results, standings, and match tracking, in collaboration with the entities responsible for the different competitions. In this regard, the project is already in talks with the Canary Islands Basketball Federation to advance access to official match and results information and offer it in a more accessible way to fans.
But CanariasBaloncesto.com does not want to limit its gaze to the basketball played on the islands. The project is also born with a clear international vocation and with the intention of bringing the news of the major competitions and markets of world basketball closer to the Canary Islands fan. NBA, WNBA, NCAA, G League, ACB, Euroleague, FIBA competitions, European and American basketball will be part of an informative radar that will allow us to follow from the Canary Islands an increasingly global sport. The philosophy of the project is summarized in its motto: "All basketball. One world. In Spanish," because CanariasBaloncesto.com aims to do more than just convey results. The intention is to explain what happens with its own voice, providing narrative and research, seeking to name its protagonists and connect the different realities that are part of the same sport, always putting, above all, the love for basketball.
The new medium will have different sections dedicated to news, competitions, national teams, 3x3, inclusive basketball, and a multimedia section, in addition to specific coverage of local, regional, national, and international news.
"Canary Islands has an enormous tradition and an enormous reality of basketball. There are great teams, great players, youth academies, women's basketball, 3x3, inclusive projects, and thousands of people who work every day around this sport. We want to tell all that and do it from the Canary Islands, but looking at the world," explains Gonzalo Mejías, promoter of the project.
The presentation held at ExpoDeca thus marks the public starting point of a journalistic project that aims to offer, from Lanzarote, from the Canary Islands, and to the world, all basketball, in one place.
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