He Cuban basis Howard Sant-Roos, of the Ucam Murcia Club, gets ready to assume greater leadership in the team, after the departure of Nemanja Radoovic, captain for years.
In his third season in the Acb Endesa League, of Spainthe forward promises responsibility and support to the new players to cover the void left by the outstanding Montenegrino player.
Sant-Roos acknowledged the agency EFE that has to “assume more responsibilities” and that is something that “for the team and for myself” has to do.
Howard Sant-Roos speaks before this morning’s shooting training
⭐️ “Those who have been, the Denis, Jonah, I, we have to help the new ones adapt well”
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– The sports gazette (@lagacetadeport) August 20, 2025
In turn, he remarked that he hopes to “respond” to the leadership role that corresponds to him within the Murcia formation.
The squad led by Sito Alonso on Wednesday made his first training session at the Sports Palace after the summer holidays, without Toni Nakic and Sander Raiste, cited with the selections of Croatia and Estonia, respectively.
Sant-Roos showed his usual sense of humor in the first statements he made in the return to work.
“I come degraded from home. I spent ten days in Cuba and I had to relax. Many mojitos, cubalibres, cigarettes … things about those,” he said to speak more seriously.
“It will depend on how the season goes, on injuries and others, but I hope to be physically well to help the team,” he said.
Sant-Roos, 34, has to be one of the heavyweight of the wardrobe given his experience and the ancestry he has in his teammates.
“I think I have to assume more responsibilities and I must do it for UCAM and for myself. I think it has to fall a lot of responsibility in my person and I hope to answer,” he said.
This season will be the first in many years without Montenegrino Nemanja Radoovic in the team for which he played for nine seasons in two different stages, the last since 2020.
This absence will cause other players to continue on the squad must take a step forward in terms of leadership. “It will be the third season that is in Murcia and I will try to help, especially contributing to the new ones to integrate, since there are no problems,” said the Cuban player.
“Radovic left a huge hole and between Dylan Ennis, Jonah Radebaugh and I hope we can fill that hole that he left,” he said.
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After a season in which he only participated in 27 games, Sant-Roos prepares to return to the levels of his first campaign with UCAM, in which he played 43 times, exceeding 1000 minutes on the court.
In the three previous campaigns – one with Casademont Zaragoza – average almost eight points, 3.6 rebounds, and 3.2 assists per party, according to official party statistics.
The player is one of the referents within the Cuban National Team, and must be maintained among the priorities of the Osmel Planas coach, especially for the qualifying windows of America for the next World Cup.
