The Real Madrid dictatorship and Tavares: undefeated since 2018 and looking for the seventh consecutive title

Real Madrid can extend this weekend a dictatorship in the Endesa Super Cup that it established in 2018. It is chasing its seventh consecutive titlewhich would be the second longest streak in a competition in the history of Spanish basketball. Only the 10 consecutive leagues that the Madrid club itself won between 1968 and 1977.

The Whites lead the list of winners with 10 Super Cup titles after winning nine of the last 12As you can see, their dominance is recent. There were times when the tournament resisted them. Madrid won the first edition, held in 1984but it was not successful again before it was discontinued in 1988. Upon its return in 2004, it continued to be resisted and In 2012 he finally broke the curse. In fact, he made up for it with three consecutive.

Tavares' plenary session on the 12th

But when the tyranny of the Madridista in the tournament became more evident was with the arrival of Walter Tavares. The pivot signed in November 2017 to replace the injured Ognjen Kuzmic. He arrived late to that season's edition, but It debuted a year later and is still undefeated: 12 games, 12 wins and six titles for the Whites. A streak never seen before.

In those six titles and in the three previous ones he was Sergio Llull, who will play his nineteenth season in Madrid, more than anyone in the history of the basketball sectiono. The captain He also hopes to win his tenth Super Cupa figure that no one has reached.

For that to happen, Madrid would have to defeat Barcelona in the first semi-final this Saturday (6:30 p.m.) and beat the winner of the final this Sunday another match, which will see the host UCAM Murcia against UnicajaThree rivals who will try to end the white team's dictatorship of the Endesa Super Cup.