American comes to close Julie Forster's exit

Kristen Mann, American, 31 years old, six feet tall, arrived in the area yesterday to start training on the female senior team from today. Kristen Mann served in the WNBA, the Women's Professional Basketball League of the United States, as well as in several European championships, having integrated, in several years, the squad of teams that competed in the Euroliga. Mann began as a professional basketball player precisely in 2005, in the United States, having graduated from the University of California in Santa Barbara. Early on, he started his professional career where he has already signed for the best clubs in Spain, Peru and, since 2010, in France. His last club was Toulouse Metropole Basketball, from 2013 to 2014. Kristen Mann is one of the most recognized international basketball players. It is recognized not only for its excellent sports results but also for its performance as a singer and guitarist in the international duet ‘Sappica’. One woman is said to be essential elements in basketball and music. João Pedro Vieira, head coach of the senior female team of Club Friends of the Basketball, says very confident in this hiring: “Kristen Mann is replacing our athlete Julie Forster who had to return home with injury. She's a player who, despite playing in the same positions on the field, has a completely different game style from the one that Julie used to, yet doesn't change our game philosophy." "Kristen will bring experience above all else, as she is a player who has gone through several WNBA and Euroliga and French League teams. I am convinced that this choice of ours has been the right one and we will have to make the most of its passage through the Madeira CAB." "It's a rare opportunity for us to have in our club a player with this resume. But for me, as a coach, names and the past tell me nothing and it will be already in the very near future that our new foreigner will have to help the Club achieve our goals for what is left of this season, which go through winning the Portuguese Cup and the Women’s League Championship.” The women's senior team of the Club Friends of the Basketball, where Kristen Mann now joins, was already this season winner of the Super Cup and the Federation Cup, currently leading the ranking table of the national championship. The Amigas are still in the race to compete for the Cup of Portugal, being able to get to the 'Final Four' of that competition.