Garuba clocks up 100th Real Madrid appearance

Usman Garuba made his one hundredth Actual Madrid look within the rearranged league Spherical 20 street journey to Monbus Obradoiro. The madridista energy ahead, who performed his half within the win with 12 factors, eight bounds, three turnovers and a PIR of 20 in his 24:33 minutes on courtroom, is now into his second season as a member of the first-team roster on the age of simply 19.

Garuba is likely one of the youngest academy graduates to have debuted for the primary workforce. He made his bow on 28 October 2018 on the age of 16. Since then, he has performed an more and more outstanding position inside Pablo Laso’s workforce and has smashed a number of membership and ACB information. He is the youngest madridista to have began a match, having achieved so aged 17 years and 6 months. It was additionally at this age that he claimed his first double-double (13 factors and 10 rebounds towards UCAM Murcia), which additionally noticed him land the all-time league file. He’s additionally the participant who wanted the fewest variety of video games to publish double digitis within the PIR stakes after doing simply that in his second match for the Whites, while he’s the youngest participant to have made three blocks within the ACB (16 years previous).

Certainly one of Europe’s finest starlets

Garuba at the moment sits second within the EuroLeague’s Rising Star standings on 132 factors from 30 video games and lies second to Lithuania’s Zalgiris Jokubaitis. Garuba’s trophy haul with the primary workforce encompasses a Copa del Rey and two Tremendous Cups, while throughout his time within the Whites’ academy, he gained a EuroLeague and two Spanish league titles. He additionally landed a gold medal on the Beneath-18 European Championship with Spain. He has contested 52 league video games, 44 EuroLeague matches and two Copa del Rey and Tremendous Cup video games apiece.