Pepe Morianaone of the essential characters in the history of Canarian basketball, presented today in Garachico, his hometown, the book `My dead times, epistles to a passion”where he collects an extensive literary and graphic biography of the basketball that he lived and starred in from the end of the fifties to the present, focusing especially on Claret and Gran Canaria, his two great achievements, with an extensive review of his career as coach and president from the sixties to the nineties.
Moriana, who was accompanied at the Hotel La Quinta Roja, run by his daughter Paloma, a former basketball player at the Islas Canarias club and in the United States, by a broad representation of childhood friends from Garachica and the basketball family from Tenerife and the Canary Islands, He pointed out that the book “is a tribute to someone who has impregnated my lifestyle, basketball, with capital letters”. Among the many anecdotes, Moriana said that playing chess he understood that basketball was the same game but in motion and that “I even invented a move and the players interpreted it very well on the court; we won”.
