Michel's will
Thursday, July 23, 2009
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I guess like many I too was caught by surprise by the news of the death of Michel Casamitjana, one of those people they know over many years in the world of our sport and you always remains an excellent memory but be years until we see them again.
I knew him for many, many, through his cousin José Antonio Arizaga, when a rainy night that Orthez, after a match in the European league then, it took me and my partner Miguel Angel Fornies to dine with the French club's president, Pierre Seillant , A history of European basketball. (Miguel Angel, of course, already had a longstanding relationship with Seillant, the truth is that half of Europe knew him)
Then, over time, Michel suddenly what we would find in a European Championship in a Final Four or some other event, and it was when you opened your wallet and began to reexplicar the party had seen base of numbers and interpretation of official statistics. Always looking for the perfect performance, accurate and irrefutable. A little short of chimerical task but which are delivered openly, without being ever give up.
My last relationship with Michel was indirect. A few years ago when we launched into the adventure of publishing a library of books on basketball, my colleague Julian Felipo had with him an intense exchange of data and ideas which he incorporated into his work winning formula. Yesterday, when I sent a text message to report the death of Michel, told me that a few months ago had received a dossier Casamitjana itself qualify as a will, his will, statistically, of course. Someday we will release it, of course. The
that I left was not of numbers or data or basketball. A Michel Casamitjana remember him ever since the night she met him, talking about everything a little, I said, "Twenty years will not be a millionaire who has a lot of money but who have a lot of time" . He recalled in 1999, a coach in the organization of Eurobasket Ominsports path of Bercy.
Farewell, friend.
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