María Liñeira

María Cecilia Liñeira (born 10 May 1983) is an Argentine-Czech professional basketball player, who played the 2018–2019 season for Megacalzado Ardoi in Liga Femenina 2.

Biography María Cecilia Liñeira was born in Buenos Aires in 1983. She has a university degree in Surgical Instrumentation, a profession she practiced in her home country, where she attended several operations. Her degree was not recognized in Spain, and she has studied in two other fields: nursing, and psychology at the National University of Distance Education (UNED).

Career Cecilia Liñeira started her professional basketball career at her native Lanús, but when she was very young she decided to cross the Atlantic. She has a Community passport, since she has family connections to Argentina, Poland, Spain, Italy, and the Czech Republic. The passport of the latter country, the home of her grandfather, opened the doors to European basketball for her. In 2014, Liñeira was named to LF2's "Ideal Quintet" (Quinteto Ideal) of the day on four occasions, highlighting her performance in Ourense, where she was named MVP of Day 16 with 30 points, 19 rebounds and 4 assists for a total of 50 valuation points. She has averaged 14.2 points and 8.4 rebounds (19.1 valuation points, making her the fifth most valued player in group A).

For the 2018–2019 season she signed for the club Megacalzado Ardoi, with which she achieved promotion to LF2.

Clubs , Argentina Lanús, Argentina 2006–2008 – CB Pio XII, A Coruña: LF2 2008–2011 – UNB Obenasa Navarra: 2 seasons in LF2 and the last in the LF 2011–2012 – Irlandesas: half year in LF2 2012–2015 – GDKO Ibaizábal: 2 seasons in LF2 and one in the LF 2015 – Granate, Argentina, since the end of the season in Spain 2015-2016 – Araski AES: LF2 2016-2017 – Araski AES: LF 2018–2019 – Megacalzado Ardoi in the following competitions: 2006 South American Championship (Asunción, Paraguay) 2013 South American Championship (Mendoza, Argentina)

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