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    <title><![CDATA[Ara in English - Mariona Ortiz]]></title>
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      <title><![CDATA[The best Catalan basketball player, seduced by a newly minted competition]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/e7deae00-46c1-4478-a8bd-3f5f9afc87b9_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0.jpg" /></p><p>Mariona Ortiz, one of the great stars of the Liga Femenina Endesa, will leave Casademont Zaragoza at the end of the year to join Project B, a new competition that has altered the global ecosystem of women's basketball. The Catalan player reveals to ARA the reasons for this ambitious change of direction. "I think it is a new project that brings the best players in the world to different cities. Furthermore, it mixes sports, culture, and fashion to access cities that we would not be able to reach in any other way," says the point guard.</p>]]></description>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 02 Nov 2026 13:01:07 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[The player who wanted to quit basketball and now leads the Spanish national team]]></title>
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