The Aragon autonomous basketball team is the

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team of

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. The team is not affiliated to

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, so only plays friendly games.

History

The first appearance of Aragon team was in 2005, in

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and they were defeated in the overtime by

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. Next year, another friendly game was played this time at

Huesca Huesca (; ) is a city in north-eastern Spain, within the Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Aragon. It was the capital of the Kingdom of Aragon between 1096 and 1118. It is also the capital of the Spanish Huesca (province), ...

with

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, and the team was defeated again. Aragon played a total of five games.List of Aragón games at Chorche PJ website
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Games played

References

External links

Aragonese Federation website
{{Basketball in Spain Sports clubs and teams in Aragon