Laura Ester, the water polo legend who started playing “by chance”

Shortly before Laura Ester (Barcelona, ​​1990) was going to Paris, Ona Carbonell took the opportunity to have a chat with this protagonist who is dedicated to “a sport that is not widely covered by the media, such as women’s water polo”. During the Games this attention grows until it becomes one of the disciplines that arouses the most interest in Spain, thanks in part to the two silver medals achieved at the recent meetings in Tokyo and London. In goal for the national team there is Laura, who admits that she started in this sport “a bit by chance” and is now a living legend of international water polo.

I accepted and I left delighted from the first day and not only because of the sport, but because of the group we had made. You compete not only for yourself, but for the person next to you”, says Laura Ester. And it is precisely this collective component that continues to attract the Club Natació Sabadell player the most. “You play with friends and they end up being your family. The main value that comes from water polo is camaraderie, sacrificing yourself for the one next to you”, stresses Laura Ester to Ona.

With Spain, the goalkeeper has two Olympic medals, a European gold and another World gold (in addition to two world medals)so the goal for the French appointment is the gold that is missing from the record. The motivation, they keep it intact. “We’ve been up there for many years. It’s hard to get to, but even harder to stay. But we don’t think about everything we carry, but what we carry comes later. What do we want to achieve”. For this reason, he believes that “the key to the success of this team is a mixture of players who have been there for years and inexperienced and excited people who create something special in the water”.

The key to staying afloat in water polo

It’s thanks to the movement called bike legs, where you keep much of your torso out during a match by ‘pedaling’ with each leg inward in a circular fashion in the water.

Between medals and stops, Laura Ester has also had time to run one Biochemistry degreewhich is not easy considering that with his Sabadell club he trains about four hours a day and with the National Team, when he is concentrated, they get to six and even eight hours a day.

In all this time, the title that has given him the most excitement was the World Cup played “and won” in Barcelona. Although he may soon share this honor with the competition in Paris. He is looking forward to this happening and being able to celebrate a gold “at the Eiffel Tower, in my town, Peñaparda, and wherever necessary”.

Did you know that there is VAR in water polo?

VAR has recently begun to be used both to see whether or not a ball has entered the goal for a goal, as well as for some underwater actions that the referee could not see from the surface.

2024-08-08 21:59:47
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