Carolina Marín‘s character has been the great plus that has changed its history. A differential DNA that has made it capable of subduing an entire Asian empire of players, who make up 80% of practitioners around the world. And a Western player has never been able to become world champion three times, nor have she ever won the coveted Olympic gold medal. Unique in history, the Huelva native plays badminton like no one else but Her wolf’s gaze on the court has been differential. And now we know that it all started when he was just eight years old.
His mother Toñi revealed it during a report ‘ADN Ganadora’ in Informe Semanal of TVE before the Andalusian goes to Oviedo to collect the Princess of Asturias Sports Award. “My daughter was transformed“He remembers about the beginnings in which he would go to see her train or play, surprising even the woman who gave him life: “At home she was such a good girl… She entertained herself by playing and never one word was louder than another. But that girl, How did you get that character out on the court?“.
And he says this because the Spanish legend had beginnings where he had to control his impulses, his desire to always win, because he went too far: “I saw that girl who was breaking the racket… boom! I was saying ‘this girl is the McEnroe of badminton’ . Come on, it was incredible. “I didn’t know my daughter!”
“His grandmother let him win at ludo so he could continue playing”
Carolina Marín coach
When we say that Carolina always wanted to win, it always means. “SI am very competitive, not only in badminton. Playing Parcheesi or any board game with friends and my family, I am very competitive.“, relates the player herself in the aforementioned report, something that her coach Fernando Rivas confirms with an anecdote from her childhood: “Winning comes as standard. I don’t know if she has recounted when she played Parcheesi with her grandmother and didn’t win, she picked up Parcheesi and didn’t play anymore. And then Grandma, in order to continue playing ludo, let herself win“.
It must be remembered that what is now, for many, the best player in the history of her sport left home very young, being just a child, to pursue a successful career away from her family. “My parents left me in Fernando’s hands when I was 14 years old and we have been together for almost 18 years.“, she confessed in Relevo a few weeks ago. It was the Granada coach who moderated her character, perfected her game — on many occasions she has confessed that “as a child she was bad” and that “she never thought she could become what she has been” — and, clearly, he achieved it.
A job that was hard and that his mother now confesses that “If I had known, maybe I wouldn’t have lasted”but it paid off. And there will always be the question of what would have been without injuries.
