Valencia, Nov 12 (EFE).- Knowing how to go through the duel after retiring, training at the same time as one trains to reach the elite or being able to “forget” the adrenaline of the competition are some of the keys to the reintegration of a athlete, the former long jumper Concha Montaner, the former soccer player Santi Cañizares and the weightlifter Mónica Carrió coincided this Tuesday.
“On a resume you cannot say that I know how to jump and that I run a lot, but rather that I am tenacious, that I have the ability to lead teams and also that I am very meticulous in everything I do,” Montaner stressed in a talk in which Cañizares claimed ” the discipline and commitment” of elite athletes, than those who have not been “given anything.”
“Of course I would hire an elite athlete, because, in addition, being in sport means being away from more conflictive situations,” Cañizares said in a talk organized by the media YoSoyNoticia and the Department of Employment and Occupation in which Carrió claimed the importance of having been strong, “with sacrifice and effort”, to now be a police officer in Alzira.
The former player from Puertollano (Ciudad Real) stressed that although he knows the “success” of soccer, he has also lived with a minority sport like judo, because his father was a coach in that discipline and a “reference” in Spain, but “he had several clubs in the province of Ciudad Real and I had to work in the morning to support the family.
“Football also deceives you, there is elite football and football that feeds you, although in both it is satisfactory, because it allows you to do what you like, and that also happens with the rest of the sports,” commented the former Valencia goalkeeper at the end of the nineties and during the first decade of the 21st century.
For Montaner, a four-time Olympian, world bronze medalist and continental silver medalist, pregnancy changed all her sporting plans: “I got pregnant in 2008, I started losing sponsors and I started working as an administrator in 2010,” she noted.
“I start working and at the same time I am an athlete, but I have an impasse, because the girl needs care and I want to be with her, so I have to choose the competitions, because there was a baby who was suffering and, at the same time, my vacations were competitions,” he said.
However, he maintained that the situation “has improved” since 2000. “Today there is more aid, but in minority sports we need private projects to go hand in hand with public ones,” he stated.
Thus, Carrió insisted that this was the great challenge decades ago. “I left when I was twelve years old in Cheste, but since it was the beginning, it was not yet structured so that we could have training and training at the same time, so I had to finish the BUP later.
“And in sports as amateur as weightlifting, we have to be trained because when we finish, we have to work,” Carrió concluded. EFE
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