Women’s Day Salomé García, 12 years on the court for the love of art and basketball

The shooting guard for the Unicaja women’s team, Salome Garcia, has been dedicating himself to basketball professionally for 12 years. When he was 16 years old he played in the prestigious Ros Casares academy. During the two years of the junior stage, he went up to play with the first team from time to time, where he shared the bench with players of the stature of Amaya Valdemoro or Laia Palau.

The following year, he began his professional stage in the Galician team Villagarcía de Arousa, where played for 9 years in Liga Femenina 1 and Liga Femenina 2. After passing through Galician lands, he played the season of confinement in Barcelona to, the following year, arrive in Malaga. The woman from Alicante celebrates her second season with the team Female Unibox, establishing herself as a player with experience and constant in her work. She is about to turn 30 and declares that if she were up to her, she would play and dedicate her life to basketball until her body could hold out, but she knows that is not possible.

“Both my colleagues and I dedicate ourselves to basketball practically for the love of art because we know that in the long run we will not be able to live from thisGarcia declares. The player states that “when the season ends, the revolution arrives”.

“When the season ends, the revolution arrives. We are four months unpaid”

“Most of us have contracts during the months that the season lasts, so we are around four months without income,” explains Salomé, who adds that they are forced to look for work at the end of the league. “It is difficult to approach the labor market because despite the fact that I have a degree in Physical Activity and Sports Sciences, I have no professional experience beyond basketball and I also have to spend the summer taking care of my physique to get ready for the next season”, explains the player.

Salomé values ​​the effort made by the club to bet on them: “we have just incorporated a new sponsor and that is a rush”, indicates the player who considers that the clubs “do what they can for them” and that the problem lies in the lack of economic independence they have, which translates into precariousness for the players.

“It is essential to have a plan B, I am studying to oppose the National Police, because you never know when this is going to end. The end of the season produces a lot of stress, you don’t know if you’re going to continue playing next year or where and as the years go by you look for greater stability and continue in the same city”.