“I have a great capacity for sacrifice in training, as well as being crazy about this sport”
MADRID, 16 Jul. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Catalan water polo player Unai Aguirre, goalkeeper for the Spanish team, thinks that his team will be “the rival to beat” during the Men’s World Championship in Fukuoka (Japan), which runs until July 30, so there will be no other team that “wants to play” against Spain, facing a tournament where “winning the final” is their main ambition.
“All the level teams in the tournament, if you give them the choice of any team, the only one they don’t want to play with is Spain. And those who want to play against Spain do so because they feel admiration for the team we are,” he said. commented Aguirre during an interview with Europa Press.
“I don’t think anyone today thinks that Spain is a team that can be beaten. Obviously they can beat us, but Spain is not an affordable team,” the goalkeeper insisted. He and his colleagues face this appointment with “great enthusiasm”, with the motivation of thinking that “if things are done well”, they can achieve “very nice things”. “The truth is that I only sign to reach the final and win it,” he added.
Spain is the current world champion and recently won the title in the World Cup -new coat of the old World League-, so Aguirre escapes the pressure. “On the contrary, we even have a little less because last year we were also the favourites; and having already won, you face it in a different way. You are already calm because you do not have the stress of whether you reach the final, have to win, or have to wait another year to do it”, the Catalan goalkeeper stated.
The CN Atlètic-Barceloneta player is usually the starting goalkeeper for the Spanish team despite his youth, something that does not weigh on him. “I wonder if I have the level”, he has argued. “If I have the level to be able to play and the abilities, the talent and the sacrifice, age does not prevent anything,” Aguirre stressed.
At 20 years old, he has stressed being “quite mature at the level of play” and also “very regular in his performance.” “I think I have a great capacity for sacrifice in training, as well as being crazy about this sport. I always try to demand the maximum from myself at all times, from the moment I start training until I leave the pool. I am a 24-hour water polo player “, he admitted.
Lastly, Aguirre praised the ability of his teammate in goal, Edu Lorrio. “He is very happy with me too, because we were both able to participate in the tournament and be part of the gold medal. Edu must be one of the best goalkeepers on the circuit saving penalties and he has shown it many times”, Aguirre concluded about the title won in 2022 during the World Cup played in Budapest (Hungary).