The former Real Madrid basketball coach, ‘Jota’ Hombrados, Emilio Mínguez and Javier Lorente talked about motivation in Guadalajara
MADRID, 25 Abr. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The former coach of Real Madrid and current national under-16 basketball coach Ángel González Jareño stated that professional sport “has invaded training” at the conference ‘Motivation, culture and sport’, organized this weekend by Populares Guadalajara in the Main Casino of the capital of Alcarria.
“I miss thinking about who is being trained. I miss a ‘Plan B’ for the boys. Professional sport has invaded training. Everyone wants to win and we have forgotten about training,” he lamented. in a round table with the former handball player José Javier Hombrados, the former world champions of Kenpo Emilio Mínguez and of paratriathlon Dani Molina, and the sports director of Movistar Inter, Javier Lorente.
For his part, José Javier ‘Jota’ Hombrados, the player with the second most caps (260) with the ‘Hispanos’ -only surpassed by David Barrufet- and who retired at the age of 49, underlined the importance of having a ‘Plan B’ “because the objectives can be truncated”, of the psychological factor and of knowing how to delegate.
Emilio Mínguez said that athletes must know how to “optimize” resources and spoke of the fact that martial arts have given him “control” and “rigorousness”, while Javier Lorente highlighted the need to know how to surround himself with “an exceptional work group”, as well as the values when signing a futsal player. “If he’s not a good person, I won’t sign him,” he said.
The paratriathlete Dani Molina participated telematically, who disputed the Gandía Triathlon this Sunday and underlined the steps that have been taken towards the inclusion and improvement of the ADOP Plan scholarships, but demanded more aid for Paralympic sport to advance in the standardization.
PRADA AND ‘THE QUEEN’ GUTIERREZ
The day dealt with various thematic round tables such as elite sports and training, entrepreneurship, communication, advertising and marketing and reading, coinciding with the celebration this past Saturday of International Book Day.
The president of the Fundación Siglo Futuro, Juan Garrido, was the moderator of the talk on ‘We read to know that we are not alone’, in which the writer Juan Miguel de Prada, winner of the Planeta Prize in 1997 with ‘La tempestad’, took part, and the journalist Carmen Sánchez Alegre, author of the book ‘Shall we talk about suicide?’
The Spanish boxer Miriam Gutiérrez, known as ‘The Queen’, who has held the title of interim women’s lightweight champion of the World Boxing Association since 2019, also intervened to address the use of new technologies, drug use and violence. gender at the Family and Youth table.
Directed by Armengol Engonga and Eladio Freijo, from the deputy secretaries of Training and Ideas and Capital of the Populares Guadalajara group, this training session on Motivation, culture and sport also included the actress María Pedroviejo, the legal adviser José Miguel Peñas and the journalist Gaspar Díez, editor-in-chief of Europa Press, as moderators.