TORREVIEJA, April 13. (From the special envoy of EUROPA PRESS, Ferran Tuñón) –
The Guerreras player Jennifer Gutiérrez assured after beating Argentina (23-26) on the second day of the Torrevieja Pre-Olympic and achieving the ticket for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games that they will attend that event with a “blank paper” and ready to “fight for everything”, bringing out the Warrior spirit that they carry inside and that they assured they brought out against the Argentines.
“We know that it is up to us to be able to compete against anyone, but also to be very careful that we can mess with anyone. Blank paper and fight for everything in Paris,” she said in statements to Europa Press after achieving Olympic qualification.
Jenni Gutiérrez assured that they had been waiting “for a long time” for this Pre-Olympic. “We come from not having a very good season (poor performance in the World Cup) and I think the team has worked a lot, we have recovered from difficult moments and we have achieved it,” she celebrated.
“We knew it was going to be a complicated game, we are two teams that we don’t know much about, many of their players play in our league and I think that is a double-edged sword, both we and they know well what we want to play,” he acknowledged.
“We were 60 minutes away from being able to go to the Games and I think that that extra pressure, plus the physical exhaustion of the match against the Czech Republic, has diminished us a little. But in the end the important thing is that we have been able to get it out. When the legs are heavy and the whole body is heavy, what pulls are the desire and the heart, the identity of Guerreras,” highlighted the CSM Bucuresti player.
“We just got the ticket to Paris. The first objective is to enjoy this, to know that Spain is going to be represented in Paris and from there, to work. To see who is playing, which group, but above all to enjoy the experience and to give our best,” she said about what could happen this summer in the Olympic championship.
On a personal level, after an injury that prevented him from being in the last World Cup, he assured that he really wanted to return to the national team. And against Argentina she was the ‘MVP’. “In the end, this award, being extreme, belongs to my teammates who pass the ball to me, things as they are and it must be said,” she noted.
“In the end I really missed being able to play for Spain, being with my teammates in big competitions, and that has made me come here extra motivated,” she added about not being in the World Cup and being able to fight on the court for this Olympic ticket. And the left winger will experience her second Games, after being in Tokyo 2020.
And they will try to get to Paris 2024 as best as possible and go all out. “We have a group that mixes experience with youth, and we have several players who play in the highest competition. We all have to always play one hundred percent to be able to give our best and in Paris we will go with the option of everything,” he reiterated.