The president of the RFEBM will analyze the options of the ‘Guerreras’ in the championship, which will be held in Spain from December 1 to 19
MADRID, 22 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The president of the Royal Spanish Handball Federation (RFEBM), Francisco Blázquez, will review the present and future of national handball and the challenge of the next Women’s World Cup in Spain this Tuesday (10:00 am) at the Europa Press Sports Breakfasts, act to be held at the Meeting Place Castellana Auditorium in Madrid.
Francisco Blázquez will analyze in the EP Sports Breakfasts, sponsored by DAZN, Loterías y Apuestas del Estado, Repsol and UnicajaBanco, the options of the ‘Guerreras’ and the latest news from the next Women’s World Championship, which is held from 1 to 19 December in Torrevieja, Granollers, Llíria and Castellón.
The president of the Spanish Olympic Committee (COE), Alejandro Blanco, will be the presenter of Blázquez. The event, which will follow all health recommendations for the coronavirus, will be attended by the general director of ADO, José Antonio Fernández; the director of the Spanish Agency for the Protection of Health in Sports, José Luis Terreros; and the vice president of the COE, Isabel Fernández.
This forum is the third of the fourteenth season of EP’s ‘Desayunos Deportivos’, after the president of the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF), Luis Rubiales, inaugurated it in mid-July shortly after Spain was a semifinalist in the 2020 Eurocup, and the president of the Spanish Paralympic Committee (CPE), Miguel Sagarra, shared the success of the Paralympic athletes at the Tokyo 2020 Games.
In previous courses, the women’s soccer coach, Jorge Vilda, and the internationals Amanda Sampedro, Mariona Caldentey and Silvia Meseguer spoke about their participation before traveling to the World Cup in France. Later, under the title of ‘Motor, with’ M ‘for woman’, the pilots Ana Carrasco, the first woman world champion in Supersport 300, took part; Sara García, world champion of casualties; Tatiana Calderón, the first woman to participate in Formula 2, and Marta García, the only Spanish driver in the WSeries.
The president of the CPE himself, Miguel Carballeda; Teresa Perales, the Spanish athlete with the most medals (27) in the Paralympic Games; the athlete Gerard Descarega, Paralympic, world and European champion in 400 meters; and cyclist Ricardo Ten, world champion in track and route and bronze in Tokyo, offered an X-ray of the national Paralympic sport before the initial postponement of Tokyo 2020 due to the pandemic.
Under the title, ‘Repsol, 50 years of support and triumphs in motor sport’, Carlos Sainz, two-time world rally champion and three-time Dakar champion and 2019 Princess of Asturias Award for Sports; Jorge Martínez ‘Aspar’, quadruple world champion in motorcycling and named ‘MotoGP Legend’; and Toni Bou, twenty-nine times trial world champion, analyzed the origin and causes that have made Spain a world power in motorcycling and motorsports.
The president of the Royal Spanish Federation of Winter Sports (RFEDI), May Peus; the head of Women and Snow of the RFEDI, Paula Fernández-Ochoa, the rider Regino Hernández, bronze in the 2018 PyeongChang Games, and the Olympic skier Juan del Campo spoke of the legacy of Blanca Fernández-Ochoa.
And the general manager of the Movistar Team, Eusebio Unzué, the ex-cyclists Pedro ‘Perico’ Delgado, Ángel Arroyo and Pablo Lastras and the former road cycling world champion Alejandro Valverde reviewed the 40 years of successes ‘From Reynolds to Movistar’, whose riders they had added 930 victories, and seven Tours, four Giros, four Vueltas a España and four World Championships.
MAIN ACTORS OF NATIONAL SPORTS
In previous campaigns, the main protagonists of national and international sport have paraded through the ‘Sports Breakfasts’, as is the case of managers of clubs, sports organizations and entities and athletes and ex-athletes of multiple disciplines.
Among them, the first president of the CSD, María José Rienda, her predecessors Jaime Lissavetzky, Albert Soler, José Ramón Lete and Miguel Cardenal, and the predecessors, Irene Lozano and José Manuel Franco; the president of LaLiga, Javier Tebas, that of the RFEF, Luis Rubiales, of the AFE, David Aganzo, of the ACB, Antonio Martín, and of the Spanish Basketball Federation (FEB), Jorge Garbajosa.
Likewise, the president of the Board of Directors of Real Valladolid, Ronaldo Nazario de Lima; that of Atlético de Madrid, Enrique Cerezo, and the now president of FC Barcelona, Joan Laporta, and the former of Real Madrid Ramón Calderón, the former national soccer coach Vicente del Bosque and the former coach of Liverpool and Real Madrid Rafa Benítez.
Presidents of national federations occupied this agora of sport, the then president of the Athletes Association (AD) Cayetano Martínez de Irujo, the Olympic champions Lydia Valentín and Carolina Marín; riders Marc Márquez, Dani Pedrosa, Jorge Lorenzo, Maverick Viñales, Álex Crivillé, and the ’12 +1 ‘times world champion Ángel Nieto; Marc Coma and Stephane Peterhansel, ‘Monsieur Dakar’; the swimmers Rafa Muñoz, Aschwin Wildeboer and Mireia Belmonte, the ‘synchro’ Ona Carbonell and Raquel Corral, and the golfer Miguel Ángel Jiménez.
Likewise did the General Director of MAPFRE in the Volvo Ocean Race (VOR), Pedro Campos, the skipper of the Spanish challenge, Xabi Fernández, and the crew Támara Echegoyen, the first Spanish in the history of the regatta, and Joan Vila, considered as the best navigator in the world; and the world champion coaches José Vicente ‘Pepu’ Hernández, Paco Antequera and Javier Lozano, current president of the National Futsal League (LNFS).
There was no shortage of ex-cyclists Miguel Indurain, five-time Tour champion; Alberto Contador, double winner of Giro and Tour and three-time champion of La Vuelta; Joaquim ‘Purito’ Rodríguez; and the best Spanish athlete and basketball player of all time, Fermín Cacho and Amaya Valdemoro.
The former mayor of Madrid Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón, and the former CEOs of the Madrid 2016 and Madrid 2020 Olympic candidacies, Mercedes Coghen and Víctor Sánchez, analyzed the options of the project of the capital of Spain to organize the second Olympic Games in the country.
INTERNATIONAL PRESENCE: IOC, NBA AND JJOO
Representatives of international organizations were also at the ‘breakfasts’ such as the then vice president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the Spanish Juan Antonio Samaranch Salisachs; former London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Legacy Ambassador Lord Sebastian Coe, current President of World Athletics, former IAAF; former UK Ambassador to Spain Giles Paxman; former Managing Director of the Volvo Ocean Race (VOR) Knut Frostad, and former Deputy Managing Director of ASO Yann Le Moenner.
In addition, the Extraordinary Secretary of Security for Major Events of Brazil, Andrei Augusto Passos, the Executive Director of the Euroleague, Jordi Bertomeu, the Ambassador of France in Spain, Yves Saint-Geours, and the vice president of NBA for Europe, Middle East and Africa, the Spanish Jesús Bueno, are on the list of participants.