Lucina von der Heyde: “I always think about the Argentine National Team”

Luchi, Lu, LucyLucina and so many ways to call Von der Heyde. The one that was once chosen as the best player in the Junior world, the same one that – a time before – captained the last team of Leoncitas to get champions of everything, the one who went to play Germany to live from sport and thus help his family. That is the one that turned off the cassette, turned on the sound of his beats and left a phrase that resonates anyone who enjoys his hockey: “The doors are open”.

The afternoon fell on the Belgrano Athletic court, River Plate had lost the crossing against Ducilo in the Buenos Aires Cup and with that result he said goodbye to 2024 on the site located in Pilar. After some cries, and many hugs, Lucina von der Heyde approached her word to dialogue about her feeling when she was again in the country and close to a synthetic with The Red Band crossing his chest, but, on that occasion, from the outside side.

“Every time I come to Argentina I try to be with the River girlsto be able to help them or be part of the training, because I cannot play but I try to be close”Lucina, like all players who work abroad, cannot play official matches for a determination of the Association of Buenos Aires.

“It gives me happiness and, at the same time, a lot of sorry because I would like to be able to share with them on the court the little time I am hereto go from training them to also try to convey a bit of my experience. It is a happiness to see them so big, I drop my tear of seeing them in the first”Said Luchi.

Lucina decided years ago to take the opportunity that was presented to him, reside in the old continent and form a life on the other side of the world: “With the situation in Argentina, Germany is a very stable country to live. Economically I am not worrying if I get to the end of the month and, above all, the quality of life. I can be walking down the street at two in the morning and I don’t have to be looking back worried about whether I’m going to get healthy and save my house. I found that in Europe, something that had it in Misiones and when I came from very small to Buenos Aires I had not paid attention or valuing what I lived in my province. Obviously the social is surprised, which is very different in Europe that here, but I am also lucky to be able to live from the hockey and I will squeeze it to the maximum I can, until my legs say: ‘Ready, you can not run more‘”

Luchi He arrived in the Teuton country with the antecedent that Florencia Habif, Gonzalo Peillat, Guido Barreiros were there and various Argentines who had played with the colors of the Mannheimerbut I could not imagine how reference she would become for the club: “Usspeaking in plural because I believe that Flor and Agus (habif) must feel the same, We made history at the club. It is satifactory to be able to say, ‘We leave a mark on the club’. We gave everything, you enjoy a lot and when you are there you want more and more. Luckily we have the joy of being able to continue fighting all kinds of tournaments and I was fulfilled another of my dreams that was to play an EHL, which today is our motivation to start the year“said von der Heyde.

Failure is part of the sportit is what makes you strong in adversity to seek to grow in the face of posterity. The failure is assumed by the one who falls and tries again, the failed is the one who stays at home and I will prefer not to rise again: “Some will say, ‘You lost 10 finals, you are a failed’ and on the contrary, I feel that no matter how much I did not achieve the goal … I won a lot. I gained experience, knowing that I have to change to return and do things better. I won a lot of frustration, of feelings that I didn’t know what it was before … And keep trying, because if one does not try, he does not fight to achieve that goal, what does sport? It is my philosophy. Of course it hurts a lot and I don’t know how many times I told my mother ‘I don’t want I want to fight her again, fight her again, to achieve that goal”

“They have called me to play in the German team”

“If I see it for the professional, I super the economic side and the comfort of being in Europe, But I would like to represent my country. I don’t know if I’m going to have the chance or not, But I hope to return and do it in the best way. The little time I can, if I can do it. But the truth is that I told them: ‘Thank you very much, it is an honor to call me for a selection like Germany, which has so many medals, But it would cost me a lot to play for another country other than Argentina‘”

“I always think about the Argentine National Teamplaying for your country is the most beautiful thing that can happen to you. Now the leaders are from my litter, they are Agos, Majo, Gorze, Euge and it is crazy that it is so. It means that we are old and at the same time as it gives nostalgia to see your companions, with whom we spend so much together, in the Junior World Cup and others, be responsible for carrying the legacy”

“For me the doors are still open“

“When one says, ‘Che, time is ending, energy, you are no longer 18 or 21 years old, you are big.’ I know that the calls will be less and less, but for me the doors are still open. Today I have to wait to see if the coach who is, and I see if I want to leave my life again and get back into that process, which when leaving is very difficult to return”He emphasized Luchi.

And he added, “If the call arrives I will sit down to think about it and if not, I also understand that I prioritized and chose other things that I do not regret, But when I see the girls, I am very happy that they can be the referents today and I wish them the best because the love is always”

Von der Heyde He has traveled unforgettable moments thanks to sport, traveled to play World Cups and Olympic Games, but he had courage to define the meaning of hockey in his life: “The truth is that it gave me everything, I never imagined the career or life I have today and everything that happened. My dream was just playing on a grass court and I went to do it in Pasto to be playing with the lions in a very short term. If I think about nor in the best possible scenarios I would have imagined the life I have, but I think everything was to take it as learning”

To seal the note, Luchi He dared to decipher the content of his interior and that formula uses to pour inside her when she feels empty: “What fills my soul is knowing that I gave everythingbecause maybe where do people go to greet me and tell me, ‘Hi Luchi, how are you?’ And it is not that they run my face or remember me with a bad image, but I always went loyal to my principles and people could see it. Maybe I left a little sea, either in sports or in the human, and I think that is what fills me, that I was always faithful in every place I was”, Finish Lucina.