Anabel Gambero, from German of Quilmes to the 2000 Sydney Games

Anabel Gambero escapes the mediait is not prone to the notes or the exhibition, But the 25 years of the lions turned out to be the perfect excuse to open the doors of their club to AM850.com and dialogue, from the place that was born sportingly, On the anniversary of the sacred fire that runs through the veins.

To start, Ann He dared to develop the meaning of being a lioness and remembering the most pleasant steps of his sports life next to the selection: “It is a very big pride. Although one after so many years he looks a little outside everything. When the tournaments come, when I see them, I feel like I am there helping them from outside. I think you have the pride of having been and participated in all those tournaments and those moments of, for example, sometimes listen to the anthem and get excited. Because I know what they are feeling for having lived it. “

Of the chaos of the storm, to the illusion for being shine

Argentina ran into Sydney with an error of interpretation of the tournament, in which it passed to the final phase without any accumulated point and should beat the Netherlands to aspire to get as far as they had raised.

“At the time it was half chaos, everything came down, But then we had emotional talks and we got up. We arrived with a goal, which was to hit the jump there. I think everyone, individually felt it, From one day to the next we didn’t care about being with zero points, to have less possibilities than other countries. ”

“Game by game we were noticing that we were close to achieving it. We knew that Australia was very hard, but when we got to the final we played equally. We didn’t care, we were there and we knew we could win or not, but we left everything knowing that we did everything we could do”Gambero testified.

“We are not left with anything to leave”

After the final, and with the adverse result in the Golden Party, everything was pain for defeat … But the unease did not last long: “I remember that it was a few minutes of sadness, But immediately we remember everything we were happening what we arrived at. We were really playing a final in an Olympic game and we had taken a silver medal. There we started to celebrate everything we had achieved. The Australians looked at us and could not believe. It seemed that we had won us, but for our team it was a tremendous achievement, in the end we took out all that we had been carrying since the tournament began and we unleashed happiness”

But Anabel’s trajectory began much earlieralmost as much as the first instant that click to devote himself fully to what made her happy: “I think it was at the time they summoned a group to go to Capital, to the Friends Club, and that is where I met Jor (Rimoldi), Vana (Oneto), Paulita Castelli and started training in the syntheticwith more outstanding players and it came out as I wow! I got to another place today. That’s when I realized that I had to strive to continue and I found the goal to get to the National Team”

To understand all this story, you also have to emphasize the exercise and support you achieved in her German of Quilmes to reach the top: “The club was very important, here I started enjoying the sport and I kept enjoying it for years. I have my best friends, who wanted me to try to continue playing and thanks to that to get to the National Team. I always say that I thank you for Diego Allona (Also a German player and the male selected) who was my coach, who insisted and helped him move forward, I could with the years accentuating me and enjoy this ”.

At present, despite all the shortcomings and precariousness that is the Cenardthose selected have a place to get together … but it was not always: “There was a year that we trained at eleven o’clock at the Marangoni property, Because there was a syntheticwe started eleven until one in the morning and You say now we would not go or crazybut we were going. It’s like the group was fine and we did what they told us and it seemed good to us”Ana said.

And I continue: “We had to put our own strokes and then you took them. Later we had to go to train other places, such as that they were notifying you where it touched you, because there was no definite place where they trained the selections. The truth was very different”

But within all that context, what led her to Gambero to mobilize from the southern part of Buenos Aires to pursue a dream that began to be clearer over time? “I think he went more through the group that was putting together, because I began to enjoy playing with the girls, I knew I was more demanding and I was not upset. That was what led me to want to continue being, In addition, when you start to see those that were already in the selection and see the shirt, it’s like that is going to want to be”

Beyond the passion for sport, integrate a good human group and defend their country, there was an instant that changed everything forever and the midfielder told this medium: “The moment you click, that you spend images of all kinds, the effort you made to get, your family, your friends, your club, you spend a lot of things. It is when you listen to the hymn, I do not know if responsibility, but it is like a responsibility that you have to wear the shirt on and play. Sometimes it is difficult to explain it in words, but it is a tremendous pride, it is to transfer all the effort and training you did for years. “

After everything lived, for everything deliveredhe had to spend time for Ana to understand the magnitude of the legacy she had created with her companions: “I think it was a few years after being outside, of looking at them, of seeing the continuity of how the generations were changing, which were still in the first positions in the podiums and always proud of having been able to start that and that it could have been maintained. Not all teams could. Australia in the 90s was tremendous, it was an unstoppable team and then it was never the same again. However, we could. I think that, Netherlands he succeeded, China also had its moment and then disappeared. Generally when generational changes came some teams lowered the level and we knew, luckily, keep us”

The lion’s badge, at the moment indicated to perpetuate the legacy

“Thank God, The theme of the lionesses came out at the right time and the same must happen to us, the pride of continuing to represent that lioness generation after generation and that it has remained and that they all feel it as we feel it in the first moment”

Regarding the current players, there is one that is special for Anabel, not only that it is the most enjoyment of seeing in the country But I love (Agostina) Alonso, I feel that it is that five that ceased to exist and she has those conditions of five, to distribute, to go, to come. Then it is difficult because the type of game changed a lot. I love how Agos plays and it should be because I feel that he has similar characteristics to those he had ”.

Gambero knows that female hockey has a large pending spine and is the maximum medal in the Olympic Games, but knows that calm and attitude will be essential to achieve that goal: “You have to be patient, continue working because things are being done well, because for years and years we always kept the podium and we were there one step and I am also sure that it will arrive. But well, for me you have to go to the tournaments to play them and do to look for gold, but also not forget that each game must be left and we have to play it because the games do not win before starting, ”the historic lioness ended.