Iyana Martín: “I live every day as if it were my last”

Iyana Martinbest player of the match in the victory of Spain against Japan (59-79), lives each day “as if it were the last, without thinking about how old” he is, he said at a press conference this Monday in Berlin after another great game and becoming the first player under 21 years old to score 20 points in two consecutive games.

“I focus on playing basketball. I don’t have the wisdom of a veteran. I let myself be carried away by instinct. Everything consists of continuing to learn. The World Cup is an intense, high-level competition, in which the details matter,” said the leader of a Spain which is already in the quarterfinals of the Women’s World Cup.

“I’m on a team where I can be myself, have a good time,” she added.

Precisely, her teammate Maite Cazorla He said of the Oviedo base that he has “a self-confidence and a maturity that is to be admired.”

In a mixed zone, they also spoke in the Max-Schmeling-Halle the Maite players Cazorla and Rachel Career. Both agreed that the team will benefit from these “48 hours to rest and prepare for the next match”, in which Spain will face the winner of the round of 16 duel between Australia and, still to be decided, Italy or China.

But Career He has no preference, since the national team has shown that it knows how to adapt “to different styles of play.”

“We have known how to suffer and we have been persistent. We knew that they were a team of streaks, even if they scored 3 triples we knew that we had to continue,” said the Canary Islands base after the long-suffering victory against the Japanese country, which the final result does not reflect how close the match was.