Nené Russo, a lifetime
Baby Russo is one of the four two -time champions in the world of Argentine hockeya record that holds with Luciana Aymar, Soledad García and Claudia Burkart, but that is a single part of Mariné. Mother, friend, companion and A lifetime that instills -day after days – the values and teachings that left him a decade of representing Argentina.
“The key in the lions is to pass the greatest to the smallest the essence that is still maintained from the beginning. While everything changes, the style is different and generations come different … Belonging to that privileged place continues to preserve and transfer the legacy to the new ones that are added ”.
Mariné is one of the so -called “Vintage lions“players who have successfully gone with the celestial and white and that the ruling of “ex-leona” does not define what they really are for the history of the national hockey. Today is given to the sport that loves so muchfrom another side, but with that sacred fire of growing sport in the place.
“I have my hockey starwith girls from four to seven years, With the idea of starting them so that they go to clubs with basic tools and not start from scratch. It gives parents the option to later enter institutions without having lost time. They are girls that surely would not have gone to a club and began like thousands of children to do football. I offered this in hockey. It has limited quotas, of course, because It is super personalized, which is what I like”Russo mentioned.
And that’s not all, in the school he puts the body, but it is also the mind of a tournament in his native Berazategui: “I also work in a Municipal Hockey League, which is like a minitor of the Association of Buenos Airesfor promotion societies, sports center, neighborhood clubs and some closed neighborhoods. In the league it is 100% organization, I am the one that diagram the assembly of the championship and makes it work. The Sundays are played, from tenth division to the first, as if it were the AHBA tournament. ”
Before entering the assembly of tournaments, Baby He disputed them and told this medium how the final stretch of his career as a hockey player was: “At the club level I left the following year of the pandemic, in 2021 with Hacoaj. Then I made almost one year old in the second of Quilmeswith my friends, But I didn’t find myself at the time, Go at six in the afternoon, when everyone finished playing, you just started, I returned at ten and peak at night, in winter, you give it to you … So I said, ‘Well, that’s it’. No more hockey “Mariné confessed.
“And the truth that I did not miss later. Yes the adrenaline of competition, but not everything that leads to be suitable to play. So I entertain myself with the gym, which I love, go for a run. Quieter things”
Russo entered the lions shortly before 2000the year of break forever, the birth of the badge that drove sport, but it did not care so much the name but to be part of something much bigger that they were instilled since he began training with the selection: “I had to enter a team that came at its highest peak. While I trained for Sidney, I was out on the last list, I didn’t understand anything, absolutely nothing, it came from a club that we were very down in the categories, So for me it was to enjoy the simple fact of training in a synthetic and with them. I already had everything won. Then when the opportunity of the Perth World Cup came, I made the decision to change my club, In 2002 Luis Ciancia told me that he did want to get, I had to make a change and for me it was tremendous to have to change my club, But at the same time I also wanted to dream of playing a World Cup. So it was a year of many movements”
Mariné had to enter a squad that was already armedbut within that situation he managed to take his place and achieved, without caution, to be to be: “Maybe in tournaments where I had more pressure to be a starter, or already had a place, I tried to return to the basein that Nelly Giscafré helped me, which always told me: ‘When you are and you are having fun, you smile, you play well, when you do not smile, chau’. And then I always tried to return to that place and in 2002 it was pure laugh and the truth is that the greatest always gave us the most girls of the time. ”
Nené was also encouraged to make a parallel with the things he visualizes on campus 2025 of the National Teamtaking into account its various moments with the celestial and white: “I was in different litters, groups and myself in different roles and the change is abysmal when everything is in harmony and each one knows its role … you do well, you Beyond being a champion or not I consider that you are doing well when you can do what you trained in a tournament. That today I notice when I watch the girls on TV, I see it on the faces, there are certain gestures, complicity … this team is going well because it looks in the looksin the smiles, in the hug of goals that looks like a pawn but It shows when a hug is genuine that no matter who has done it”Said the multiple Olympic medalist.
Regarding the feeling that he has today with the current lionsRusso knows well what he’s talking about, It is an unwavering feeling that exceeds the limit of time and she revalidates it every time they come with her vintage companions: “That group we try, at least, once a month together. Our meetings are wonderful, we all agree that in those together we find what we wereor those of us, in pure essence, with children, over time, with losses, with everything that leads you to life but in those meetings we are again and Today we understand that we were privileged to have done what we were passionate about and liked”
And he added, “Our 80% of the time was the selected and think trips, objectives, tournaments, then we love to join and we are happy when we see each other and then we are unconditional today in everything that happens to usit is the pure friendship we have and it is a litter that was very close, ”said the two -time champion of the world.
Finally, Mariné was encouraged to tell what that part of the road meant in his life and how he extrapolated it to the different areas that integrates: “It is a lifestyle, what I learned I took it to my daily life, in the same way that I did all and took each challenge as an opportunity. Nor are we going to romantize getting up at six in the morning and going to run in the rain, But when you are doing a sport with all the values, because it is not that we were a group of friends who were going like an uncontrolled band, we were representing the country, which carries a responsibilityand I am like that at work, as a friend, as a daughter … Everything, I try to be the same then I cannot be more grateful to have had the fortune and the luck of having been so long in the selection. For me, without a doubt, it was a privilege to have been a lioness“, Gaspar and Simón’s mother ended.
