Vale raposo, the lioness that constantly reinvents itself
Valentina Raposo Ruiz de los Llanos He closed the 2024 full of new experiences that changed the course of his head, He experienced what it is to live alone, play in the best League in Europe and crowned his season returning to his place in the world: Salta capital, to load energies, but life gave it a setback that made it recalculate any future decision.
“The 2025 I started it movedpersonally I had a very large loss. A cousin died, who was like my brother. It was a hard blow because he died and the next day he had to be in Buenos Aires, training with the national team. I really rethink everything, But I decided to go with the team because I knew they were going to give me that little push I needed to start the year again”
Okay He emphasized in the help of the lions to travel the turbulence of that moment: “I think this is special, Maybe when you are down, or in the worst of yours, it takes you up, it drives you to love more, to be better and they are things that I value a lot”
Raposo broke into the international hockey in 2021since then he dazzled by the temperance he exercised at his early age, becoming a fixed selected, But what made him maintain was his way of walking with the mind in the sky and staying with his feet on the ground: “Sometimes I think and say ‘Five years ago I was in Salta’ And I had no idea that I was going to be living all this now. Maybe in the maelstrom of everyday life we forget where we are standing and it is a pride, a privilegea dream that you have since childhood and I try to value it every day”
Valentina is the smallest reference of this national team, with 18 years she traveled to her first Olympic Games and from there she suckled the meaning of what the lionone that carries on her left side represents: “The lions are above all thingsthey teach you once you enter here and represent these colors. Leave life on the shirtby the companion I have next, those are our bases always. It is really a pride to be part of what it means to be a lioness”
Also, Raposo introduced himself even more in his experiences and the conclusion he took into his introspection: “When I see the team general Being part of the same group of different provinces, with different customs, beliefs, it is very crazy to have in common what it represents to be a lioness. I think that’s what I like, the mystique I have and love”
After the Games of Paris 2024, Valentina took her suitcases, traveled to the Netherlands and undertook a journey that transformed many things in her way of seeing life: “It was a super new experience for meknow how life is in Europe, play in another club outside Argentina, be alone, learn English … There were several objectives that I put on and I am very happy to have taken those challenges”, He began counting Rapi About her days as a professional player.
“I grew a lot, every game is a challenge”
“I started playing Libero, which I am now trying in the national team and I loved the position. I have another responsibility in the team, I think it is learning day by day, just my club is mid -table, each game is a challenge, it came out dead because they are as the end, we live and play it like that. Now I have the other half, three more months to full to give the best to the team and be able to continue raising the level”, Said the defender.
In addition to the hockistic level with which he ranked They are worththe support he received in his institution, with the situation that personnel lived, was something to highlight and will remain forever in his retina: “What surprised me was the human quality in the team and in the club’s leaders about what was happening to mebecause my cousin began to be wrong and I really didn’t expect me to tell me, ‘If tomorrow you want to go back to Salta, you turn to you, the hockey is below the family’. I went with the idea that everyone was cold, and although in part it is true that they are more distant, I really valued the gestures they had because we are first people, and then follow the other”
“We want the great medal at the Olympic Games”
Raposo already has a voice and vote on the squad of Argentina, it is a key file for the selected one and thus took the floor to refer to the following challenges of the lionesses: “We have several pending quotas. In the short term, Pro League to add many points, which is what we want most; Also consolidate the system and that every time we get better to have more confidence. Then, as a general goal in the year, there is the Copa América, very important to classify the World Cup. As a goal there, Top, we want the great medal at the Olympic Games. There are always goals, and if there are no, as a player you are imposing it when being here all day, with the selection, having personal challenges to continue learning is the key. ”
To end with any story to countthe Okay He also analyzed her role in the team and what she tries to instill: “I consider myself a very quiet person, I try to contribute that in Las Leonas, always be positive and with good energy. I am a believer that when the squad is fine, everything flows, then I try to give from that side too, beyond the court, That the atmosphere is healthy and that I think is what I like to take the team most”, Ruiz de los Llanos ended.
