In the Complex of Pools Baraguá, where during many years they knitted dreams and they worked until the exhaustion, they were discharged officially.
For: Eyleen Rivers López
Havana. – ALTHOUGH he/she always imagines that each homage or recognition will bring emotions, in occasions the reality overcomes that waited and that was what happened them today to José Antonio War and Linen Socorro, the most winning binomial of the one nailed Cuban.
In the Complex of Pools Baraguá, where during many years they knitted dreams and they worked until the exhaustion, they were discharged officially like part of the inauguration of the Central American Championship and of the Caribbean of Fond of the Swimming (CCCAN) that will have competitions here until Sunday.
To the infaltables recounts of that made during their careers, they united this time friends’ greetings sent from other parts of the world. It was incredibly moving to listen messages in English, Chinese or Russian, although the highest point marked it its old partners Jorge Betancourt and Erick Fornaris.
This last one even ended up dedicating him a fragment of the song Friend, a topic that it accompanied them in several moments of their lives and he/she woke up many memories this afternoon to a War that didn’t hide their happiness accompanied by their mother Oneida and their wife Cinthia.
“To have postponed this therefore time brought some bitter sensations and melancholy and today that debt was liquidated, and for that reason the happiness, I sit down more than satisfied by this honor that you/they have made to the one nailed Cuban”, he/she admitted War amid a ” rest ” of hugs and reclamos of pictures.
The best Cuban clavadista in all the times accumulated in total 146 medals, 114 of those international, included the only of an Antillean in a world championship: silver in Montreal 2005. For all that this Friday was homenajeado for the Cuban sport system, in ceremony headed by the president of the Inder Osvaldo C. Vento Montiller, and in the one that other institutions intervened.
Of their relationship with Linen admitted to feel it as of father to son; it recognized that it has been more time of their life next to him that with any other person of their family, and that of him he/she learned all that that now applies as trainers’ of the national team boss.
“We have countless vivencias, teachings, the print of Linen in me is enormous, and this moment a little that in an official way he/she gives culmination to that binomial that we form there in the year 98 and it is very moving… it is something that you receive, this of telling us good-bye is sad”, he/she accepted to say. I Want to thank to all, to the many that had to do especially with this that happened here, to Miracles González (commissioned national) who worked very strong this debt that there was not with José Antonio War, to get paid but with the one nailed, with Linen, with all the boys, with the parents, with everybody who he/she has had to do with the development of this sport so pretty”, he/she admitted.
The CCCAN distributes today its first four games of medals, he/she will have activity until Sunday and they are 12 the involved countries.