By José Francisco Reinoso Zayas
Sad to wake up in today’s dawn when when responding the call
phone, a glory of the Cuban athletics, Juan García Dumois, told me:
“We were been Riverí”. I met This way the father’s physical departure, formador,
teacher, trainer and directing Hermes Pausides Riverí.
Approximately three months ago, with reason of their 89 springs, figures
outstanding of basketball, fencing, soccer, athletics, bádminton, ball
Basque, oar, volleyball, next to friends and friends, family, specialists of
sport medicine and companies celebrated the man’s anniversary
admired, dear and respected, with the one it itches of the key and the song of happy
birthday.
Jovial as of habit, sensitive and until with the humid eyes we saw to
that gladiator of the Cuban sport in the activity of the Rock AMONG GOALS AND
PASSIONS, made in a beautiful living room of the Union of Jurists from Cuba, in
the Cuban capital.
There he/she remembered part of the life and work of that brown one, born in Santiago of
Cuba October of 1930, 29 who it was an excellent athlete in the century
XX until the point of achieving the silver medal in the relief of four for
four hundred plane meters during the Central American Games and of the Caribbean
of Guatemala in 1950, in union of Juan Suárez, Evelio Page and the eminent one
velocista pinareño Ángel García.
Specialist of 100, 200 meters and of the turn to the oval, Pausides Riverí
the hectómetro ran in 10,6 seconds, the 200 meters, in 21,4 and the 400 in
49,3
It played ball and in one year he/she became champion of I bat in the Union
Athletic Amateur that José directed Ocejo in the old county of East;
in the championship intercolegial of their native city, it was erected twice
champion batsman
In the encounter, it was also stood out their work like sport leader, then
it headed the advice of address of the formerly Superior School of
Athletic improvement, national, located ESPA where today the Club resides
Havana in the municipality Beach.
There we saw it, there we met them, there it arose the friendship and the affection for
the human being, demanding, understanding, worried by their students, to the one who
he/she requested discipline and at the same time he/she helped with their opportune advice.
Of that function, step to other, also formative because he/she worked as
athletics trainer and it contributed notably to the yield of three
sportsmen with regional, olympic and world results in the
disk specialty: the champion Central America and silver medallista in the one
containing María Cristina Betancourt, the subtitular of the orb in Helsinki
1983 luís Mariano Delís and the olympic queen from Barcelona 1992 Maritza
Marten.
For their work during so many years the Central American Confederation and of the one
Caribbean of Athletics selected it to integrate the Living room of the Fame of its
deport in the region in the añ0 2010.
Many merits accumulated in their brilliant trajectory Hermes Pausides Riverí,
but for about all their successes, it highlighted their principle position, the
honesty in the relationships and their love for the neighbor.
We were been Riverí, we were been a father, it doesn’t only stop their daughters, but
also for many of those that we met him and we appreciate their virtues.
Arrive to their family, to wife, to Lorena and it mates, those most felt ones
condolences of BETWEEN GOALS AND PASSIONS, of the athletics and of all the one
sport movement.