The Chilean women’s field hockey ringed a dream 2022 season. He played a historic first adult World Cupin Spain and the Netherlands, and conquered the gold medal in the Odesur of Paraguay with a great triumph over Argentina in the final.
Y key piece in this solid performance is the experienced Argentine coach Sergio ‘Cachito’ Vigilwho since the end of 2015 has directed the Chileans.
Las Diablas set the bar high last year and for what is to come, the former coach of the Leonas de Argentina assured in dialogue with BioBioChile that still hungry for wins and does not renounce glory with the combined.
“How good it is to always have the highest bar. From the first day we met the team and together with the staff we set out to be each day a little better than the day beforein all aspects: technical, tactical, physical, mental, emotional, relational and human”, he declared.
“Last year was a good year. 2021 had also been, 2020 too, because each year we got better. Sometimes the result is numerical and important, other times the performance, and sometimes both,” she added.
Along the same lines, the gold winner in a World Cup (2002), a Champions Trophy (2001) and a Pan American Games (1999) with Argentina said that “we want our processes to grow and we want a 2023 that we can be better than in 2022”.
“Then, of course, the beauty of sport is that no one has control of the result, but if we have control of everything we can do to achieve it and we are working on it”, he complemented.
Regarding the expectations of the national team for the Pan American Games in Santiago 2023, the native of Buenos Aires indicated that “We want to give a medal to the sport of our country and also give a medal to hockey. We want to get that medal that helps the medal table of all sports in Chile”.
Note that Las Diablas ended in fourth place in the past Pan American Games in Lima, in 2019, following falling in the fight for bronze 1-5 once morest the United States.
‘Cachito’ was also consulted by the personal process and the Diablas squad before the sensitive death of Claudia Schülerhistoric goalkeeper of the national team that ceased to exist at 35 years old following a several month fight once morest cancer.
“Has been very hardvery sad, very complex and also a process where the team, the ‘diabla’ family, has shown your integritytheir human value, their camaraderie, their support,” he said.
“I feel admiration for each one of the team members because they have had a permanent commitment with Claudita, with her family and this has been reciprocal. It’s been a process of a loving I’ve never seen in my life,” he added.
Lastly, when asked how the private and state support for the discipline has been following a brilliant 2022, with important achievements, Vigil said that “we feel that every year there is more support. We have always felt supported and what we see is that this support grows to the extent that we are giving. The teams have to give first and from what they give they begin to receive”.
“When we say to give, it is not just a numerical result, since there may be circumstances in which you face super elite teams and you have to not be in the main positions, but I am sure that the country’s sports entities, what they observe , is work, effort and commitment”, he finished.
