2023-07-11 20:27:29
Los South American Beach Games 2023 (Odesur) will begin next Friday in Santa Marta, Colombia, and for a week will have the best athletes from the continent in different summer disciplines looking to leave their country on the top of the podium. The Argentine delegation will be made up of 108 competitors, in which several regional.
He beach handball is one of the fastest growing sports in recent years and the albiceleste teams have a lot of presence of players from Río Negro and Neuquén. In men they stand out Nicholas Millet (IFES, Neuquen), Lucas Coronel (Centennial) and Santino Sposito (Sol de Mayo, Viedma). In ladies, meanwhile, are: Agostina Arcajo (Deportivo Goliath, Viedma) and Gisela Bonomi (IFES, Neuquén).
After the excellent results in the Global Tour of beach handball, where both branches were left with the silver medal in the car in their respective finals once morest Brazil, the Argentina goes for everything in Santa Marta and dreams of being a gold medal in the South American Games.
Regarding the lists of that tournament and what the Rosario 2019 Games were, both coaches had to deal with the reduction of two athletes per team regarding those tournaments.
Nicolás Millet: “We want to leave Argentina as high as possible”
Before leaving for Colombia, Neuquén defender Nicolás Millet spoke with “Entre Redes” from RÍO NEGRO RADIO regarding the expectations for this new edition of the Odesur Beach Games.
«We will try leave Argentina as high as possible. Some time ago we started this process where we seek to always fight on top and we want to reduce the difference that there was always with Brazil, the rival to beat on the continent”, warned the IFES player.
Regarding preparation, Nicolás indicated that despite the climatic difficulties we have in the region, they arrive with good training and a great preseason. «We are in the middle of winter and it is a bit complicated for us but it is what it touches. Those of us from the interior we spent the last few months in Buenos Aires. We train every day at Cenard, where we do a while in the gym and then we go to the court where we put on neoprene socks and all thermal clothing on top, “he explained.
The great objective for these Games is to be able to hang the gold medal and beat Brazilrival that surpassed them in the final of the Global Tour that was played months ago. «We want to win, a couple of years ago beating them was seen as something impossible and today we already set it as a goal. That and looking for the championship », he added.
Nicholas Millet is already one of the historic players of the Argentine beach handball team, Despite his young age. With the tranquility of having carried out a good preparation, travels together with the rest of the regionals to represent Argentina and to the region internationally.
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