Updated:01/11/2021 15:29h
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Anna Cruz, a player for the Spanish basketball team, has announced her resignation from the national team, where she has achieved numerous successes for more than a decade, with a harsh farewell letter in which she has confessed “sad” and regretted that “to the family it’s not like that ”, a situation in which he has decided to put his“ well-being and health before any medal ”.
«Today I decide to put an end to my stage in the national team. It is very difficult for me to deal with certain things on a day-to-day basis that do not conform to what I understand with the professionalism of this sport: respect and dignity towards professionals who have a successful career behind their backs. At 34 years old, and already lived a lot, I think it is totally unnecessary to continue tolerating acts that go against my principles and, before what I have experienced turns bitter, I prefer to separate our paths. I also have power, the power to decide who I work for and who I don’t, “Cruz denounced in a letter posted on his Twitter account.
Thank you and goodbye. pic.twitter.com/H5Ne69PiQr
– AnnaCruz (@ CruzAnna15) January 11, 2021
Therefore, the player understands that “it is time to put an end to this situation and say goodbye.” “With my head held high knowing that I have always given everything for this team that was once my family and that it will cease to be because I understand that the family is not treated like that. It is a pity that the leadership of this team has not been used in a coherent way and is used, on occasions, to harm people who more than once have taken the chestnuts out of the fire, “he lamented, without specifying details.
The escort leaves the “sad” national team. «It is not the end that I would have imagined to a whole decade full of successes, but it is a thoughtful and cold decision, where I put my well-being and my health before any medal. I am well aware that there is an Olympic Games just around the corner and to play them is the dream of any athlete and, although I am not the only one who has felt or feels this way, I understand and respect all points of view and opinions » , valued.
In addition, Cruz wanted to “wish all the luck in the world” to his colleagues “current and future who will defend the shirt of the Spanish team that so many times” they have “defended with commitment, honesty and professionalism.” “I am sure that they have the sufficient category and quality to follow the brilliant path that Spanish women’s basketball has been demonstrating for a long time, above names and people,” he concluded.
The current player of the Casademont Zaragoza In this abrupt way closes a brilliant stage in the national team, with which he has played 158 games and has hung a total of eight medals between the Olympic, World and European Games.
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