Today at “La Pachanga” we chatted in the first minutes of the program with Abanca pivot Ademar León Rubén Marchán (Manzanares, 1994). For the Ciudad Real player, bronze at the World Cup in Egypt is a “dream come true”, a third place that Marchán has achieved in his debut for the national team in a major competition.
The Ademarista pivot underlines in the tuning of COPE Castilla-La Mancha that the Spanish team played a “role” in the world championship where they only fell in the semifinals against the then champion Denmark, in addition to giving up a draw in the debut in their group versus Brazil.
Precisely, the difficulty from the beginning of the championship allowed “to enter fully into the competition since the rivals were complicated and, once they settled down, the team always went further and grew throughout the competition”.
Marchán was the direct protagonist in the play that was definitive in the fate of the semifinals match against the Danes since his launch, after beating goalkeeper Landin, crashed into the crossbar, and which he initially preferred not to see but which he later hit ” some turn that another “.
“It is clear that it was an action that left us all touched from the emotional point of view at that time, logically the first one, but the good thing about this tournament is that there was no time for regrets and the team showed how to overcome and squeeze what was left to achieve a very important medal, “he says.
Without wanting to make hypotheses about what could have happened, if they reached extra time and beat Denmark, Marchán believes that this victory “would have logically been a shot of positivism and motivation, but then they would have to overcome Sweden, which made a great championship and I would not have put, far from it, the simple things “.
The Ademarista pivot acknowledges that he himself was surprised by the prominence acquired in the position, “since he came as the rookie who had never been international in lower categories and who only arrived to add”, so perhaps he accused “pressure and nerves in the first matches, to later improve performance “.
What is clear to him is that the good relationship that joins his coach in Ademar, Manolo Cadenas, with the current coach, Jordi Ribera, “because he has very clear ideas and no one gives him away wearing the shirt of the Spanish team if not it is for the performance offered in his equipment “.
In that group that he considers “out of ten in all aspects”, there was no talk, as he reveals, of what can await them in a few months at the Tokyo Olympics “because there is still time ahead and the club competitions.”
What is certain is that the experience lived in Egypt in the “bubble” of the organization to which, he says, they got used to “naturally, because, in general, is what is already being lived with the teams in this very special situation, that’s why there weren’t too many different things. “
Without time to enjoy or rest after the success with the national team, Marchán has already trained this afternoon -as the first and only session- for tomorrow’s league event in León against a direct rival for the second-place championship of the Sacyr ASOBAL League as It is the Bidasoa Irún.
“Surely they will come with their homework done after we might surprise them from the start on the first lap on their track, so the most likely thing is that it will be a dog-face match, which is decided by details and in the final minutes” , he concluded.
Ninth program of “La Pachanga” in which Cristóbal Cabezas, José Manuel Fernández Almazán and Óscar Riofrío also talk with Aitor Gómez, CD Marchamalo coach; Gemma Arenas, Spanish Ultra Trail Champion in 2015, 2016 and 2019; José Andrés Merino, member of the National Committee of Referees of the Spanish Judo Federation and Nacho Hernando, Minister of Development of the Community Board.
