Special Envoy to Tokyo
Updated:08/08/2021 01:14h
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On July 27, Viran Morros dived for a split ball during the Spain-Brazil, he felt very acute discomfort and had to withdraw from the game. They did an MRI and Juan José Muñoz Benito, doctor of the Spanish handball team, determined that the Catalan player suffered “an injury in the middle third of the biceps femoris of the right leg.” Viran missed the rest of the Olympic tournament and Spain was left without its defensive specialist.
According to the regulations, the coach, Jordi Ribera, he could name a substitute as long as his name was within a list of 28 players that is submitted to the organization before the start of the Games. One day after learning about Viran Morros’ injury, Ribera dialed the phone number of Miguel Sánchez-Migallón (Ciudad Real, 1995). “He caught me buying sheets in Poland,” he smiles. Sánchez-Migallón, a player for the last seven seasons of the City of Logroño, had signed for Polish Kielce and was organizing his move. He had to leave everything, go through health controls at full speed and catch a plane to Tokyo.
It landed on July 31. On August 1 he was already on the court, dressed in shorts and playing the last game of the group stage against Argentina. “I got to Tokyo so tired that I slept a lot that night, so I didn’t have so many problems with jet lag. Yes, I had a lot worse the following days and I even notice something still, but, as soon as the referee whistles, the adrenaline goes up and nothing affects you anymore, ”he explains. Miguel Sánchez-Migallón, a very versatile player, capable of performing with solvency in all parts of the court, took on the challenge of becoming the team’s defensive specialist, a task that he had already worked with Jordi Ribera in the concentrations prior to the Olympic Games.
The Castilian-La Mancha player did not fill in. Although he has only played the last four games with the Hispanics, he has scored seven goals and, above all, has had to sweat the medal by fighting for many minutes with rival attacks. “The team has helped me a lot,” he values; I have felt like one more and they have made everything very easy for me to do what I had to do: play, defend and give everything ». Looking back on these last and dizzying ten days, Sánchez-Migallón confesses that he still doesn’t believe what happened to him: «You never want to come because of the injury of a colleague, but it has touched me, I have come and I have done what I could », ditch with a touch of modesty.
Now he is seen with an Olympic bronze medal around his neck; something that many athletes search unsuccessfully all their lives and that Miguel himself could not even dream of ten days ago, when a phone call caught him buying sheets in Poland.
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