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“I didn’t come to Girona just to study physiotherapy, I also want to be an elite player”

With great euphoria! It was a very important victory. Because we needed it, we came from the defeats of Zaragoza i Belgiumand of a lackluster triumph a canariesand we really needed a triumph like this, at home, in front of the fans, and moreover, against the champion ofEuropa. It serves us to dispel doubts. The key was to be ourselves again, because the games we lost we lost because of that, for not being us. The key, first, is defense. When we are intense and aggressive in defense everything is a little easier in attack. We had missed that and when we got it back, we won again.

It arrived in Girona in 2019, is it perfectly adapted?

Yes, it’s my fourth season here, I arrived in 2019. I’m very good there. I like the life I lead with basketball and studies. I used to live with French friends from university, now I live alone. I combine basketball with the physiotherapy studies I do in Salt.

He will never regret sending that email, asking if he could play while he was coming to study in Girona.

I knew I wanted to come play a Spain because I really like the game here and the basketball culture there, and with the physiotherapy studies I wanted to do, in Girona had everything I was able to pull it all off. That email gave me the option to now be a professional player. I was sure of my abilities. I also sent videos of me playing a Toulouse. He answered me carles suriswho was the coordinator of the GEiEG Uniwe specified my arrival, some training, and my signing by the team of Women’s League 2.

And the physiotherapy studies, have you finished them?

I am now in my final year. Since I am a high-level athlete, I will be able to do it in a year and a half, in order to finish my studies and internships. I’m also happy because I was able to combine the two things.

Was it clear that he also wanted to give priority to studies?

In Toulouse, before coming to Girona, I was in a training center, something similar to the 21st century, with training in the morning and class in the afternoon. Everything was to combine sport and studies. It has always been important for me to have a double project, to continue with my studies in case something happens in basketball. Because basketball is also very important to me. I didn’t come to Girona just to study physiotherapy, I also want to be an elite player. I’ve always had this in mind, never to stop studying but also never to stop playing basketball.

When in the summer you were offered to be in the first team, were you afraid of not playing or were you sure of yourself?

He offered it to me Pere Puig. I was very happy. When you get an offer like that, it’s a dream come true. He had already trained for two years with the first team, and had already made his debut there, but it was the option to be a professional.

How did you imagine it? Are you doing better than expected?

I had imagined so many things! I knew it would be difficult because I come from League 2 and the jump to the Endesa League it’s very big. Right from the start I just had to work, work and work, and give everything in every training session to try to gain the trust of my teammates and the coach. Step by step. Versus Sopron I played 18 minutes, and theEuroleaguesomething that I would not have imagined last year.

Who encourages him in bad times?

My family has always been by my side. There is a basketball tradition at home, my mother had been a player and so had my aunts. They know about it and I can talk about it. My mother couldn’t watch the match against Sopron because she was working. And at midnight, when he was leaving Fontajau, we called each other and I said “mom, you can’t miss the game, I played 18 minutes”. She was so happy that she told me she wouldn’t go to sleep without seeing him.

Does she feel like a professional player yet?

It’s a good question. It’s my first year with a professional contract… and I’m feeling it, I can’t say no, but I also think I still have a lot to prove and I need to work to be even more professional.

How would you define yourself as a player?

Electric is a word I like. That’s how they defined me when I arrived in Girona and I think it fits me. The Laia Palau, as is obvious, is one of my references. too Sue Bird o Celine Dumercbut having shared a team with her, I choose Laia.

Do you remember his debuts in League and Euroleague?

Of course! with Alfred Julbe as a coach, last season I made my debut in the Euroleague playing two minutes on the court of the Fenerbahce. In Spain I made my debut in the Super Cupand then in the first league game last year against Valencia. I made 5 points.

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