Artistic gymnastics, his first steps as an instructor
Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas.- Direct class Physical Education Teacher, first in private schools, later standing out in José Vasconcelos and Ford 74 elementary schools in group and individual sports, beginning almost nine years ago with an ambitious Table Tennis project where He has won 8 qualifiers in Region V, 8 state and representing Tamaulipas 6 times in the National School Sports Games for Basic Education.
“Of the 8 state wins we did not go to two nationals because they were suspended due to Covid, we only went to six where we played a decent role when Table Tennis was just beginning in school sports”,
Says Marco Antonio Molina Zúñiga, with 25 years of service and almost 52 years of age, who has detected and forged talent in other sports such as soccer, handball, basketball, volleyball, athletics, badminton, tae kwon do and chess in school sports.
But he has also forged athletes in artistic gymnastics as an instructor at the Gymnasium of the Siglo XXI Sports Unit.
He has been the Administrative Manager of the Correcaminos Soccer teams in the Third and Second Division in the good times of engineer Efraín Rangel Torres, head of Sports at the Autonomous University of Tamaulipas.
He has also worked in private schools as a Physical Education teacher and swimming instructor.
Is it true that when you started with Table Tennis you trained at the dining room table at home?
“Of course it is true, I started this project training my daughter Nadia Cristina Molina Medina at the dining room table in my house, she participated in the Nayarit national championship because she did not have a regulation table. She removed everything from the table and with two chairs on either side she divided it with a cord; At school she did the same, but with a desk until the school bought a table to work with the boys.
He confesses that he attended six nationals as a coach, gaining a lot in learning from his students in Chihuahua, Chihuahua, Bahía de Banderas, Nayarit on two occasions, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mazatlán, Sinaloa and Acapulco, Guerrero in 2019.
But one bad day, the life of Marquinho Molina took a complete turn: while on April 29, 2021, at a meeting of the Technical Council at the Ford 74 elementary school, he suffered an ischemic vascular stroke that to date has kept him from all activity.
”It is very difficult to assimilate such a strong blow, but from the hand of God, with the invaluable support of my wife María Guadalupe Medina Nava, my children Marco Antonio, Lesly Guadalupe and Nadia Cristina, and my doctors, I am really looking forward to get ahead”, adds Marco Molina.
Marco was born on April 28, 1971 in Guadalupe, Nuevo León, but he is from Tamaulipas by adoption, much of his childhood, adolescence and youth he lived in the city of Mante.
He completed basic education and high school in Mante city, then in Victoria city he studied Sports Organization at the Autonomous University of Tamaulipas and at the same time began working at the Siglo XXI Park Gymnasium as an artistic gymnastics instructor.
In 1998 he entered the system of the Ministry of Public Education as a Physical Education teacher in front of a group, starting at the Plan de Ayala Elementary School in Barretal, the following year he achieved his change to Cd. Victoria working in some of the best schools.
He has also been champion in women’s soccer in the Bimbo Tournament and in the SNTE League on two occasions in both branches, as well as in a men’s basketball state, he also won the 2005 category in soccer and handball in School Games.
He has worked in Héroe de Nacozari de Guemez, Lauro Rendón, Rafael Balandrano, Herminio Guzmán Castillo morning, José Vasconcelos morning and evening primary schools, Republic of Chile and is currently assigned to Ford 74 where, God first, he hopes to return very soon as the Phoenix.
Finally, he confesses that he hopes to recover soon to come back stronger to do what he likes the most, which is to be a direct Physical Education class teacher and continue detecting talent in all sports disciplines.
“Thank you very much for the time you dedicate to me, for me it is a recognition of my work as a teacher of which I am very proud, I have always liked to participate to win and the results are tangible there”.
