The presentation took place at Combat Sports Training Center which is located on José Batlle y Ordóñez and Avenida Italia.
There they train and are gathered all federated combat sportssuch as judo, karate, taekwondo, boxing, jujitsu, muaythai, wrestling and mixed martial arts.
The stage where different sports and political authorities spoke was placed behind the a mural painted by the illustrator Alfonso Rosso.
It shows, from left to right, the main figures of Uruguayan sport in these disciplines: Maximiliano Larrosa from karate, Federico González from taekwondo, Nicol Píriz from muaythai, Gastón “Tonga” Reyno who recently moved on from mixed martial arts. to bare knuckle (boxing without gloves), Jimana Osorio from MMA (mixed martial arts), Mikael Aprahamian from judo and Camila Piñeiro from boxing.
The inauguration of the mural, despite honoring different male and female athletes from the sports that are practiced in that place, It was not without controversy.
The former national secretary of Sports, Fernando Cáceres, retweeted an anonymous user on his construction with cultural and historical accumulation from a frivolous perspective, without history or collective content.”
This is because in the place where the mural was painted there was a wall painted in light blue with the phrase “The path is the reward”, of Oscar Washington Tabárezpronounced at the reception given to the soccer team who achieved fourth place in the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.
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They go from an iconic message, with which all Uruguayans feel identified, to a super champions-type comic…
Go from construction with cultural and historical accumulation to a frivolous look, without history or collective content.
🤦♂️@uydeporte pic.twitter.com/uMgXoA93mf
— Uruguayan Athletes Who Play It. (@SportJuega) March 21, 2024
The only athlete who spoke about it on his social networks was Federico González who on his Instagram account wrote: “On one of the walls of the Training Center they made a painting with some combat sports athletes and I am one of them. along with other great athletes” accompanying the words with a flag of Uruguay and an arm making muscle.
2024-03-21 22:09:36
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