“We have some pressure, which we put on ourselves individually, eh, but once we’ve won it Generalitat Cup it is inevitable to tell us that we want to repeat. We want to live up to it and we are aware that it will be complicated, but we can do it, yes. We will have to ‘hang on’, there will be nerves and we will have to put excitement and attitude into it. Now, we have to take it for what it is: a prize after everything we’ve done”, he confesses Elia Bladethe goalkeeper of the Girona of roller hockey, which this weekend will compete, thanks to having won the Generalitat Cup, the Princess Cup a Mieres. This afternoon he faces in the semi-finals the raxo (5:30 p.m.), and the other semi-final is played on Lena’s Pola i l’Alcala (7:30 p.m.). The final is contested on Sunday at noon (1:30 p.m.).
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The main novelty of the team ofAlbert Bou will be the presence of Mireia Arranz, who missed the last tournament due to injury. “I’m really looking forward to it, a lot. Girona’s is the best dressing room I’ve ever been in. We feel good with each other, and we understand each other wonderfully, on and off the court. We trust ourselves a lot. It is clear that we want to return with the Cup, but we do not approach it that way. First, let’s enjoy, laugh and have fun. Because if we do all this, the trophy will return with us”, he continues.
Precisely, Arranz has not had a good time, without playing. The previous edition of the Generalitat Cup had also been lost. “I have felt a lot of anger and helplessness. I have to admit that I haven’t been so fucked up this year, though. Because last year we lost in the semis and you always think you could have helped to avoid that. Being champions I was happy, for my teammates and because I also feel it. Because the Cup was not won only that day, it is won all year. In training, on trips, with a thousand little things. I urged them to take advantage of it for me, because I couldn’t. And that they dedicated many goals to me, of course”, he exclaims. Of course, Yvet Jiménez he didn’t forget about her when he scored the winning goal. “It was a beautiful feeling.”
Another title to enhance the beautiful history of Girona in roller hockey
The road to the first title
But not everything was so easy. In the semifinals, Girona eliminated the Palau in the penalty shootout (2-3) and in the decisive duel, the Beams and Rails (1-0), where Bladé stopped two penalties, during that final; the last, in the last action of the game. “Before kicking him, la Gemma, one of the players, came to hug me and said ‘aunt, I know you’ll stop it’. Honestly, I pretended to be sure of myself; because I didn’t have them all. And I deflected it, yes”, recalls the goalkeeper, who still clearly remembers “the adrenaline I felt. When the horn sounded, which was already official that it was over, a cry came from my soul».
“It was like a dream”, expresses Arranz, “because we had so internalized that those fifty minutes of the final were a gift, that when we were whistled for the penalty we were left blank. In fact, I had come down from the bleachers next to the track to be closer to them and I didn’t even look. For three days we were in a cloud.” “But how cool it would be to win again”, concludes Bladé.
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