Not even they themselves imagined that this would turn out so well. The players of the “Osas” of Real Oviedo and the “Madreñes” of Gijón Rugby have done everything in their children’s rugby clubs, they have been delegates, organized third times, they have taken them, they have brought them and many times , when they started to watch the games, they barely understood a complex sport for those who have not played it. All that has changed. And a lot. Now they are the ones who have put on the boots, the ones who tread the mud, also the ones who get injured sometimes, the ones who compete and, in the case of the “Bears”, the ones who even have their own sponsor (Herbalife).
Noelia passes the ball to Juncal Salván, in El Naranco, in a “Osas” training session. | / Fernando Rodríguez
Every week, for about a year, two teams have trained in both El Naranco and the La Laboral field, initially formed by mothers of players from their respective clubs, Real Oviedo and Gijón Rugby, who have been close people have been joining. The only rule is that they are over 35 years old, which is the minimum to be able to compete in the mothers’ league. Apart from the tournaments organized by the clubs, such as the one that will take place in El Naranco on April 27, with teams from Gijón, León, the Basque Country and Valladolid, there are the “Mater Series”, three concentrations in which a lot of people participate. of teams of mothers from all over Spain. One of them already took place in Gijón, organized by the “Madreñes”; another was held in Barcelona, which neither of the two Asturian teams could attend; and another is missing in Seville, where the two teams from the region plan to be.
Noema passes the ball to Ana, nicknamed “Botella”, in a “Bears” training session. / Fernando Rodríguez
In El Naranco, in Oviedo, even the injured come to training. Irma Fernández, who does not dress short because she is somewhat affected by allergies, observes her classmates. She was in the senior class and before leaving it she decided to join the “Osas”: “It’s incredible how much they have grown, how the people evolve, how they get along, the camaraderie there is; I left the senior class for the job and for “I signed up not to give it up completely,” she explains while following the work of her colleagues.
Juncal Salván is one of those who “had never watched a game in my life”, from Oviedo, her 13-year-old son plays for Real Oviedo: “They freak out with us, at first he told me ‘mom, why you run back'” but after we beat Valladolid they looked at us differently.” Salván warns: “At first we didn’t think about it, but now we really take it seriously.” Ana González, “Kolo”, is the one. team captain: “A mother and I founded it, I have a kid who plays and he doesn’t give me much pleasure, I played and I stopped the year after the pandemic.”
The mothers’ teams play with and without tackling, in the case of the two Asturians they do it without, just holding on, although Kolo acknowledges that “we get hot.” But more than in the tackles, the danger is on the Naranco field, as Susana Álvarez knows well: “In January I broke my tibia and fibula in two places, the field was waterlogged, in a hole it became windy and broke, “I always come to training and I can’t wait to come back.”
This passion is shared by the “Madreñes” of Gijón, who even have a grandmother in their ranks. This is Azucena Díaz, 54 years old and with a granddaughter, Naira, who is seven months old and to whom a friend told her about the team and she didn’t think about it: “I thought they were going to be more aggressive, but they are lovely people and I “It happened very well.” She does not miss a training session and is surprised by what she is discovering: “It is a sport that I never followed, I like sport, I run and I trained handball, but I had not seen rugby and it is very familiar and very handsome, I am one of the I get covered in mud,” he jokes. The one who doesn’t understand her is her daughter: “she told me ‘Mom, you’re like a goat, you sign up for everything.'”
Andrea Nosti is one of those who has been there since the beginning: “We were a group of mothers who were there to see our children, to organize things, and it was Estefanía Cela, who is a coach, who proposed it and since then we have not stopped growing “. Another of the “Madreñes”, Izaskun Arronte, can confirm this: “I, who have been coming to the field for many years, watched the games like a cow watches a train go by, now I understand them much better, you are more entertained. Her son said to a colleague , ‘Mom, what a shame,’ and when the tournament we organized ended, what he told her was ‘Mom, we were amazed.'”
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2024-04-14 02:00:40
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