04/24/2021 3:39 PM
Clarín.com
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Updated 04/24/2021 3:39 PM
The lawyer and political leader Aníbal Fernández was
unanimously
elected
as president of the Argentine Hockey Confederation (CAH).
Thus, he will assume his second term, after the first ended with his resignation before the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.
The Ordinary Assembly that elected Fernández was carried out by the zoom application, due to the context of the coronavirus pandemic, under the presidency of Miguel Grasso and with the participation of 34 of the 35 active affiliated entities.
"They called me leaders and with great pleasure I treasure the call of several players, inviting me and the idea satisfied me.
I think there is much to do and we are going to collaborate to do it,
" said the controller of the Río Turbio Carboniferous Sites (YCRT), who He will occupy the top position in the Confederation again, after being elected in 2013 and resigning in 2016.
On that occasion,
Chapa
Retegui, current Head Coach of those selected and DT of Las Leonas, had convinced him to stand in the elections.
"It was not easy at all, I was encouraged, I applied, I competed and I won. It was on April 27, 2013," he recalled.
"I had a lot of things in my head, as now, and for this reason, on June 2, I traveled to Barcelona to speak with the president of the FIH. He received me with great warmth, I told him about my ambitions, among them that the selected of gentlemen out of the top 5 in the world. You already know history: gold medal in the Olympic Games and first in the ranking, "he remarked on the CAH website.
Regarding that resignation, the Chief of Staff of the governments of Néstor Kirchner and Cristina Fernández explained: "That I am a professional politician, it is nothing new. Of course it is not mixed with hockey. There was a four-year period in our country where They persecuted us, incomprehensibly and viciously. I
understood that for doing harm to my person, they would harm hockey
. "
"I traveled to London to meet with the president of the FIH to whom I communicated my idea of resigning. He accompanied me in the decision and congratulated me because I promised him that I would do many things and I would end up fulfilling them in 100 percent of the cases. we set out to achieve it, "he added.
Five years later, the top leader believes that he will find "a very good hockey, of a very good level."
"We Argentines are different, they respect us in the world and we want to use that to continue being respected. We must bet to occupy the strategic place we have in the world," he said.
Among the ideas of Aníbal Fernández for his second term, the one to
change the statute stands out
.
"It is old, unclear, it must be aggionarte. For this and thanks to these tools such as the zoom that the pandemic leaves us, it will be a horizontal decision and national approval," he explained.
"You have to do a good job with the attention to the affiliate. You have to work with very positive schemes for the development of championships, with a powerful training scheme, with the players from within. You have to propose to work with projects. Bet on the players. projects with time, to give the technicians the opportunity to outline their idea. It is also necessary to know how to finance all the work that is carried out, "he listed his challenges.
Likewise, Fernández
confirmed that the technical bodies of those selected will continue in their positions
.
"There are three months left for the Olympic Games and little more time for the next World Cups. Afterwards, an analysis of the work will be done," he said.
For his part, the outgoing president of the CAH, Miguel Grasso, confided that a year ago he had "the first talk with Aníbal" and since then he believed "that he was the right person to follow" what they had started.
"I am totally convinced that he is up to the task to lead the Confederation, also counting on the experience of his previous management that helped him to learn as we have all learned," he commented.
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