08/07/2021 10:38
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 08/07/2021 2:12 PM
After the historic achievement of the Argentine volleyball team in the Olympic Games, which beat Brazil and thus obtained a bronze medal in Tokyo 2020, Hugo Conte, former captain of that team, now a television commentator, took advantage of the attention generated by the triumph to
ask politics for more funds
for the sport and left a criticism about those that are only for the photo with the winners.
"There are many people who go up for the photo now, leaders, politics too, but it would be very good if from this point of view we put on long pants and we begin to realize that sport transmits a lot and
can really generate very good things for the boys,
"said Hugo Conte, father of Facundo, the star of the team that beat Brazil 3-2 after going 1-2, with partials of 25-23, 20-25, 20-25, 25- 17 and 15-13.
"Every four years people recover watching the Olympic Games and it is something very nice. They begin to realize that sport has to be important in the formation of children and it would be very good if this were part of national politics and that the government,
whoever the government is, investment in sports is not an expense
, it is an investment because it is also education and health, "Conte reflected.
Conte was asked if he thinks that the players of the national team or Las Leonas will go to a photo at the Casa Rosada after the titles, something that the players of the soccer team did not do after winning the Copa América.
"We don't even have federative support, so
imagine what we can think of politics,
" he replied in a dialogue with radio Miter.
THE HUG FROM THE SOUL!
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- Hugo Conte (@ hugoconte7) August 7, 2021
After the achievement of the bronze medal, which had not been achieved since the 1988 Seoul Olympics, Conte stressed that visibility should be taken advantage of.
"Let's hope that in some way all this helps. I know there are many people who get up for the photo now, leaders, politics too, but it would be very good if, from this point of view, we put on our long pants and start giving ourselves He realizes that sport transmits a lot and can really generate very good things for boys, "he said.
But the request for more support for the sport made by the former volleyball player put in the context of the current crisis: "We all know that there are many priorities in Argentina that go through poverty, hunger, trying to get kids off the streets , education, health. But
sport can help
, then surely a budget would have to be added to create important things with sport and not see it as an expense ".
And he concluded: "And it would be very good if it leans much more. It has to come from above, from the head, down the line so that it really supports it much more because it is very important. Because the boys see examples, mirrors where they want to see each other. Those mirrors are very important and they continue to be maintained with a lot of support. "
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