The biography of Sylvia is navarro

She was a step away from the departure after the group stage, and even lost in the first match due to the heavy injury of the knee of her guardian angel Sylvia Navarro, which many hastened to retire. But in the end, the team of Jose Ignacio Pradees continued the struggle for the medal, and the Veteran goalkeeper announced the return after a month of rehabilitation. This is especially true for command species.

We are rooted in the thought that the center in basketball should be the most dimensional, Hoker in the rugby with hardy, libero in volleyball, the central striker in the water polo athletic, the defender in hockey is decisive, and the goalkeeper is everywhere where there is a high gate. But at the same time, we know very well that in all the rules there are exceptions. Therefore, from time to time, players atypical for their roles appear, such as, for example, Mexican football player Horhe Kampos.

He even has growth almost the same as our heroine - see with Navarro the amazing speed of reaction and jumping. They achieved success not thanks to, but contrary to. Behind her shoulders of matches in the form of a national team, the 4th indicator in history and dozens of feats, as a result of which it was possible to "pull out" games alone. None of this could have been, if not for a happy combination of circumstances.

She herself claims that the sport was laid in her DNA, so she could not be realized not only in handball. Dad and grandfather were passionate fans of football. They even practiced it at the semi -professional level. Navarro recalls that in childhood she almost did not play with dolls, but pulled her heads to kick around the room. Going out into the street, the girl first was looking for an empty tin can and drove her into a homemade gate.

The boys were happy to accept the impudent attacker in their ranks during football courtyard battles. This could not continue forever: to direct energy in the right direction, my mother wrote down an 8-year-old daughter in a sports school, where the future doctor of psychology, professor of sports sciences at the University of Valencia Christina Mayo worked. It is she who is considered the founder of female professional handball in Spain.

The choice of role, according to Sylvia, was not too complicated by a dilemma. In the first training she was asked: where does she want to play - in the field or at the gate? Despite the fact that on the football field, Yurkaya Navarro felt like a fish in the water in an attack, on a handball platform she preferred to take a place in the frame: “As a field player, I felt clumsily, and taking a place under the crossbar between the rods felt in the“ house ”.

The goalkeeper is always alone, but his work is very useful. He is not only the last defender of the gate, but also the initiator I needed nothing else. In her activity, the mentor used a scientific approach, and therefore made a personal plan for the preparation from hundreds of exercises aimed at strengthening the muscles of the legs and jumping for the novice goalkeeper.

Including - with burden. Often I considered the number of repetitions personally, and having reached 20, stopped and said to start again, because I do everything wrong. It was terribly infuriated, but after many years I realized that I would not have achieved anything without such an approach, ”recalled Sylvia. After a year and a half, Navarro suddenly heard Mao's disappointing verdict: "You are too small for the goalkeeper and, most likely, you will not grow up quite high." It is unlikely that it makes sense to talk about childhood psychological injuries, but after such a girl did not break.

Yes, she admitted to her mother, who still affectionately calls her Pelotita a ball, who wants to part with the manual ball. And in response I heard: you can’t give up and throw what you like! For the sake of continuing the handball story, the mother expressed her readiness to carry her daughter every day for training to another school, which was based in neighboring La-Elyana. And the word restrained her, for which Sylvia did not get tired of thanking her to this day: "She dedicated all of herself to me, becoming my hands, eyes, head and hunter for opportunities.

Without her, I would have remained anyone else." Ironically, our heroine began a professional career under the leadership ... Mayo. At the age of 16, Sylvia, whose height did not exceed cm, heard from Christina the same “verdict” as before, only in other words: “Your anthropometric data is not suitable for the goalkeeping position in modern handball. Train more diligent, more persistent, patient and wait for your chance.

Perhaps someday you will be lucky. "Every day, Navarro improved the skill side by side with Sagrario Santana and Russian Svetlana Bogdanova with her, she maintains a connection now. Svetlana Bogdanova:" And when winter comes, bake pies, I look at Biathlon and I am sick for the Fourcade "" They were those who have been corrected for a minute, an hour and an hour. Corps.

And Mayo gave the opportunity to remain part of the great team. No one doubted me! Everyone simply tried to somehow solve the problem of my little stature, ”Valenciae shared her memories.Sylvia waited for her chance in the year, getting the first titles. In the decisive series with the Danish Virro, Navarro did not play, but in both matches she was part of the application.

Bogdanova performed miracles at the gate, and Natalya Morskova "lit" in the attack, distinguished by a total of 25 times! Despite the status of the spare, the name Navarro was included in all champion lists. By the way, in addition to her, only 14 Spanish handballs became triumph of the Champions League. After 3 months, the goalkeeper from the country of Liliputov so jokingly calls himself Sylvia already put a hand in the historical success of Spain at the Maiden Championship of Europe among the handball players up to 17 years in Austria.

For the entire tournament, the Pyrenee team suffered one defeat in seven matches from the Russians with Inna Soslina, Maria Sidorova and Irina Poltoratskaya, destroying Norwegian in the final -! This success today remains the only one for female handball of Spain at the level of prefabricated. It could not even take my mind that they might notice me at such a level.

Everything was like a fairy tale. At the same time, I gained a supermotivation, ”said Navarro. She does not hold any grievances against Mayo, believing that she in a peculiar way used pedagogical methods, but when the offer from Gregorio Garcia arrived about the transition to Ferrobus Mislav, I did not have to think for a long time:“ I then decided to give handball the last chance.

And I was really lucky. My career went uphill. "In addition, her teacher Bogdanov moved to the new club. With the signing of the contract at the unusual goalkeeper, which looked like a match in the vast space of the gate, finally a full-fledged coaching trust appeared. Garcia was captivated in Sylvia determination, non-standard equipment with a distant exit to the 6-meter line, jumping, intuition, plastic and the first pass on the attack.

He did not "pickle" Navarro on the bench, let him play, including in the European arena. And in the first season the EGF Cup was won! Then three cups and one Super Bowl of Spain followed. I learned to cope with pressure when full halls gathered for matches. The Valencian derby became the decoration of the entire season, ”Sylvia nostalgia. In the year, the heroine of the story returned under the wing of Mayo, believing that it was time to give debts in an adult way.

Her team once again survived the merger and change the name, becoming Astrok Sagunto. As the main player, Navarro took the championship on the way Spain, and a few more trophies, only the financial problems of the Club, in connection with the departure of the General Sponsor, forced Sylvia to look for happiness on the side. Although the handball player herself did not really believe in the future to gain a foothold there, therefore, going to Estell, she asked her mother not to clean the room.

Say - I will return quickly and I will do everything myself. And in the end, she lingered to Itchako for 6 years. The Navarro name began to sound louder, and the fans began to compete in the originality of nicknames. The spider looked the most spectacular: it was fixed after her. She happened to weave a web not only at the gates of the club from Navarra, but also in the national team, where she returned after a long break on an ongoing basis thanks to the already familiar Dueneagas.

The disappointing result, taking into account the second place in the previous continental forum and the semi -finals at the World Cup, the bitter pill was sweetened by a rather high percentage of reliability of Navarro - the place in the symbolic team was then "stolen". By the way, it was in Brazil to the Pyrenee team that the pseudonym Las Guerreras was glued to the warrior. The explanation is as simple as possible: they compensated for the lack of technical equipment by character and perseverance.

After another 8 months, the Spaniards climbed to an unattainable height - they won Olympic bronze. It was a dream that has come true! Surprisingly, the highest success coincided with the most serious crisis in which the whole Spanish handball was. Due to the lack of funds, the teams did not pay salaries to the players at best, and at the worst they disappeared, like shadows at noon.

Because of this, Sylvia was forced to conclude an agreement with the Romanian "pile". This was one of the most difficult solutions in the whole career, but I do not regret it. The time spent far from the house, tempered me, gave me valuable life and sports experience. The cash desks of stadiums in Romania always had lines, we were recognized everywhere, and at the passport control before the presentation of documents I certainly heard: Sylvia Navarro, goalkeeper.

Gandbolists there are real stars. But the year spent in Romania was enough for me. I had no doubt that I would definitely return, ”Navarro admitted. Foreign clubs continued to show interest in her and offer seductive bonuses, but Sylvia no longer wanted to leave anywhere. Even though the average salary in the Spanish League is the whole euro. A thousand in the same currency is considered a good salary.

And the highest rate does not exceed the euro and is intended for players.