After successful her debut at Paris 2024, Spaniard Liliana Fernández mentioned on Sunday that she didn’t wish to retire with out seeing her seashore volleyball accomplice, Paula Soria, “expertise the Olympic Video games.”
“I am very blissful for Paula and for me. It is a reward for the sacrifice of those previous few years. I did not wish to retire with out Paula experiencing this, and at present we fulfilled that dream collectively,” mentioned the 37-year-old athlete, who’s enjoying in her fourth Video games.
Liliana, who’s a mom of two kids and has not too long ago overcome private {and professional} challenges, mentioned that her accomplice “has assimilated in a 12 months and a half what it took her six or seven years.”
After the match, Paula Soria mentioned that for her “it had been an excellent match regardless of the second set” and that they “went out onto the courtroom with quite a lot of confidence” and that she did not even have time to grasp that “she was enjoying subsequent to the Eiffel Tower”.
“They had been a really robust staff, they’d crushed us twice earlier than this 12 months. In the present day, we loved ourselves and performed our recreation, and we acquired the win, so we’re tremendous blissful,” added Soria.
The Alicante native pressured “the significance of staying calm”: “Between the second and third set, we talked about calming down and enjoying our recreation and that was key to turning the match round.”
The following problem for the Spanish staff might be to face Brazil, one of many strongest groups within the event.
“We proceed to dream, we’ll give attention to our recreation as we wish to keep away from the play-offs and advance on to the spherical of 16,” he concluded.
