Real Madrid One of La Fbrica’s pearls hung her boots and is now dedicated to personal training
ANDs usual losing track of a great team squad. Often, even the one who went to star in lower categories, step away from the spotlights one day and get out of our line of sight. What is more typical is that, when you trace that name again, when you find it in a recess of memory and want to place it in the present, the space that you have left blank is written with a story like Ivn Sez’s. One day he said enough, with 20 years and with the Real Madrid shirt on. I lost the illusion, hung up my boots and sublimated the ‘new account’. “The first thing I did was delete all my football-related contacts from the agenda and put social media aside”, tells MARCA Ivn, now a personal trainer and manager of the Get It! Fitness Club, not so long ago a youth squad who aimed at everything and whose march from the Atlético quarry to Valdebebas caused an institutional shock that ended with the virtual signing of a non-aggression pact.
Ivn was a precocious footballer, always playing with ‘grown-ups’, always standing out. In 2011, when he was a cadet, he started in the final of the Youth Champions Cup against Barcelona, a category three years ahead of his age. I shared eleven with players like Pacheco, Jes, Omar Mascarell or Rubn Sobrino. Opposite, the Bara de Deulofeu and Rafinha, that he won that final. In promising youth squad reports, he was always at the top of the list. One of the great pearls of Real Madrid and the Spanish team, a magnet of praise who was flying over a cloud of plans and projects about the future of a teenager. “The easy thing would be to reply with the topic that I have always had my feet on the ground and it did not affect my situation, but I was not being sincere. Now totally disconnected from football I have realized that all those factors they make you believe at times what is not, Then there are people who know how to manage it better and others worse. I sincerely believe that I have always carried it well, who knows me from a young age knows that all those comments did not make me change as a person and believe me superior to the rest, and if they did, no one has thrown it at me, but I know it is true than at times they make you relax and that can affect your performance. “
The seasons passed and Ivn became strong in Juvenil A, sharing costumes with Ral de Toms, Marcos Llorente, Benavente, Mario Hermoso, Aleix Febas … Raised a Copa del Rey against Athletic de Iaki Williams and a Champions Cup with the Real Sociedad de Odriozola as a rival. But the step never came, the call from Castilla never came, that last impulse that left him at the gates of the first team, with which he got to train. And the 2014-15 season came, with Real Madrid C in Third, dragged by the descent of Castilla to Second B and executed by the club at the end of that campaign. “Just my last year of contract coincided with the disappearance of C, a year that on a personal and team level was bad, I had options at the beginning and in the middle of the season to leave that if they had closed I think that we would be talking from another situation, but those are just more sensations. “
The course ended, the team disappeared and many players remained in limbo. “Like the season that summer was very tough,” recalls Ivn. Sing the M.O.D.A. that “there is a fire inside that guides us from childhood”. That fire, the illusion of football, was consumed until it was extinguished without any of the offers that came being able to rekindle it. “You will not know how to give a specific reason why I decided to leave, it was a host of situations that made me not accept any offer, at that time the only thing that was clear to me was that I needed a change because I wasn’t excited and none of those offers motivated me and they returned the illusion of continuing to try. Everybody threw their hands on their heads and told me that if I was crazy and he was trying to convince me, but it didn’t last long, a couple of months later I didn’t hear from the majority of them anymore. “
Without illusion and without desire, Ivn left him. He hung up his boots, disappeared. Delete the phonebook And in that summer of 2015, the trail was also lost on social networks. “The change took him well, obviously there were bad times because good memories came to me, it’s a brutal change of life, but I knew how to adapt well to the situation, I knew I had to reset, “he says. Despite what might be expected from the situation, where anyone would feel vertigo, he was determined:” I needed to disconnect as much as possible and focus on my studies. I was clear on what I wanted to do, I had already thought about plan B, I packed my bags and returned to Madrid, the only thing that changed was that I no longer had to go to train. “
Many of his former partners They assumed his departure and did not reappear for his cell phone or for his life. But others, resigned to losing him in the locker room, did not want to erase him from day to day. “It is not that I have contact but that they are my friends. When I decided to leave football, I erased my agenda, that’s when I realized who my real friends were, Since then I have only spoken and have relationships with those who continued to support me and care for me. Some are not active, others continue to play at a semi-professional level and I also have them that are in the lite: Lozano, Rai, Sergio Cabanelas, Arroyo, Miki, Mario, Melero, Febas and Ander, They are the only ones I have contact with and we try to see each other, some have even come to Get it! to train them. “
To say that Real Madrid did not sign Kun Agero for Ivn Sez It is a half truth and I will hang an unfair poster on the back of the center, but effectively, there is half truth in it. Gil Marn had no qualms about stretching and using that pact designed for the lower categories to block any attempt to negotiate with Real Madrid. “Getting to the Atlantic was a very big effort for both my parents and myself, trips to Madrid, little leisure time, little rest time … we dedicated ourselves exclusively to soccer, we did not regret it, all those years gave their reward. The signing for Madrid? Now I see it as a prize for all the time and work invested, the opportunity presented itself and we took advantage of it, both my family and me seemed the most correct thing, “says Ivn, who returned to his Madrid origins after having started his career in a team at the Real Madrid Foundation.
Today Ivn Sez is only 25 years old, he is a personal trainer and entrepreneur and these days he is worried, like everyone. “It has been a complete slowdown, we are a company that we have just started, we had barely 20 months of activity when the alarm state was decreed. “His Get It! Fitness club it has had to adapt to the restrictions of the current situation. “We have expanded our services, offering personal or group training in streaming To current clients and new clients that are giving us positive results, we try to stay active through social networks and in this situation we have been much more, luckily we have an account that has enough visibility, we do live training, We upload 2-3 training routines a week … “.
His experience, in addition to appearing on his resume, helps him day by day: “I feel fortunate to have been able to start my own business with my own resources and to have been able to live all those experiences from a young age as a footballer, Real Madrid not only helped me train as a footballer, From a young age, they instill values that make you grow and grow as a person. What stands out the most is the competitive gene that I still have despite not continuing to compete, which I hope will never go away, it is helping me day by day “.
In his company he is now on the other side. After years of receiving orders from physical trainers, now he gives them: “During my training stage I met a colleague, Gorka Urquijo, who is now my partner. We shared the same way of seeing sport and the world of fitness, different from what was being offered at the time, we saw that there was an unfilled market niche and we decided to go for it. Get It! born with the purpose of helping people to acquire a series of habits and routines of a sports and nutritional nature that improve their health and quality of life and at the same time carry out a sports routine that allows them to achieve their short-term goals, to set more ambitious goals as each stage of sports planning is burned . At present we have a portfolio of 90-100 clients, who has managed to acquire a training routine of 2-3 days a week, and we carry out personal training sessions fully adapted and personalized to the physical capabilities of each client and focused on the objectives that we set. Apart from personal training, we carry out sessions for small groups of 3-5 people and we offer online sports routines service, for people who cannot come to our facilities, because we have clients in Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Australia, Switzerland, Portugal … who carry out their sports routine through our app “.
The illusion has rekindled sparks within him, but the question is inevitable. Will I do it again? What would change? It should not be easy to review and respond, imagine a different present. “I have always been myself, I have never been influenced by anyone and I have taken always the decisions that I believed were the right ones, That is why I have a clear conscience, obviously not all will have been successful and many things could be changed, but now it is very easy to say. What I know will change is my last stage, being where I was is a privilege available to very few and I did not enjoy it 100%, I compare the problems that I had at that time in my head with those that may arise right now in my day to day and I have to solve, and I laugh, for example the one we have now with the situation we are living with the pandemic. “
One of his teammates at the quarry, Agoney also savored the bitter side of football and was about to follow in Ivan’s footsteps: “I thought about leaving football. I have always been close to the sea, I like the sea and The first thing I thought was to enroll in a boat, go three or four months to the water and return “, declared the canary to MARCA a few months ago, which now seem like several lives. But to Agoney they convinced him among a few friends and that play-off reconciled him with the ball: “They told me to play for the team in my town to make him happy. I went to Saucillo for the Second Regional”. Instead, Ivn found support at home to pave a new road in his life: “The environment that today is still by my side I don’t think it was trying to convince me or that it was trying to force me to continue, I think what they wanted is to help me make the best decision possible, but they supported me and continue to do so. “
Closing the football door and opening a new one, not knowing what was behind, it shouldn’t have been easy, although Ivn was clear on plan B. “I attended higher technical studies of physical activities and sports, from the outset it was clear to me that I did not want to disassociate myself from sport.” At just 20 years old and with a lifetime devoted to training and football, the temptation to backtrack and resume the race never came up. “It never occurred to me to drop out of school and go back to football, I had regained the illusion and set a goal for myself, but I know it crossed my mind to combine both. ” Ivn never wrote two ellipsis next to the end point. The football chapter in his biography ends at age 20. But it was only a preface.
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