Marco Alonso Verde Alvarez (11-02-2002) inherited the passion from his father, Manuel ‘Sammy’ Verde’, who competed in the 1992 Barcelona Games.
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Marco Verde earned his ticket to the Paris Games at the Santiago 2023 Pan American Games, after beating rivals from Cuba, the United States and Panama, securing a ticket with the gold medal in the 71 kilogram category.
Age: 22 years.
Place of birth: Mazatlan Sinaloa.
“Sometimes you don’t believe it. Right now when the national anthem was playing I felt like crying. There’s a lot of work behind it,” Marco Verde told CONADE after winning the Pan American gold.
Green Frame He acknowledges that Mexico is the birthplace of boxers. Our country has 13 medals in the Summer Games.
“We are tough and we have heart,” he said, adding that as a child he played baseball for six years and competed in national tournaments, including a youth Pan-American tournament.
His father gradually introduced him to boxing. The boxer from Mazatlán switched to this sport at the age of 10 and had to decide which one he would lean towards, being boxing the one he chose, which he has been doing for 10 years.
The first boxers who caught his attention were Muhammad Ali and Mike Tyson.
For Green Frame It would be a lack of commitment to “not put effort, put all your attitude into training, not put effort, not put all your heart into the fights.”
A thought that also comes to the Mexican boxer’s mind when he finishes a round is his family and that makes him give everything in the ring.
MARCO VERDE DREAMS OF AN OLYMPIC MEDAL IN PARIS
“I dream of being in Paris with my Olympic medal. Ten years have proven it, I work hard,” said Marco Verde in an interview with COM.
The most recent medals that Mexico has in boxing are those won by Christian Bejarano (bronze medal in Sydney 200) and Misael Rodríguez (bronze medal in Rio 2016).
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