Sara Vidal, the heavenly path from minibasket to Liga Challenge

Sarah Vidal (Nigrán, 2002) is one of the youngest on campus Celtic from women’s basketballone of the captains and only the youth team and the Galician team. Before he came here, more than a decade at Celta during which he had to live through problems as a serious knee injury, but he never threw in the towel in his fight to fulfill the dream he lives on. All, combining it with my studies, now Lawgrade of the one who is in the third year.

The first contact of the player of Priegue with basketball he was in school. She tried other sports, but the ones with the ball threw her away, and the one with the basket immediately hooked her. “The coach saw me with a lot of enthusiasm, hardworking and that I was good at it, and asked me if I wanted to try For Eirexa», he says about the Nigranese club where he spent three years before moving to the light blues.

He assures that the illusion of those beginnings has remained “intact” to this day despite the fact that the path was not rosy. “The change was difficult at first. From being with your school friends all your life to a situation where you don’t know anyone,” he presents. In addition, the sports level was higher, he remembers the “stick” that the coach gave him on the first day and admits that adjustment It was something complicated, something that falls within the scope of the norm. “Here I am and I’m super proud.”

The hardest moment for him was when he suffered rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament. I didn’t want to go through the operating room. “I wanted to continue despite all the traumatologists telling me that I had to operate. The last one, Dr. Cota, convinced me,” he reveals, talking about the head of the medical service of football club Celta. He told him that if he didn’t have an operation, he wouldn’t be able to continue playing. “Well, I changed my mind. I love with my lifewith the illusion I have?”, remember he asked himself.

they came mhard omentum watching your teammates train, staying on the sidelines and working on your recovery. But he succeeded. “That’s where I learned to follow forward despite the bad days. In order to have the opportunity to reach your goal, you must always keep working, both in your studies and in life,” he thinks.

She, who has always been a good student, “little by little” gets her diploma by fulfilling her sports obligations. “As the years go by, combining sports and studies becomes more and more complicated, Primary or ESO is not the same as university. I’m in my third year, he’s four years old, and because of sports problems I can’t go to class, and I’m sure I will in a year or two,” he analyzed. He is not worried: “I am very safe myself and I know I’ll pull it off.” Teaching and training coincide so that, since it cannot be “separated,” it goes at its own pace “with Effort and renunciation».

He comes from a club where great importance is attached academic training from the player. “We have to be realistic and we know that, unfortunately, we will not be able to make a living from basketball. So, you have to train, either with a career, a cycle…», he comments. And they give them in the club objects take exams.

For the youth team that he had as a reference Laura AlonsoBeing the only player at home is a source of pride. “In a word, I am happy. I was growing until joining the first team. It wasn’t easy and I’m very proud.” He’s only 21 and has a long way to go. “All the girls who go to watch the games on a Saturday afternoon dream of being in the first team. I always thought I could achieve it, but never that it would be so fast – he admits.

He remembers his match perfectly debutwith 16 years turn to the 21st century. “How can we forget that!” he exclaims. When he’s in another room Cristina Cantero He told him to get ready, he thought he was still confused, “I was shocked.” When the training phase ended and when they told her that they had her for the first team, she couldn’t believe it either.

The one who is still her coach in the first team, Cristina Cantero, is very special to Sara. “He has known me since I was little and has followed me all these years. I appreciate and admire her very much. He gave me my debut and to this day he still wants me in the team. As a coach, I also went to national team tournaments with her. I love him very much – he says.