The coaches of the women’s rugby and hockey teams, respectively, gave a lecture to hundreds of students from Andrés Bello University. There, they delivered their vision of high competition. There were moving moments, like the minute’s silence for the sensitive death of Claudia Schüler.
In the José María Aznar Auditorium of the Andrés Bello University, three characters stand out. They are icons in their sport and winners on the world’s most complex stages. Together they add multiple world championship appearances and four Olympic medals. They are Fernando González, Sergio “Cachito” Vigil and Pablo Lemoine. The first is there as a moderator, the other two as guests of the conversation”Pathways to Success: Chile’s World Hockey and Rugby Teams » organized by the Institute of Sport and Welfare UNAB.
The trident debated for nearly an hour on topics as important as high performance expectations, the meaning of achievement and the keys to massification for less exposed sports. Everything, in front of hundreds of students who filled the building located in the traditional Casona de Las Condes.
Lemoine and Vigil are the right people to talk about it. Firstly, because they are the leaders of two teams that have touched the elite of world sport in 2022 and secondly, because it is not the first time that they have done so. Both came from abroad with historical processes in their country and after years of work they managed to reproduce the method in Chile. But they always stress that winning is not the most important thing. That there are other factors and objectives in the discussion.
“I had moments of success, qualifications, victories, but I go through them very quickly, because I don’t want to stop there. I immediately go in search of another, much more personal challenge. My success is much more the search for another objective, than finally what I have achieved. The projects I lead are not so much the result, which is a stage, but rather the legacy left by the project. If today, with the Cóndores, Chilean rugby does not grow, it will be a big failure. Because at the end of the day going to a World Cup ends up being a little island in all of rugby “explained Lemoine in one of his first interventions. A clear sentence, which was much appreciated by “Cachito”, who issued a very similar opinion.
“The only essential success is that which, once achieved, contributes to improving, to transforming the space in which we live. My dream is that an Olympic DNA is generated, that this spirit exists in every club or sector of the country. It’s one thing to be a champion and another to be able to discover champions. The greatest achievement is to never leave the path to discover every champion of a society. “Explained the Las Diablas coach, who had a very moving day.
The memory of Claudia Schüler
Product of the sensitive death of the former captain of the women’s field hockey team, Claudia Schüler, which occurred on Monday, after a long fight against cancer, the conservatory has made numerous mentions of the exporter of Las Diablas. Moving words from university authorities, to a minute of silence in the middle of the activity. Luciana Aymar, wife of Fernando González and former student of Vigil, also appeared in the audience. , who took the microphone to highlight the Argentine’s role in his career. All these postcards broke a “Cachito” who was still in contact with those present.
It was just before this intervention by Aymar, who attended Schüler’s funeral wake yesterday to accompany DT, that Vigil confessed why he had come to Chile in 2015.What happened is that the Federation invited me to a big dream. A dream bigger than the goal itself. The objective was to generate mass hockey, so that it could be played throughout the country and in all social strata. It was the goal. “We want something more than the results you have had, they told me”, guard.
And it is that, for both strategists, it is essential to look beyond a specific tournament. They came to change foundations and not to bring medals, although they have already done the latter. “The World Cup process is part of our project. Today we make more decisions for 2024, 2025 than for the World Cup. This does not mean that we are not worried about France 2023, but it is important to demonstrate with facts that what is important is what comes after the World Cup. This is a starting point, not an end point. Lemoine maintained.
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