Yes, because it is not the same to say: "Camagüey won in the version of the juvenile soccer", that to accompany this affirmation with an essential precedent: "the province was not celebrating an event like that since 1987".

The gold shines more when it is taken to the context of the most universal in the province; without going too far, one year ago the same category anchored twelfth.

It was during those days that Mario Matamoros Casimiro decided to direct the team.

Postponing the responsibilities as head of Department in the School for Sports Initiation was the first step. "We concentrate on the boys and their discipline. If I am honest, I was not surprise by the title, in fact it was the outcome of a lot of work, of a long process and that not always was easy, but which we kick off from the only thing that cannot be missing in a team: the unit and the discipline".

- The only thing?

- The only thing. We kick off by setting the order, so the boys could work as a whole. It is useless if a player is very good but at the same time without discipline. That one in fact hurts a lot. After achieved this target, the following thing was to privilege the training and tactics, to develop the elements that we knew that were making us stronger.

- There called the attention the resistance of our players and their effectiveness, a topic in which the Cuban soccer suffers in all its categories...

- On the first thing we were asked a lot. The regular ones were supporting the whole match giving good results, generating actions... The resistance is obtained during the training. It is true that "natural" conditions exist, but if they do not develop themselves, they are nothing. This was a task on which we concentrate, as in the actions of goal. The question consists in reaching and scoring. The soccer is a sport that is won with goals, if you do not socre, the others will. We inculcate the game dynamics to the team: "you go out, to press in the whole field, that the best defense is the attack".

- In his major the victory looks like a permanent partner, from teams of the first category up to children and young people: is there any secret?

- Since the epoch in which I was a player I have always try to do my best. One can lose, the sport is like that and the same way you prepare yourself also others are prepared; one can lose, but you must to do your best. This way I face all the championships, the rest is coming game after game.

In their way to the scepter, our juvenile ones won ten of the twelve qualifying matches and four of the five disputed in the final; later, they contributed six figures to the selections of the Cuba team in the categories sub-17 and sub-20. Detail more or less, this performance highlights like one of the most outstanding of the soccer in the recent history of the province and points at its imminent future in the major competitions.

Who knows. Perhaps very soon, some of the protagonists of this reunion with the gold, lead also the passage towards promissory outcomes in the national classic.

Translated by BA in English Language, Manuel Barrera Téllez

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