Alexandra Do Nascimiento, her mom, is without doubt one of the greatest handball gamers in her place in latest instances The Atticgo Club Balonmano Elche is sixth within the Iberdrola Guerreras League and fourth within the EHF European League They signed Ale when she was a couple of months pregnant
Lia does not miss a coaching session or a recreation, and though she nonetheless hasn’t walked but, at simply 5 months outdated, she is the youngest signing of the Atticgo Club Balonmano Elche, a handball membership that’s sixth within the Iberdrola Guerreras League and fourth within the EHF European League (Women’s European Cup)
Of course, Lia doesn’t play, she is the daughter of Alexandra Do Nascimiento, a Brazilian participant that the Elche membership signed when she was nonetheless pregnant.
“An excessive proper that we had requested us to have the ability to go to Bordeaux to his nation because of household issues, whereas we have been searching for a alternative we came upon that Ale had left his crew and that he had moved from France to Alicante. His sister-in-law who works with us instructed us. So we bought in contact along with her to see if she needed to come back,” explains Juanjo Ávila, president of the membership.
At that point Alexandra (Ale) was already pregnant and though she was within the provide, she made it a precedence to have the ability to reconcile her position as a mom with that of knowledgeable participant. And the membership agreed.
“I discussed it to the coach Joaquín Rocamora, and the reality is, I assumed he wouldn’t agree as a result of he’s a really demanding coach however he didn’t trigger any issues. On the opposite, he instructed me that in some Scandinavian international locations the gamers convey their companions and infants with them,” provides Ávila.
Ale is without doubt one of the greatest handball gamers in her place in latest instances, a world participant with a powerful sports activities curriculum behind her who has performed within the final 5 Olympic Games, was runner-up on the planet with Brazil and in 2012 she was chosen as the perfect participant on the planet of handball. Her profession has all the time been essential to her and, like many different elite athletes of hers, she delayed motherhood so long as potential, till there got here a time when she could not wait any longer.
“My husband can be a world handball participant (Chilean nationalized Spanish Patricio Martínez) and we each journey loads. We have been collectively for 17 years (married 11), and though we have been clear that we needed infants, it was not our precedence. Until I turned I used to be 40 years outdated and I started to suppose that it was time. I had a miscarriage with my first being pregnant and once I bought pregnant once more shortly I knew that Lía was crucial factor,” says Alexandra.
For this cause, she initially settled in San Juan (Alicante) to attempt to be a mom away from handball, till Atticgo knocked on her door.
“When we began speaking, we tried to see how we may do it. It was one thing new each for me and for the membership. I did not know the way the woman was going to be, if I may practice along with her, I needed to breastfeed her. But all the pieces labored out properly.” , Add.
So that Ale may think about sports activities, the membership has employed a babysitter who takes care of Lía whereas her mom trains. Every day from 7 pm to 2 am. Ale and Lía go away San Juan round 6:00 p.m. to reach on time, and as soon as on the membership the little woman stays along with her Catrina, her babysitter, whereas Ale trains, though she first feeds her in order that Lía be calm
“Maybe when she begins along with her tooth, issues will change, however in the mean time she is an excellent and bearable child. She behaves phenomenally and we’re delighted along with her,” says Juanjo Ávila, who is aware of what he’s speaking about as a result of on some event he has had additionally to assist with the baby: “When we went to Serbia we did not discover a babysitter, we all the time search for one with the assistance of different golf equipment and when it isn’t potential her aunt takes care of her, however this time she had conferences. That’s why we stayed taking care of her Teresa, my spouse and I”, says the president after confessing that: “I had misplaced my behavior a bit”. Ávila has 3 youngsters, “and the youngest is already round 22,” he provides.
The president and Alexandra usually are not the one ones proud of the deal. The remainder of the crew, and even the opposing gamers, are doing properly too. “I really feel that in a method I’m opening a door for different feminine athletes. I might have cherished to have Lía earlier than, however I did not suppose it could be straightforward,” she displays. Alexandra earlier than saying goodbye to breastfeed her child.
And possibly it is true. Juajo Ávila confesses that at the beginning they didn’t know the way it was going to prove both, however now they’re additionally conscious that they’ve paved the best way for different gamers to additionally go for motherhood: “Everything is being constructive. Ale is an effective signing, he brings a collection of issues that’s not straightforward to search out and the remainder of the gamers are delighted with the state of affairs. And it isn’t tough. You simply have to prepare your self”, explains the president of a membership that has made historical past by supporting household reconciliation.