But the hardest for Cruz, a key player in the successful cycle of the national team, arrived at the rally last November in Valencia. “This is still a job and these practices are workplace harassment,” he adds. The Catalan does not hide that having to “obey someone who makes your life impossible is very hard mentally” and that if they did not laugh “thank you” to the technician, he considered the person involved as “problematic”.

“We all suffered and became strong among ourselves, but over time, he consolidated this need for conflict to develop his tenure and began to foster unhealthy competition within the team,” he says. Lucas Mondelo expresses rejection and announces legal measures against Marta XargayĬruz remember that the selection group was “very close too” against the selector. Medals and titles don’t have to be so expensive, ”he says. We love to compete and overlook intolerable things. Hopefully no partner will ever experience this deal again. “You have to normalize saying enough, not always swallowing. Per Cruz, the pressure of the weight used it mondelo al Kursk Russian as “strategy and harassment, not medical control” and that with this treatment “has sunk many players.” “It didn’t catch me there, but it diminished me in other ways,” admitted the winger, saying that “the demand for elite sports cannot destroy the rest of the values” and that ” not everything is worth winning and winning cannot justify everything ”.

The Catalan thus joins the complaint of his partner Marta Xargay, who in the same newspaper acknowledged the pressure to which the coach was subjected with his weight and that made him suffer episodes of bulimia and also leave basketball. His continued psychological abuse caused me stress, anxiety, depression … It led me to leave the national team and go through a very difficult process “, stresses Cruz in an interview published this Thursday by ‘The country’.

“It is very difficult to reach the elite and it is very hard to have to leave because a person makes your life impossible, but you do it to save your health. The Spanish player Anna Cruz he also admitted to having been abused by the former basketball coach Lucas Mondelo, whose “continued psychological abuse”, which, especially at the rally last November, made him say “enough” and leave the national team in January.

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