Ribera: “This bronze has more merit because we arrived at a complete reconstruction”

The Spanish handball coach Jordi Ribera He couldn’t hide his pleasure from those ‘Hispanics’ bronze medal They won this Sunday at Olympic Games in Parisbecause it was achieved with a team in the reconstruction process and “with less experience.”

“We came with a team with less experience and we have to take that experience along the way. We know that this is a toll that we have to pay, that this lack of experience will make our hands hot at times, because we were burned in Germany, but that’s why this medal has more merit,” said Ribera.

The lack of experience that, although on the one hand may have burdened the Spanish team in certain moments, also helped the ‘Hispanos’ to recover quickly from the heavy blow suffered against Germany in the semifinals.

“Perhaps those of us who lived in Tokyo where we also had to fight for bronze found it more difficult to recover, because we were almost in the final, but there were many players for whom this was their first Games and helped speed up the group. , because If this group has one thing, it is the ability to rebuild,” said Ribera.

The capacity for reaction that allowed the ‘Hispanics’ to win their fifth medal, all of them bronze, at the Olympic Games and the second in a row after finishing third three years ago in Tokyo.

“I always say that I don’t have medals, I’m obsessed with winning every game we have and in the end there can be a reward, but it’s clear that this medal is very good for our sport and for us it’s an incentive to keep working”, said the Spanish coach.

A Jordi Ribera insists that the senior team is only the “tip of the iceberg” of a larger project in which all the teams in the lower categories are involved.

“The absolute selection is the tip of the iceberg of a larger project. A project that the Federation encourages and that shows that well-planned and organized work can bear fruit,” concluded Ribera.