The Cartagena Mayte Mateo and the Muleña Noelia Montoro win the European title with the national team, again in Portugal, and are already thinking about next year’s nomination
The multipurpose pavilion Gondomar has a duende. The Spanish futsal team turns everything they touch on the parquet floor of this Portuguese city into gold. The national team led by Claudia Pons won the European Championship in this setting in 2019 and repeated it last Sunday, this time in a penalty shootout (1-4) after the regulations 3-3 against Portugal. And there the two players from the Murcia region, Mayte Mateo (Cartagena, 28 years) and Noelia Montoro (Mula, 24), already double European champions, experienced a ‘déjà vu’.
The celebration of the title lasted until the small hours in this city, in the capital Porto. The expedition flew to Madrid at noon yesterday, where the Federation and the President, the under investigation Luis Rubiales, received them during a short act at the headquarters of Las Rozas. They also visited numerous media outlets such as ‘Marca’ and ‘As’. With “only four or five hours of sleep” on top of that, Cartagena’s Mayte Mateo answers the phone. This second European, now celebrated by the 2020 pandemic, tastes like glory for the natural girl from La Palma. Claudia Pons recruited her again after overcoming two serious knee injuries. He first went under the knife in July 2019 and then in December 2020.
«I have arrived a little fair, in circumstances. I’ve always said that the 2019 Mayte Mateo was fantastic physically and at a very high level, but little by little I’m getting back to the same as before,” the STV Roldán player told LA TRUTH. She is the captain and the emblem of the Roldanense club, champion of the League and Europe under the sponsorship of the JimboFresh company.
On June 30, Mateo, a CAFD student, terminated his contract with STV Roldán. Last season, the team came close to the final of the national title and fell in a very close semi-final against Burela (3-2). Cartagena wants more. “I want to enjoy the moment, he deserved this championship, it’s the reward for the work; I am happy, enjoying myself and without getting injured. Everyone knows my future, Roldán is my home and we have to wait for it to appear on social networks. I would like to repeat that ‘play-off’ and fight for the national title,” he says.
“Now it’s time for the 2023 European Championship,” adds the muleña Noelia Montoro husky [«gritamos mucho en la final»], which also leaves the door open for its third season on STV Roldán. The next European appointment with the national team is in March 2023, at a location yet to be determined. “We are ambitious and we want more, we are going for the next European Championship,” says Montoro, who is also studying a master’s degree in Physiotherapy. The mule still has “many messages from townspeople” unread. In anticipation of that European Championship, Mateo and Montoro live in the present. And this again goes through the gold bath in the Gondomar Pavilion.
Source: La Verdad
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