Asimakis on bwinSPORT FM: “Redemption is qualifying for the Olympic Games – Greek polo is worth watching”

About the success of the women’s national polo team by winning the bronze medal at the European championship in Eindhoven, which also gave the ticket to the Olympic Games in Paris, he spoke to News Bulletin 247 Alexandra Asimaki!

The great Greek athlete of Alimos, talking with him Tasso Nikolopoulos at 94.6 she referred to the great distinction of our representative group, to the feelings caused to her after the 7-6 over Italybut also in the goals from now on for the blue and white.

Among other things, Alexandra Asimaki spoke about the moment she saw her daughter at the airport, when the national team delegation returned from the Netherlands, revealing that she was “bent”, while she also spoke about the exclusion of the national team from the Olympic Games in Japan in 2021 .

Finally, he underlined that the pole, it should have more visibilityas the world deserves to watch the efforts of both men and women.

Analytically:

The first conversations with her daughter after qualifying: “When I saw her I “bent” it was the longest time I was away from her. I realized at that moment our success. When I saw her at the airport.”

The first conversation and the feeling after the match: “Redemption! After Beijing I had the honor to be there. It haunted us for many years. In the match in which we were eliminated from the Tokyo Olympics, I was in the maternity ward. It was a painful exclusion. For everyone this qualification was redemption. The road was long and bumpy.

I thought that it might be the end of my career in 2020. Every day I trained, I had in my mind to be ready if the National Team needed me to make it. I didn’t expect the way it turned out that I would play again in the national team. Nevertheless, he came. I always had the belief that we would make it whether I was there or not.”

You will be in Paris and what is the goal of the National Team: “Now a very important burden has been lifted from us. First we go to Doha for the World. We are going to claim the best. The men’s and women’s national team should always be in the elite. Because this is what our Greece deserves. Our effort needs visibility. Especially women’s polo.”