HANDBALL | ASOBAL LEAGUE Antonio García: “My little thorn is not having beaten Barça”

HANDBALL ASOBAL LEAGUE Antonio Garcia My little thorn is

When it seemed that he was out of the possible selection lists, Antonio García once again opened the door to Spain and at 38, the Granollers winger is experiencing a second youth in a team that competes for second place in the League: it is in the hands of the platel that leads Bidasoa by one point. There are three games left, it depends on the Vallesans, who this Saturday receive a Puente Genil in the final stretch, harassed by the proximity of the descent.

– Do you already see yourself second in the League?

-What I see myself is fighting for it, which already has a lot of merit, Nobody would have thought that we could fight for the runner-up when the League started, because it is not a large squad, and because there are very young players, with two stars with a lot future, like Chema Márquez, who ended up in a big team in Europe, and like Pol Valera, a different player.

-And you no longer receive offers like most of the Spaniards who stand out in the League?

-Uy, more than ever, but unless the club plays a prank on me in the time I have left to play, I’ll retire at Granollers. I already have that clear. I’ve had enough with my years away from Spain.

-What do you have left to do in the League?

-My aspinita is never having beaten Barça. He was on a team that beat him, but I was a junior and I don’t count that victory as mine.

-Spain guarantees its League thanks to the fact that it is a quarry for foreign teams?

-I think that the solvency of the League is decreasing, that the contracts of 40,000 euros from a few years ago are now 20,000, and that is why anyone who stands out a little leaves. A few years ago you left when you had done something important; but now any player project is already packing up. It is not a good idea to train as a foreigner, but it is what it is now.

-Do you know that being second at the end of the season means winning the Puente Genil this Friday?

-We have been going out to win all the games for a long time. Because of my age, and because there are players who are twenty years older, I am the one who tells war stories, but what exists in the entire squad is the desire to do the best possible in all games.

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