Lithuania and Argetina want basketball gold medal - Olympic games 2008

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August 9, 2008

Lithuania will win the gold ?

Sergio Hernandez, DT selected from Argentine basketball, said that “the medal is now Lithuania”, referring to rival the first Olympic champion in Beijing 2008

“I always have winning mentality,” said Hernandez
BEIJING - Aware of the pressures generated defend the gold medal achieved in Athens, obligation has not prevented him from enjoying a full coexistence and so special that spirit that resides in the Olympic village, selected coach of the Argentine basketball, Sergio Hernandez , Said that not think about what place podium finish of his team and ruled that the gold medal “is now Lithuania.”

“I always have winning mentality, but I will not get to think about what can happen at the end of the tournament. My golden is now Lithuania. If we win them, I got a podium for a few Horit. Then we will do with Australia and so on , “Said Argentine coach, the Olympic village in Beijing.

“When one is awaiting the final goal of always looking at the end of the road, have chances to make mistakes. Where we must be attentive is precisely in the tour, on the road, which is what you ultimately will lead to a rise or another, “added the ‘Sheep’ Hernandez, who live in Beijing his first Olympic experience.

After visiting the Great Wall of China, conducted a training campus in the gym where starting this Sunday will face the challenge of repeating the feat in Athens or at least occupy a place among the first three, something that fans call him this team.

“If Argentina is not in the medallero, so people will have a sense of failure. We know and we can not change it. People are going to consider everything that failure is not a podium,” Hernandez acknowledged.

Anyway, the national coach expressed confidence in their leadership and argued that “have a plus” for having devoted champions in 2004: “Everything that’s happening to a player or a group, influences the next step of his career . One player who proved what is winning, not long want more, because who knows what is behind the success, that has nothing to do with the money, but with glory. And in a more Olympics, “he said.

“It’s a lie so that the second or third have more hunger, while the first achancha. Anyone who already won ever, is power in the next, wants to win in each competition. Otherwise, look to Curuchet, remains classified for the Games, already is on the sixth. The most dangerous athlete or the most dangerous team is one who already knows what it means to win, “he said.

During the extensive interview, Hernandez, sitting comfortably in armchairs in the lobby of the hotel Argentine in Beijing, where it can be seen live TV argentina more than 11,000 kilometers away from our country, anticipated that the Olympic tournament will be very uneven and expressed the need for his players “give their maximum level and develop their full potential”, but argued that “not even any guarantees that position.”

“In Argentina we believe that the only ones who have players in the NBA is us. But others also have five or six NBA, or maybe have three and the rest went to Europe to play because they earn more money. Equipazos there in this tournament and the first with which we play, Lithuania, a rival will be tremendous, “anticipated the Argentine coach.

“There are teams that are as good as us–continued. If one starts thinking about those who can stay out of the cross quarter finals, is complicated. In our area, Croatia, Lithuania, Russia and Australia have a great level. And on the other side, with the entry of Germany and Greece, which are currently powers, could stay out until China, nothing less than the local “, exemplified.

However, Hernandez inspires confidence. He speaks well of his rivals but note that it is quiet with its own campus, something that slips over the end of the talk, which made quite clear their desire to go “step by step ‘in the competition.

“There are very good teams, but Argentina showed in two or three tournaments, such as Indianapolis, Greece and Japan, which finished among the first because it always had a big operation. Now begins a new history and what they have to re-run. On 10 August will begin the truth, “he concluded.

“I never saw the players so happy” Not surprising ending with the experience of being in an Olympic village selected coach of the Argentine basketball, Sergio Hernandez, who assured that never saw “so happy” to their run and, most importantly, the main figures of the team, which went from super professionalism of the NBA this world amateur installed in Beijing.

“Never saw ‘Manu’ (Ginobili) and all the players so happy. I had never been with them in an Olympics, another in a World Cup and other international tournaments. But here they changed everything, face, the smoke .. . ‘Manu’ became the de Bahia Blanca, Fabricio (Oberto) of Las Varillas, this is spectacular, “he confessed coach of the Argentinian team, which is installed from Monday in the Olympic village. “Neither well arrive at the Villa, what I heard Fabricio (Oberto), while expecting the elevator, he said: ‘What is nice to feel this atmosphere back!” It is here that one really takes the most part of each athlete, “added the ‘Sheep’ Hernandez, amazed with the images of coexistence in the Olympic village and the fact of seeing players in the world super professional, as Emanuel Ginobili, pass luxury offered by the San Antonio Spurs to life shared by most amateur athletes.

“Here are all equal, hopefully everyone can live an experience like this, walking through the town and make this life. For example, went from Ginobili handled in a level seven stars, harassed by fans and living in a professional world and what you see here , Grabbing his bandejita food, next to another boy of any nationality who is doing the same thing to him, “Hernandez recounted.

He added: “While I imagined that what life is like in the Olympic village, is very different to be here. There is definitely a turning point for this. It’s like the amateurism back to your life, volvés the essence of sport .

Also stressed the importance of live with the rest of the Argentine representatives of all disciplines in the same building and felt that this is one more motivation “for his run. “The Argentines Powers us when we are together. It’s an excellent idea to be all together in the same building, because now we are supporters of Curuchet, Las Leonas, Meolans … and they are our fans. It’s like that gives you even more eager to bring home a triumph for all Argentines who are here, “he said. Finally, said he was “grateful to life” by the chance to live this experience. “I’m giving it a look different from all this. It’s like in the movie ‘The dead poets society’, when the teacher rises to its top student of the bank and makes you see life from another angle. I am well above the bank, watching all young athletes and this is something impressive. I’m breathing air Olympics, “he concluded.

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