Alexia, Patri Guijarro, Vilda and the European Championship, protagonists this Wednesday at the EP Sports Breakfasts

The internationals and the women's national football team will share their expectations ahead of the continental tournament in England

   MADRID, 14 Jun. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The women's national soccer coach, Jorge Vilda, the internationals Alexia Putellas and Patri Guijarro and the European Championship in England will be the protagonists this Wednesday (12:00 p.m.) at the Europa Press Sports Breakfasts, an event that will be held at the Hyat Regency Hesperia Madrid in the capital of Spain.

At the event, sponsored by DAZN, Loterías y Apuestas del Estado, Repsol and UnicajaBanco, Alexia Putellas, elected the Golden Ball and FIFA The Best Award as the best soccer player in the world in 2021, 'Patri' Guijarro and Jorge Vilda will share their expectations against the European Championship in England, which takes place from July 6 to 31 and in which the Spanish team starts among the favourites.

This forum is the fifth of the fourteenth season of EP's 'Sports Breakfasts', after the president of the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF), Luis Rubiales, inaugurated it in mid-July last shortly after Spain was semi-finalist at Euro 2020, and the president of the Spanish Paralympic Committee (CPE), Miguel Sagarra, shared the success of the Paralympic athletes at the Tokyo 2020 Games.

Subsequently, the president of the Royal Spanish Handball Federation (RFEBM), Francisco Blázquez, reviewed the present and future of national handball and the challenge of organizing the first Women's World Cup in Spain, played last December.

And at the end of last May, the president of LaLiga, Javier Tebas, reviewed the LaLiga Impulso project, warned of the threat to continental football from 'club-states' such as Paris Saint-Germain and advised FC Barcelona to "fill the pantry" to deal with signings like that of Bayern Munich's Polish striker Robert Lewandowski.

In previous courses, Jorge Vilda himself and the internationals Amanda Sampedro, Mariona Caldentey and Silvia Meseguer spoke about their participation before traveling to the World Cup in France. Subsequently, under the title of 'Motor, with 'M' for women', the riders took part: Ana Carrasco, the first woman world champion in Supersport 300; Sara García, casualty world champion; Tatiana Calderón, the first woman to participate in Formula 2, and Marta García, the only Spanish driver in the WSeries.

The president of the CPE, Miguel Carballeda; Teresa Perales, the Spanish athlete with the most medals (27) at the Paralympic Games and the 2021 Princess of Asturias Award for Sports; the athlete Gerard Descarrega, Paralympic, world and European champion in 400 meters; and the cyclist Ricardo Ten, world champion in track and road and bronze in Tokyo, offered an x-ray of the national Paralympic sport before the initial postponement of Tokyo 2020 due to the pandemic.

Under the title, 'Repsol, 50 years of support and triumphs in motor sport', Carlos Sainz, two-time world rally champion and three-time Dakar champion and 2019 Princess of Asturias Award for Sports; Jorge Martínez 'Aspar', quadruple motorcycling world champion and named 'MotoGP Legend'; and Toni Bou, thirty times world trial champion, analyzed the origin and causes that have placed Spain as a world power in motorcycling and motor racing.

The president of the Royal Spanish Federation of Winter Sports (RFEDI), May Peus; The head of Women and Snow of the RFEDI, Paula Fernández-Ochoa, the rider Regino Hernández, bronze in the PyeongChang 2018 Games, and the Olympic skier Juan del Campo spoke about the legacy of Blanca Fernández-Ochoa.

And the general manager of the Movistar Team, Eusebio Unzué, former cyclists Pedro 'Perico' Delgado, Ángel Arroyo and Pablo Lastras and former road cycling world champion Alejandro Valverde reviewed the 40 years of success 'From Reynolds to Movistar', whose riders they had added 930 victories, and seven Tours, four Giros, four Vueltas a España and four World Championships.

In previous campaigns, the main protagonists of national and international sport have paraded through the 'Sports Breakfasts', as is the case with directors of clubs, sports organizations and entities, and athletes and former athletes from multiple disciplines.

Among them, the first president of the CSD, María José Rienda, her predecessors Jaime Lissavetzky, Albert Soler, José Ramón Lete and Miguel Cardenal, and the predecessors, Irene Lozano and José Manuel Franco; the presidents of LaLiga, Javier Tebas, of the RFEF, Luis Rubiales, of the AFE, David Aganzo, of the ACB, Antonio Martín, and of the Spanish Basketball Federation (FEB), Jorge Garbajosa.

Likewise, the president of the Board of Directors of Real Valladolid, Ronaldo Nazario de Lima; the one from Atlético de Madrid, Enrique Cerezo, and the now president of FC Barcelona, ​​Joan Laporta, and the former Real Madrid player Ramón Calderón, the former national soccer coach Vicente del Bosque and the former Liverpool and Real Madrid coach Rafa Benítez.

Presidents of national federations, the then president of the Association of Sportsmen (AD) Cayetano Martínez de Irujo, the Olympic champions Lydia Valentín and Carolina Marín; the riders Marc Márquez, Dani Pedrosa, Jorge Lorenzo, Maverick Viñales, Álex Crivillé, and the '12 1' times world champion Ángel Nieto; Marc Coma and Stephane Peterhansel, 'Monsieur Dakar'; the swimmers Rafa Muñoz, Aschwin Wildeboer and Mireia Belmonte, the 'synchro' swimmers Ona Carbonell and Raquel Corral, and the golfer Miguel Ángel Jiménez.

Likewise, the General Manager of MAPFRE in the Volvo Ocean Race (VOR), Pedro Campos, the skipper of the Spanish challenge, Xabi Fernández, and the crew Támara Echegoyen, the first Spaniard in the history of the regatta, and Joan Vila, considered the best sailor in the world; and the world champion coaches José Vicente 'Pepu' Hernández, Paco Antequera and Javier Lozano, current president of the National Futsal League (LNFS).

There was no lack of former cyclists Miguel Indurain, five-time Tour champion; Alberto Contador, double winner of Giro and Tour and triple champion of La Vuelta; Joaquim 'Purito' Rodriguez; and the best Spanish athlete and basketball player of all time, Fermín Cacho and Amaya Valdemoro.

The former mayor of Madrid Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón, and the former CEOs of the Madrid 2016 and Madrid 2020 Olympic bids, Mercedes Coghen and Víctor Sánchez, analyzed the options of the Spanish capital project to organize the second Olympic Games in the country.

Representatives of international organizations were also at the 'breakfasts' such as the then vice president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the Spanish Juan Antonio Samaranch Salisachs; former London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Legacy Ambassador Lord Sebastian Coe, current President of World Athletics, former IAAF; the former Ambassador of the United Kingdom in Spain Giles Paxman; former Volvo Ocean Race (VOR) General Manager Knut Frostad, and former ASO Deputy General Manager Yann Le Moenner.

In addition, the Extraordinary Secretary of Security for Major Events in Brazil, Andrei Augusto Passos, the Executive Director of the Euroleague, Jordi Bertomeu, the French Ambassador to Spain, Yves Saint-Geours, and the NBA Vice President for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, the Spaniard Jesús Bueno, are on the list of speakers.