Jorge Maqueda is a unique player. It is not the highest, nor the fastest, nor the one that throws at the highest speed, nor the one that makes the most precise passes. But sometimes it is essential. When the opponents prevent playing, when the score is equal, when the boos of the audience rumble, it's time. Its innate and uncontrollable intensity - for the rivals and for himself - can save the most committed encounter and that happened this Saturday in the victory against Austria (30-26).
This engineering Spain, so serious and mathematical, was discovered in Vienna in the middle of an ambush, before a selection on fire, and did not know how to react. At first, he was soaked in the environment and altered his principles - with an unleashed exchange of goals - but then he understood that this way he could not secure the victory. To maintain the exaltation and, at the same time, maneuver in the game, I needed a specialist. And on the bench was Maqueda. The coach Jordi Ribera , who in past championships did not summon him and preferred the quiet Eduardo Gurbindo , pointed him out and the show began.
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