I am excited to see boys and girls running around on the soccer fields, it draws a smile on my face to see the affectionate gesture of a mother at the door of a sports facility, and it comforts me every time I see our youth team, from any sports discipline, play and practice sports but above all have fun... and believe me when I tell you that there is no greater satisfaction for me, a sports councilor eager to do things.
I must confess that I suffered and suffer from the after-effects and consequences of the pandemic, and not only at the health level, but also from the hours and hours of sports and fun that our sons and daughters have missed.
Now that the pandemic is giving us a break or seems to be receding, we have returned to semi-normality in almost all sports, and we have shown that with political will and responsibility everything is possible; From the Yaiza City Council we opted for the Yaiza Extremo Sur in December 2020, with 200 MTB and trail runners peering through Los Ajaches. And now we are on the verge of recovering something as our own as Latin sailing, which after 482 days without competition Yaiza brings it back from the restrictive depths in which some take refuge to do nothing, so that nothing moves... The I Latin Sailing Cup of the South arrives to consolidate and does so with 11 boats and more than 70 sailors from all over Lanzarote, it is one more example of how committed Yaiza is to sports.
But it hurts me in the soul and I say it like this, with passion, because it is something that undoubtedly touches me closely, very closely... Our "Canarian Wrestling" this noble sport, which in my case saw me born as an athlete and to which I have been linked for so many years, even as the commander of the southern team. That is why I know about this honorable fight of our ancestors, ambassadors of island pride and healthy competition, which continues to be paralyzed. The fight continues to go through moments of confinement and yet there are possibilities that no one explores, or that no one, in the political sphere, worries about or deals with.
Furthermore, being a "Canarian" public official implies much more than celebrating Canary Islands Day, or dressing up as a pilgrim when it is time, but it is in these moments where our deepest Canarian identity must emerge and bet on the recovery of the most traditional customs by implementing preventive control measures against covid in the field of Canarian Wrestling, and there, the Government of the Canary Islands must make a great effort, together with the local administrations and the Island Councils, trying to implement the protocol recently designed by the Canarian wrestling federations, so that our sport can be experienced again in the arenas. We must implement it soon, and demonstrate that this sport is also safe.
In addition, I feel that as a fighter that I still consider myself, Canarian wrestling is dying, it is affected by the virus of political indifference but also by the complicity of all the agents involved in this sport. Therefore, it is not only about politicians, if we truly want to recover this sport, it is the athletes and clubs themselves, and especially in the professional field, who must also help to return to the arena, and my proposal is that we lower our own economic expectations and bet on competing safely by paying for the PCRs and all the contingency plans that are necessary and that correspond so that this beautiful battle between nobles does not fall into oblivion.
Therefore friends, the next fight must be precisely to recover our flagship sport, our great hallmark, that's why friends. What if we try?
Angel Lago, Sports Councilor of the Yaiza City Council
