From Olga to Tanya Moreno, Paris 2024 surprise: “my dream as a player came true as a mother”

22 years ago, Olga Matveeva was the heroine of Alberto Rivas’s report on Marca and in one of the photos Tanya Moreno appeared, His daughter. More than enough time for that little girl to have managed to overcome her mother and become The first Spanish woman, together with Daniela Alvarez, reaches the quarterfinals of the Olympic Games. It is an achievement that came with that point of Agnico Daniela which turned her into a whole Revealed in Paris 2024.

Flea beach even before I was born

The reason his mother went through the microphone Radio Marka To tell The Inside Story of this report and how the Olympics live in Tanya: “I feel like I’m part of this in one way or another. I put her in and even got to play in my belly when I was pregnant. I was practically born in the sand. It should have been good, S-S-S“, He begins by saying in this tone of illusion of everything they live in.

It was my dream as a player, then it became a dream as a mother

Olga Matveeva, former beach volleyball player and mother of Tanya Moreno

An award for the last two seasons that came earlier than expected: “it’s very difficult to describe it in words. It surprised me a little because his goal was to go to Los Angeles 2028 , but it was all very fast. You caught me everything like I can’t believe it, you see it Ah, but you still don’t treat it. They are such an incredible combination of emotions because as It was my dream as a player, then it became a dream as a mother And also as a coach. It’s a feeling that unites everything. What I’m facing here, the truth, is incredible, ” he says.

Before the game I feel inside those nerves that you are not sleeping well, that you wake up early in the morning… And I say, it can’t be, if I’m not playing I’m

Olga Matveeva

The fact is that the theater, at the Champ de Mars and at the foot of the Eiffel Tower, is unbeatable for its debut in just a few matches: “my hair stands on end. I’m sorry. No need to tell me , just by seeing her… Something on how you feel. I was telling this to a friend of mine… It looks like I’m going to play! Before the match I feel inside those nerves that you are not sleeping well, that you wake up early in the morning… And I say, it can’t be, if I’m not playing I’m. I feel it’s very close… I live as if I were playing it.”

The beginning of a career and an impenetrable reportage

“They sent it to me. It was very funny to see him. I remember that“, He admits when asked about the report 22 years ago. “I remember as if it were yesterday, I see her with such tenderness, being a child. I have many pictures of her who looks like Mrs. Palin, running around the arena and suddenly you see her playing in this playground which gives me goosebumps. “In the third set of the last match I burst into tears, there are a lot of emotions for me,”says Olga Matveeva.

I was three years old and I was already playing crank ball

Olga Matveeva

And since that photo, a long time has passed. At the time Tanya tried her hand at tennis , but she always ended up choosing flea Playa: “I know people whose children did not follow in her footsteps, maybe it was too forced , but I have always given him freedom of choice. In fact, she started training in tennis, but she didn’t like it. No, mom, I want flea. And oh, it started , with five years. I was three years old and I was already playing crank ball. If she likes it, if I see her happy, I just have to encourage and support her.”

And they even played together until two finals of the Spanish championship:” we have to play together, in the Spanish championship, even in two finals, ” she admits. All while explaining how he is making a couple with a daughter: “It’s a wonderful thing, I can’t explain it. I have a connection with her that I do not have if any mother has with her daughter, The buttonhole of this S, but I feel something so special that I can’t describe it in words. My daughter, my student, my friend sometimes, even sometimes she plays me as a mother because with that technology, mavels and things she explains to me, she helps me… I have no words to explain it“.

I do not behave with her at all as a coach, only as a mother

Olga Matveeva

There is no scheduled return date

Although she was a coach at the beginning of her training, it is not a role she currently plays: “I try to separate my role as a mother with my coaching self. I do not behave with her at all as a coach, only as a mother. She has her coach. I can get an opinion about something with my friends, but nannies as a coach. I just want to see her enjoying herself on this court and I’m already happy about that.“

Because of this connection I lived the match and my nerves were on edge: “I was very nervous, but at the same time I had this feeling that they were going to take him out. I don’t know why. Before the start of the match and even when they were losing in the second set. Do not lose this confidence. The good thing about them is that they depend on each other and even if they go below, they will never be noticed. They have this special little thing that I don’t see in other teams. When I communicate , I see that they are like little ants, that they go step by step, fight and fight and fight ; in the end they take it out. It’s something special they have,” he says.

I have no return date. I didn’t even look at her, I s…

Olga Matveeva

An interview that ended with the future on the air and without knowing the date of return, the illusion that she has as a mother and that she saw how she made her daughter a reality: “I have no return date. I didn’t even look at her, not s. I’m going from DA to DA. Match after match, as they should go“, He concludes.