The captain of the ‘Diablas’ Camila Caram, spoke with BioBioChile after her World Cup experience and recognized that it was a tremendous learning experience for her group, facing the new challenges of the national Field Hockey team.
The national field hockey teamknown as the ‘Damn it’They had their first experience World Cup in Europe. With good presentations and a meritorious thirteenth place in the international contest that brings together the best cast of the discipline.
A player, who in turn is the captain of those directed by Sergio Vigiles Camila Caramwho lived for the first time in his career in a planetary tournament.
The excellent player spoke with BioBioChile where he talked about his experience in the contest most important of this disciplineof the feat of being able to compete as equals against a team of field hockey eliteand how is discipline achieved great popularity during the competition.
In the dialogue Camila Caram he pointed: “It was an incredible experience. We had already participated in big tournaments, but none of this caliber. We felt a lot of emotion and joy with the team and we tried to compete and at the same time enjoy ourselves at all times”.
Recalling her matches at the World Cup, the captain of the ‘Damn it’ He stated that “in the group stage, The Netherlands was the most difficult team we faced, as they are the best in the world. However, the direct matchups were the most difficult that we could face as a team”.
One of the most important matches and in which the national teams they couldn’t win was dueling against Belgium, where they were out of the quarterfinals. In relation to this, Caram stated: “It was a team that made it very difficult for us in the tactical part. It was difficult for us to pass their lines.”
“It was difficult for us to have the ball. They took advantage of their opportunities at penalty corners and began to score their goals. It was difficult for them to score goals so early, since we left at half time with a 4 to 0″, highlighted the Chilean.
The best match of the championship
Camila also talked about which was the best match as selection they made in the World Cup, to which the young competitor pointed out: “The game against Ireland was the best, we attacked a lot, we got short, we got the ball and I also highlight the last one against South Africa, since it was a very important game”.
The following challenges for this selection will be to reach the Pan American Games in Santiago 2023 and then the Paris 2024 Olympics. Before these new contests, the national player predicted that “We hope to have tours during the end of this year and the beginning of next, so that we can practice in a good way.”
“The idea is to be able to play against strong teams, to revitalize the learning we got from our first World Cup. We understood when to know how to burn our cartridges, put more pressure and that is thanks to experience,” he said.
Finally, the captain emphasized the support of Chileans during the world event, since before that, little was said about this selection in the local media. In this regard, Caram argued that “We know that our sports are not publicized much, we do not even appear on open television”.
“However, we recognize that there were many people attentive to this tremendous feat. We feel the support from there and we hope that this sport can be better received by the people. We believe that it is a tremendous opportunity for Chilean Hockey to grow and to get to know us”, concluded Camila Caram.