2023-06-24 23:38:11
Tennis led Yago Granda Alvera (Avilés, 2000) to cross the pond in 2018. From that time, with his baccalaureate just finished, this young man from Aviles was not clear about his future, but the rackets helped him make his way and put your ideas in order.
“I had been playing tennis all my life and the opportunity arose to come to the United States to study the career with a scholarship,” he explains. She had no doubt. At that moment, he knew that this was “an incredible idea” and he quickly packed his bags to “study Engineering, at the same time that he could continue practicing sports.”
Yago finished his studies a year ago and is now doing a master’s degree online, at the same time that he moonlights “at a tennis club and at a market analysis technology company,” as he explains. “The truth is that I’m always on top, but I love this life of non-stop and doing different things all the time,” he laughs.
It is precisely this desire that Yago has to live that must be responsible for his fondness for the frenetic pace of New York. “I like this city because you always have things to do and, for whatever hobbies you have, you will always find people who want to do it with you,” he says, convinced that, among the skyscrapers, “it is impossible to get bored.” The educational system is not even boring there, which has nothing to do with Spanish. “It’s very different, here you have much more freedom,” he says. “In the United States you have to go to all the classes, you can’t skip, but they pay much more attention to the practical part,” he continues. “If you forget to put something in an exam, it doesn’t matter so much, because they pay more attention to other types of things.”
That makes studying a lot easier and makes you want to stay in those parts for another season. “I am very entrepreneurial and now I am starting a business related to the world of sports,” he points out, hoping that this adventure has a happy ending. “I just had my visa renewed, so I’ll stay here for two more years for sure,” he celebrates. And, after that period of time, he will have to reflect again on his future. “I think I’ll stay a little longer and then I’d like to go back to Europe,” he says. “Maybe I don’t see myself in Spain, but there are other areas of the continent that I like and the area of Saudi Arabia also attracts my attention, so I would like to spend a few years there.”
What Yago is clear about is that he is open to discovering “anywhere in the world”, as long as it allows him to never get bored as he does in New York. And, above all, a place where work gives him the chance to continue enjoying tennis, that sport that, five years ago, opened the doors of his future wide open.
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