There is absolutely nothing like a mother’s love. Nothing. Who doesn’t think so, wonders why someone travels from Campllong (Girona) to New Zealand, returns home, and catches an AVE en route to Madrid to fly to Australia two weeks later. about 75,000 kilometers -72,460, to be exact – that’s what Núria Panedas would have done to see her daughter, Laia Codina, triumph at the World Cup last month. It is worth adding not less internal displacements. “Each one is worth it, and I’ll repeat them three or four times!”provides.
Tomorrow, the mother of the first Girona finalist in World Cup history will go on a world tour once again to land in Sydney. The opportunity deserves it: to be by his daughter’s side in the most important game a football player can play. He has already packed the suitcases, “Because when Laia told me the Federation was offering us a flight, I ran away”, To explain. Communication is complicated by distance, but Núria Panedas didn’t waste time when all she knew for sure was that she would return to Oceania. It was missing the time, but it didn’t matter, it was certain that the final would be played before 12:00 on the Sunday.
best of trips
Panedas didn’t take risks to see his daughter succeed and went to New Zealand to accompany her on the group stage. So did his other daughter, Mariona, who was able to stay. Spain qualified, but Codina had a secondary role in these first matches, despite starting in previous friendlies. “But everything comes and you have to show you can take your place when you have the opportunity, and that’s what happens.”
Now to go back and also with the motivation to see him play in the World Cup final. The Paredes couple – “they know each other a lot on and off the pitch, which makes things a lot easier” – are doing very well and the Campllong defender should stay in Vilda’s eleven on his own. DuringPanedas does not take off his daughter’s 14-year-old shirt.. “I have to work too but I couldn’t miss it and now I’ve used up all the vacation days I have!”
everything unseen
Often the lights of the great stars of world football hide their development stories and those who have always been by their side will know this. “I dream of raising the glass to the best and remembering all the effort, the sacrifices, the surrenders… There’s a lot behind these playersPanedas, touched when he heard his daughter recount the dream he had as a child, said, “Of course, like everyone else… but look what you’ve done now!” she couldn’t help but think.
Journeys to Barcelona by car to catch the train in the afternoon are a long way off. They came home late, “and how tired”, but it was time to get up early in the morning, mother, study and daughter study. Life doesn’t stop. “Luckily we got it together with other parents,” says Panedas, who will never forget this month. “I already told Laia, my heart is not ready for many feelings. I will weep for the unwritten”.
Regardless, the mom is clear on “Reaching the final is already a brutal experience, I don’t know if we’ll ever go through this again”. But to win? “We will. It’s a team that believes from the beginning and that’s why they’re where they are. You see that you’re with them, Laia deserves it and every player on this team deserves it.”