lunes, 9 de diciembre de 2013

First Press Conference In USA

Hello everybody we are going to start Javier´s first press conference as a professional player.

First question?
-                                    Good morning Javier, What do you think about the match that your rivals have put to you?
+     It was a very hard match, since the beginning to the end but we could use    
       our game at time and we could win at the end.

Next question?
-                                How have you seen LeBron, who is considerate the best player in the world right now?
+   Well how you said, he is the best player right now and he showed it again, to
him was very difficult to adapt to the rhythm of the match at the beginning of the match, but then he could adapt and well he showed it scoring 35 points.

Next question?
-                               Do you think the referees helped you today?
+   Sorry, I am not here to talk about the referees

Next question?
-                               What do you think about the technical fault?
+   I think if the referee had a good reason to call the technical fault then he did it right, but as I said, I am not here to talk about the referees decisions

Any more question?
-                              Yes here, there are some rumors that you are going to get out from the team the next season, Is that truth?
+   Until the end of the season I have a contract here, but I don´t know what is going to happen then.


Well that has been the last question, now Javier must travel with the rest of the team, thank you.

domingo, 8 de diciembre de 2013

Me, Myself and I

Hi my name is Javier Martín and I am from Madrid, Spain, in this post I am going to explain how I have become who I am right now with different examples of the things that have happened to me during all my life, since I can remember. The three adjetives that I think could define me the best are: positivity, friendly and cosmopolite. And all of them have helped me during all my life to have a happy life.
The first experience where I use my friendship quality, could be in  Real Madrid, which I consider the best club in the world, they called me to try to be part of their club when I was 11-12 years old. My parents would drive me to practice and tell me “Remember you just have to have fun, don´t worry if they don´t choose you.” And I remembered I was eager to listen them, the next thing I remember of that day was on the court with at least 30 other guys bigger, taller and better than me, but there was one guy who was as tall as me and I went close to him and ask him “What is your name? Mine is Javier,” he told me his name was Ilia, and we were at all the practices doing every exercise together because, like me, he didn´t know anyone else there. When the practice finishes the coaches told  all of us they just want 6 guys and I told him, “Ok, they just want to six of us, so this is going to be difficult but they just need to choose four more because you and me are the other two,” he looked at me like I was crazy, but I was all right, because we two were choosen. The thing we didn´t know was that we were the only two who were under 15 in that practice, which explain that all the other players were bigger, taller and better than us but the best thing is that we were choosen by them and we played together for 3 years.
I can show my positivity also, when I was 15 years old and I decided with my parents to go to live in another city 400 kilometres from my home, my parents, my family and my friends. One ACB team contact with me and offered me a scholarship because of the basketball. The first time I thought about it I remember I cried because I didn´t want to go that far from everything I knew, but the next day I woke up and went to my parents, I told them “I have decided I want to try it,” because the ACB team, they told me they wanted to see if I could be good enough for them. The decision was made and they sent me two train tickets for my dad and me, we traveled to Seville for the practice, they were showing me everything, where I were going to live, the school, where I were going to practice with the team, and the big stadium of the ACB team, so I just met the coach and started practicing with three more guys. After the practice they told me they wanted me and that the last decision was mine so we came back to Madrid and told my parents, “This is going to be one year, maybe two or three, but every weekend I have free I will come and stay with you,” so they told me “Ok, if this is what you want, let´s do it,”it was only for one year but I made friends for life and by the moment is one of the best decisions I have taken in my whole life.
And finally cosmopolite, and that is why I am here in the USA, 7220 km from home learning another language, meeting a lot of people, and all of this while I practice my biggest passion: Basketball. I think to be cosmopolite has helped me since I was 15 but I can realize it now, when I am in a different country, and even more, here in Westminster College, which is helping me to know people all around the world and it is helping me to realize that I can have friends from different cultures, different points of view and understand all of them and like most of them.
My life is constantly changing, but now I know I'm the one who decides which path to follow, I am not afraid to fail, I have too much things in my life and I have being able to raise over all of them, that is why right now I can say proudly I am happy and I love my life.

Music

Me cortaron las alas                                                          
Me sentí débil sin ellas                                          

Escondido entre sabanas                                      
No pude ver las estrellas                                       

No paré de luchar, no paré de perder                 
Cogí la sartén por el mango y me quemé            

Huí de mis problemas, pero estos me acorralaron
Hundido entre penas, quise todo abandonarlo

Tiré la toalla pero alguien la recogió
Esta vez voy a por todas dijo, y me la entregó

Quizás el destino me dio otra oportunidad
Ultima quizás, así que tendría que aprovecharla

Iluminado de nuevo mi camino cogí aliento
Y empecé a correr bien rápido en contra del viento

Ríos, valles, montañas, nada me detiene
Orgulloso de estar junto a la gente que me quiere

Algunos vienen y otros van, pero los que están, están
Y los que no me quieran bah, que digan lo que quieran

Van de duros algunos pero lo que les falta es cariño
Niños con ojos de adulto, adultos con ojos de niño

Que tiemble el destino y me ponga un reto nuevo
Que tiemble el destino porque hoy, yo, PUEDO.




They cut my wings,
I felt weak without them,

Hidden between sheets,
I could not see the stars,

I did not stop fighting, I did not stop losing,
I took the frying pan on the handle and burnt myself,

I fled from my problems, but they cornered me,
Sunk between pains, I wanted to leave it all,

I threw the towel but someone gathered it,
“This time Ill go for it” I said, and I did,

Maybe destiny gave another chance,
Maybe the last, so I had to take advantage of it,

Illuminated again my way, I took a breath,
And I started running so fast against the wind,

Rivers, valleys, mountains, nothing can stop me,
Proud to be with the people who love me,

Some of them come and some leave, but the ones who stay, really stay,
And those who do not want me bah, they can say what they want,

Some of them think they are so tough but they only need affection,
Kids with adult eyes, adult with kid eyes,

The destiny shakes and he gives me a new challenge,

The destiny shakes because today, I can do it.



The reason I like this song is because the guy who wrote it has had a lot of problems in his life. The he faces are problems that some people have used as an excuse for suicide, but in this song he tries to explain that it does not matter how bad things can get or how hard destiny can hit you, the only thing that really matters is your ability to rise against all odds and fight for anything you want to do. Life is going to be hard sometimes it can be hard to live but if you have good friends, you can do it all. The only way to have friends is to find people you are yourself with, not those people that you have to be someone else for them to like you, because if you do it, there is going to be a moment when not even you are going to recognize yourself. Then you are alone again, because those who you consider your friends are not there any longer. If you are yourself, you are going to see that those people are going to appear, they are going to like you as you are and you are going to be happy.

And he also wants to say that now kids only want to be older because they think old people can do every thing they want to. The reality is that with older people, the only thing they really want to do is to go back in the time and be kids again, because kids are happy with small things in life and they do not have to be worried all the time, if not that, their only worry is to be a kid. 


Basketball curriculum

NAME: Javier Martín Ortega
AGE: 20
CITY OF BIRTH: Madrid
ACTUAL RESIDENCE: Fulton, MO, USA
SPORT: Basketball
YEARS PRACTICING THE SPORT: 15

PATH
2000-2004 C.B. San Fernando
2004-2005 Alevin C.B. Coslada/Estudiantes/Real Madrid/Preselección Madrileña
2005-2007 Infantil C.B. Coslada/ Real Madrid
2007-2008 Cadete C.B. Coslada
2008-2009 Cadete A Cajasol de Sevilla/Selección de Sevilla
2009-2010 Junior B 1ª división Madrid Estudiantes
2010-2011 Junior A 1ª división Madrid/ Liga EBA Real Canoe
2011-2012 1ª Nacional C.B. Tajamar
2012-2013 1ª Nacional C.B. Tajamar
RECORDS
4º position de Madrid categoría Alevín C.B Coslada 2005
2º position national tournament Villa d´Alginet Real Madrid 2005
2º position national tournament de El Genoves Real Madrid 2005
2º position national tournament de Xativa Real Madrid 2005
2º position national tournament Villa de La Roda Real Madrid 2005
1º position Eskobasket Tres Cantos con el Real Madrid victory in the final against F.C. Barcelona 2006
2º position Campeonatos Escolares Comunidad de Madrid 2008
4º position international tournament Santa Coloma de Gramanet Cajasol de Sevilla 2008
1º position national tournament de las Palmas de Gran Canaria Cajasol de Sevilla 2008
1º position tournament  city of La Palma del Condado Cajasol de Sevilla 2009
1º position Campeonato de Andalucía selecciones provinciales Cadete Sevilla 2009
4º position national tournament Ciutat de Tarrasa Cajasol de Sevilla 2009
3º position Campeonato Andalucía Cadete Clubes Cajasol de Sevilla 2009
3º position Intersector classified  for the National Championship Cadete Cajasol de Sevilla 2009
9º position National Championship Cadete 2009
14º position in Madrid category Junior Estudiantes 2010
2º position nacional tournament de Albacete Estudiantes 2010
2º position nacional tournament de Badajoz Estudiantes 2010
3º position national tournament de Talavera de la Reina Real Canoe 2011
8º position in Madrid category Junior Real Canoe 2011
6º position in Madrid 1ª Nacional C.B. Tajamar 2012


As you can see here I have been playing in too many different teams, sometimes because they didn´t want me anymore, sometimes because I wanted to go to another team that offered me more, but the good thing about have been in a lot of teams is that I have a lot of different friends everywhere, and I know I can have them if I have any problem.
Friendship is one of the things I appreciate the most, maybe is because I have been playing since I was very young that I have learn how to appreciate when someone help you with something because you are not able to do it by yourself, and I think the best way to learn it is with sports, and it is because you have to trust your teammates during the whole season, even if they are not doing a good game or even practice.
Another thing why I have keep playing basketball is because I enjoy it when I am playing, even when I have had serious injuries, I have been going to every practice and every game and I have wait until I have been healthy enough to come back. But there has been some times I have come back earlier than I should and I have had troubles with my body, and I have been playing during long periods with a lot of pain, but as I saw that my teammates needed me, pain was temporary and even when I could not walk for 2 or 3 days after an the next days or after have been a whole week with high fever, I have gone to the gym and play with my teammates, my friends and my brothers.