The Olympic Games started off full for me
frustration. For the 1980 Games in Moscow, we had qualified but
Argentina joined the boycott proposed by the US. Fifteen days
before we left for the trip, we heard the sad news that we would not be present at the Games. For the Games in Los Angeles in 1984 we did not qualify after losing the final of the Pan American Games against Canada, another blow to a generation of very good players that Argentina had in the national team at that time. Finally, in 1988, the reward for so many years of fighting came, we qualified and went to the Olympic Games in Seoul
in 1988. It was the best sporting experience of my entire career. Being able to share 20 days with the elite of world sports was something incredible. Not only with athletes from my sport and from my country, but all of them eating in the dining room was an amazing experience. Meeting Olympic medalists, famous and not so famous, was a privilege.

The experience of living in the Olympic village is great for an athlete, I had the opportunity to talk to professional athletes like Gabriela Sabatini and Miroslav Mecir. For them it was also their first Olympic competition and they told me that they all came here with the same dream and the same desire to compete and be part of this
spectacular event. The years went by and my son Valentin was in the final stages of the process of being in the Dutch national team to participate in the London 2012 Olympic Games. At that moment I made a promise, if Valentin would be in the last 16, which would give him the right to go to the Games, I would tattoo the Olympic rings on my arm. Today I proudly wear the rings on my left forearm, so that my participation and that of my son will never be
to forget. All my life I will be an Olympian, a pride and a privilege as
human being and as an athlete.