“The Zurdito is going to be good, I am preparing it to make it better than the father. And see that the father was good,” he announced eight years ago in the newspaper As Julio Fis, THE GUANTANAMO HAMMER (More than 1,000 goals in La Asobal), about his son Marcos. That left -hander is here, at 18 recently, the protagonist of a case of which no one finds precedents in the Spanish handball, at least in the modern era. The young man has been summoned for the absolute when he still plays in the Second Division, in the Ciudad Real Caserío, and without debuting in the Junior national Team, the step immediately inferior to the Hispanics. He is the big surprise of Jordi Ribera’s list for the meetings of this Thursday in Italy (19.00) and Sunday in Huesca against Latvia (18.00, both by Teledeporte), where the national team seeks to finish the classification phase for the European 2026.
“He is a boy who has worked a lot with his father. He and his other brother [dos años menor]. I have seen how Julio took them to the parks in free days to practice individual launches and actions. They have helped them a lot with the technique, ”he values on the other side of the Santi Urdiales telephone, the current coach of Marcos Fis in the Ciudad Real Caserío, third classified of the silver category, where the promising right side averages 5.5 goals per match. For the next season, he already has his transfer to the Granollers, in the Asobal.
“Two weeks ago,” the club president Julián Amores is started, “they asked me about the kid and told them: ‘I think it seems a bit daring, but in three or four years I see it in the absolute.’ In the hamlet, Urdiales has been miming, which stands out from him “his maturity on the track.” “He has always played in categories higher than his age. When he was childish, with Cadet. When he was a cadet, with youth. Last year, being first year youth was in the first national. And as Jordi Ribera, the only thing that matters to him is what happens on the track, that will have made the difference,” says the technician.
His father was a more pitcher profile. Marcos has that power, assembles the arm very fast, but maybe it’s more complete. Its greatest strength is the one against one
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Marcos Fis is one of the usual of the technification days that Ribera organizes in the High Performance Center of Granada with the quarry, so the coach has needed little information before encouraged to call it for these official matches. “Calling it has been a very natural process. When the injury of Alex Dujshebaev emerged, he commented on the situation in one of the talks. Marcos also occupies a very difficult position in all countries, because left -handed ones are less. In the end, this is a reinforcement for young people, who see that, if they do things well, the absolute is possible,” says Santi Urdiales.
From the father, who retired in 2008 in Logroño very punished for injuries after passing through Ciudad Real, Bidasoa, Valladolid and Kiel (Germany), he has inherited his launch, although his resources, he details his coach in the hamlet, they do not stay there. “Julio was a more pitcher profile, capable of scoring from almost anywhere. Marcos has that power, he puts the arm very fast, but perhaps it is more complete. His greatest strength is the one against one and, tactically, he understands very well the handball, where he has to go, where to attack and when to release the ball,” describes urdiales to this teenager of a shy and still somewhat clueless character. “It is one of the most determinants of silver. It is almost all good, but of course, it lacks that point of experience, the improvement of a young man of that age. He can be a many -year player in the selection and we will see how he evolves. Next year he will be in Asobal and in Europe,” says Urdiales.
After those family training afternoons in the Parks of Ciudad Real, this course the father has let the new Hispanic follow his evolution in the new club. This Monday, he flew from Barcelona to the Palazzetto dello Sport de Fasano, to southern Italy, in the boot heel, after a surprising call with the absolute selection. handball
