He has just finished the XIIº World Championship for National Teams and Pairs. One of the most important events of this season has brought down the curtain and, with that, the hour of analysis and reflection has arrived. One of the names of the history of the paddle, one of the members of the Spanish team that played the first World Cup in history (Madrid-Sevilla, 1996), offers its conclusions in the article that you can read below.
Padel World Press .- Through his column in the Diario Sport, the current Technical Director of the Catalan Federation of Padel (FCP) and Catalan coach in all categories analyzes all the details of an appointment from which important conclusions could be drawn ... Do not miss it!
“This week the XII Padel World Championship and the IV World Championship for National Teams and Couples have been disputed in Mallorca this week. It should be differentiated from the one held in odd-numbered years, the World Open Championship, whose last editions were played in Barcelona and Bilbao and which will host Miami in 2015.
Some say that in the sporting aspect the World Cup by Nations has little content. If we restrict the analysis to the fight for the title, they would be right, since in the Women's Category Spain has the three best couples in the world while Argentina is far ahead of any other team other than the Spanish.
In the Men's Draw, the situation is reversed, with the Argentine padel still in the top spot. Only the nationalization of some of its best players allowed the Spanish team to fight one on one for the title, although in the end it fell from the albiceleste side. I must say in this respect that the laws are the laws and those players have as much right to defend Spain as any other ... But it is no less true that Argentine padel deserves more this title than the Spanish paddle. At least, for the time being and as long as Spain continues to decide to participate in the World Cups, a situation that, according to recent history, does not seem assured.
However, the World Championship for Nations does not end with the fight for the title. Other 14 selections, in addition to those who played the previous phase, participate in it ... Maybe 'your World Cup' does not have the repercussion of the struggle for the first positions but, for each of those countries, their war is the most important.
And links this last argument with the congratulations and the recognition that the International Padel Federation (FIP) deserves, an organization that, despite the obstacles that some of its most prominent members put in its path, has once again managed to complete a vital test for the international development of the paddle. Those 14 countries that do not fight for the title, and others that will come, are the future of this sport. Without them there is no tomorrow and the only institution that watches over their development is the FIP, as well as the federations that make it up and support it (which are not all, as we have said).
In the organizational aspect, one has no references other than that published by any of the players participating in social networks. It seems that The Spanish Federation of Padel (FEP), as head of the organization, does not appear well in those comments. Some participants even talk about the worst organization of the eight World Cups they have played. I, as I say, I have not been present although it is true that these comments are worrisome and strange, especially if we take into account the trajectory of the FEP, always leading in the organization of events and faithful to compliance with the regulations.
To finish, and from the affection to the FIP, I would like to suggest that as the padel organized is currently, perhaps it would be appropriate to try to collaborate with the World Padel Tour, without a doubt the most powerful organization in this sport worldwide.
Both the FIP and the professional padel must be the spearheads of the expansion of the paddle and that forces them to go hand in hand, at least on certain occasions.
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