They are the ones who, until today, have also accompanied Sofía in her successes. There was high school, yes, but on weekends we traveled to play games outside, and on those bus trips we had such a good time. When I was 14 or 15 years old, the panorama changed a lot. But there was such good vibes that they soon asked me to go out with them outside of training as well. There he found a group of girls who supported each other, in which the normal thing was to strive for the one next to him. And he also played well! She got to be called up with the Castilla la Mancha team, although her reason for persevering was another: she had a good time training with her friends. There, what she had always observed as a defect became a virtue: her height made her valuable. The solution, however, came from elsewhere. The director suspected that something was happening – Sofia had preferred to keep quiet and invent a pretext to leave – and she got involved enough to temporarily calm the waters. “What are you wearing in your hair, sausages?” Each one broke out with a different occurrence, to which one more hurtful, and she, who wanted to respond and vent, intimidated, became “small.” It’s just a trivial example, she says, of what led her to, this time, request a change of center.
I didn’t want to go out, they threatened me… ”Del Prado remembers one day when, sitting at the desk, a group of classmates began to yell at her because of the kind of ponytail she had made that morning, with various rubber bands. “But it dragged too much They saw me weak and I became easy prey.
He believed that it would be a new opportunity, a beginning, tabula rasa. Sofía del Prado during a game with her basketball team from Villarrobledo (Albacete). And, after what she won on the court (friends, values, self-confidence), came fashion, the catwalks and the opportunity to represent Spain in the 2017 Miss Universe pageant. His height was an embarrassment to her, a trauma. Sofía del Prado suffered from it her childhood was marked by peers who emptied her or insulted her. And, he says, other mistakes are made just as serious with respect to the one known as bullying: “It is not a problem between individuals, between an aggressor and a victim, which is solved by putting peace between them or by punishing the bad: a school is a projection of society, and the social approach is the only appropriate one ”, explains Casla. The team hasn’t specified the latest problem or if Oladipo will play again this season.No, they are not children’s things, and Koldo Casla, co-author of the first Amnesty International report on bullying in Spain, says that the astonishing validity of that excuse between parents and teachers is one of the main culprits that only 4% of the cases of harassment are reported to the educational institution. But he has appeared in only four games with Miami and is now sidelined by a recurrence of knee issues. Miami has maintained high hopes of being a playoff contender again, especially after making a trade last month for former All-Star Victor Oladipo. The Heat then went 15-4, resembling the team that went to last season’s NBA Finals.Īnd now comes this slide. Key players - Butler among them - missed time because of virus-related issues early, one factor in the 7-14 start. It has been a roller-coaster season for Miami. 7 spot in the East, 1 ½ games behind sixth-place New York in the race to avoid the play-in round that will begin the postseason. “Not getting into bodies, scared of some contact. That’s it,” Butler said after the loss to one of his former clubs. Minnesota outrebounded Miami 45-33 and outscored the Heat 23-5 in second-chance opportunities. The 119-111 win allowed the Timberwolves to pass Houston and escape the league’s basement for the first time since Jan. Minnesota entered Friday with the NBA’s worst record. “And if we don’t fix it, I hope it continues to happen to us.” Home, away, no matter what opponent you’re playing against, you just stroll into the game thinking you’re nice, you’re good, this is what happens. And I’m glad because that’s what this game does for you. We just think we’re such a good team, and then reality hits us, we’re humbled. “It’s almost like it’s expected, in a bad way to put it. “It’s not frustrating because we do it so often,” Butler said.