This High Performance Centre, located in Sant Cugat del Vallés, reunites top-class athletes from Spain and all around the world.Īs Joan Fontserè, CAR’s director, explains “the CAR is the tool that federations and government have in order to give internationality to the sportspeople of the country”. Having an international trajectory is the main requisite for entering the CAR. Once the young athletes have achieved their goals, they go from the second division to the Champions League of the High Performance Centres in Catalonia: the CAR. The last step: the High Performance Centre (CAR) “We teach them that when they arrive starving to the dining room, they can’t eat a double plate of spaghetti”, exemplified the co-ordinator Deiros. For example, the psychology service organises food workshops to improve athletes’ diets.
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But the residence work is not only focussed on results, but also on teaching the young residents how to take care of their health. The young sportsmen and women have at least three coaches and different facilities such as health monitoring and psychology in order to achieve their objectives.
Most of them are women and “that’s because basketball and synchronised swimming modules are only offered for girls”, explains Manuel Deiros. Nowadays, the ‘Joaquim Blume’ residence has 153 young sportspeople using its facilities. This residence located in Esplugues de Llobregat, to the west of Barcelona, offers scholarships and training facilities for ten different sports: modern pentathlon, athletics, women's basketball, athletics for blind people, ice skating, golf, handball, synchronised swimming, athletics for people with cerebral palsy and volleyball.Ĭentres like this residence or the CAR exist in Catalonia because they are part of the High Performance and Federated Sport of the Catalan Sports Council, co-ordinated by the Catalan Government. Created in 1990, the ‘Joaquim Blume’ residence is the only centre which is multidisciplinary. In Catalonia there are six of these centres, and the greater part of them are specialised in one sport such as canoeing or cycling. Those young athletes who could have a future in the sports world have the possibility to go to a Sports Technification Centre, basically to improve their performance. ‘Joaquim Blume’ Residence, the Sports Technification Centre And this basically depends on their sporting results, but also on their academic results.
“They have to earn their place year in year out”, explains Manuel Deiros, the residence co-ordinator. In contrast to these four-year programmes offered by the CAR, athletes are accepted at the ‘Joaquim Blume’ Residence for one year.
The sporting programme is usually done for four years and from here the athlete has to keep consolidating his own objectives”. The test for entering the CAR or the Blume Technification Centre is the projection of the athlete: if there are good results and international projection is possible, the Federation makes a proposal to the government with the objective that the athlete can enjoy the services of the centres and achieve the sporting goal that both federation and government have agreed upon.Īs CAR’s director Joan Fontserè explains, “once inside the centre, exams are constant. The sportsperson must be part of a Federation in order to represent their country internationally.
The procedure for entering these types of centres is through the Federations and the government. This multidisciplinary centre, apart from making athlete technification easier, also teaches them how to combine their sporting life with an academic education. This is the main objective of the ‘Joaquim Blume’ residence, one of the six Sports Technification Centres currently located in Catalonia. But there is a first step before entering the CAR and achieving internationalisation. These three Catalan athletes all have in common the fact that they started their careers by entering a High Performance Centre and improving their preparation, specifically in the High Performance Centre in Sant Cugat del Vallès, el CAR, where nearly 1,000 young sports men and women train every day. Barcelona (CNA).- Mireia Belmonte, Ona Carbonell and Gervasio Deferr.
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