Amaya Valdemoro already has her biography. Under the pen of journalist Julián Redondo, Amaya recounts in “Nací Luchando” (I was born fighting) from the Espasa publishing house the sweetest side of his life, but also the most bitter: from the loss of his mother when he was only 18: “Not in the final moments When she was no longer listening to us, I was able to say ‘I love you, Mom! It did not come out. I rebelled against her agony, she did not admit her end “) to the loneliness of her three years in Russia or the multiple injuries that became a nightmare for her: “I played lame. I can not run (…) That’s how I am now, a fucking shit and they said that the problem, my problem with injuries, was psychological”.
“We have spent many hours talking, getting to know each other and not only taking a book but I have made a friend for life,” explained Julián Redondo, who thanked Amaya Valdemoro for “not leaving anything, for opening up to me, for want to capture her life as it is. “
Redondo explained that the idea of writing the book about the first Spanish basketball player to win an NBA ring and the only one to win it three times consecutively arose when the newspaper La Razón awarded him the Person of the Year award and met the writer Alfonso Ussía
“Not even in the best of my dreams could I expect a career ending as nice as the one I had, now I am with a book, and basketball has made me read a lot,” said Valdemoro, who recalled the good times of the prose of Alfonso Ussía and his Marqués de Sotoancho, one of his characters.
For its part, the head of the Espasa publishing house Lola Cruz thanked Amaya for “this book that will surprise many because she has undressed in many aspects of her life.” Along with her, Alfonso Ussía presented Amaya as an “extraordinary woman who is one of the great pride of Spanish sport. I love Amaya from before, a lot of knowing her, and to you, as to all of you who have raised Spanish basketball, we owe you dozens of hours of gratitude”
