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Saul Alvarez He was born in a humble home, where he made his way through hard work and discipline inspired by his father which was dedicated to the sale of pallets in Guadalajara, Jalisco. But Canelo Ever since he was a child, he has always known about his temper and managed to channel him in a good way when he started. train box, a discipline he mastered.
But before that, like any Mexican child, he tried his luck in football, where you accept that his father wanted to take him to Atlas school so that the sport takes more shape, a situation that Canelo He turned her down because it was clear that what she liked was putting on her gloves and entering the ring.
“He played football, actually as a child they wanted to take me to the basic forces of the Atlas, but I already knew boxing at the time, I said, “I want to be a fighter, I don’t want to be a footballer“Sometimes I just played (football) to fight myself,” the Guadalajara man said in an interview Javier Alarcon, adding at the same time that he does not have a favorite team.
“I don’t have a team of my own to go to. I am not a football fan, whenever I play the national team I support the countryWe always support, but I don’t support a team or I watch football “, he added.
His father didn’t like boxing
Canelo Alvarez He explained that as a child, he managed to get more out of his father’s anger, because he did not agree that he should go boxing instead of helping him with the work of the paddles.
“When I started boxing, my dad got annoyed because he wanted me to be there all day working, but I used to go out to train, until a moment came when I told him “he will be upset all my life because I will not stop going to training, that’s how I like to do and that’s what we do” We will be all our lives ours, you either get used to it or you get used to it “, he concluded.
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