Florencia Aguirre reveals suffering of the Chile canoeing Team in Brazil: coach lost his house

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He Team Chile canoe slalom is going through a delicate moment in Brazil. Even more so his head coach, Cassio Petryprecisely from the country of samba.

It turns out that a group of national representatives had moved to the Rio Grande do Sul region to train and compete. However, heavy rains and flooding changed the situation radically.

Currently, Chilean athletes are practically stranded, unable to return and with flights cancelled. As if that were not enough, coach Petry, from the town of Três Coroas, lost his house due to the climatic reasons already mentioned.

This was confirmed to Radio Bío Bío de Valdivia the selected Florence Aguirrewho at his young age (18) has become one of the greatest national promises in the discipline.

“The truth is that we were here with the canoe slalom team, training and almost living. Two of our friends live here, our national team coach is from the town of Três Coroas, and Due to the rains that occurred, the river rose a lot and both of their houses flooded. “They lost everything.”he expressed.

“So these days we have dedicated ourselves to helping them clean the house. We have only been in that now,” he added.

Aguirre also said that the closest airport (Porto Alegre) was closed until May 30. So the only thing they have left is to wait, or move to the nearest state, about 10 hours away (with the road closed). “They are charging us too much, 300 thousand pesos per person to take us,” he lamented.

“Fortunately we are all fine… here you can see bodies floating”

Florencia cries out to the team for help. They want to return to the country as soon as possible to continue with their routines.

“The efforts we have now are with the Boating Federation, but the answers are not very concrete for now. They are going to see if they can do a project to help us monetarily, but it’s like they’re looking at it, nothing concrete,” he said.

Finally, for the peace of mind of their families, the native of Río Bueno clarified that “fortunately no one on the team, nor the people whose house was flooded, suffered injuries. They were on the roof of the house all night until they could rescue them.”

“Luckily nothing happened to lives on the team. Here they have seen people flowering by the river, dead, because that is the situation here. Fortunately, nothing happened to any of us,” he concluded.