Mexico City /
Saul Alvarez he was born into a humble home where he made his way based on effort and discipline, a lot inspired by his father who was engaged in the sale of pallets to Guadalajara, Jalisco. However, the cinnamon as a child he always knew of his temperament and managed to channel it in a good way when he started to train box, Discipline that has managed to dominate.
But before that, like any Mexican child, he tried his luck in football, We accept that his father sought to take him to the Atlas school so that sport would take shape more, situation than cinnamon he refused because it was clear to him that what he liked was to put on his gloves and get on the ring.
“I played football, in fact 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,” the tapatío said in an interview with Javier Alarcón, At the time he added that he does not have a favorite team.
“I don’t have a team of my own. I’m not much of a footballer, as long as the country support team plays, We are always supporting, but I am not about supporting a team or being attentive to football, ”he added.
His father didn’t like him boxing
the canelo Álvarez he explained that as a child he managed to get several rebukes from his father, because he did not agree that he should go to box training instead of helping with the work of the paddlers.
“When I started boxing my dad got angry because he wanted me to be here all day working, But I went out to train him, until there came a time when I told him ‘he’s going to get angry all my life because I’m not going to stop going to train, that’s what I love to do and so we’ll be all my life, either get used to it or get used to it, ” he finished.
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