CAMAGÜEY.- The success of the Bulls in the current National Series has revived the audience of "Cándido González" Stadium. They turned the big concourses, to the cabins of radio and television, the national media returned, and in the low theater boxes, the movement of sports clubs reappears and becomes stronger. From these seats, according to the sportsmen, the biggest influence comes to them.

The fans not always are just and generally they demand too much, but in clubs area the air hardly ever blows against our baseball players.

A fast walk along the stalls that go from the area behind the home plate up to the left garden is enough to become convinced of that there inhabits the engine of the big multitude. New faces occupy the chairs near to the bank of the places under the flags of the University of Camagüey, Camagüey Team or Zoo.

Between this amalgam of club beginners mix unmistakable habitual fans. Always given to the mesh, just where the curve begins towards the left side, there occupy the metal stools a few ladies of nervous look and slippery smile: the members of the Club Inés Luaces, or The Mothers, as they are met in this world. In December, 2001, twelve mothers of out-standing athletes of the province decided to join to shape the sui generis group, which with the time other relatives joined.

Mercedes Luaces, mother of the volleyball player Yumilka Ruiz, was the president in the first years, when there was consolidated the spirit of a special team. Martha Sanamé gave birth to the Olympian champion Vicyohandri Odelín, but she never saw him throwing.“ I was very nervous. I had the habit of going out of the house to walk or sat down in a calm place, I only found out when the game had already ended. Sometimes, when he lost, I arrive home and the girls were already waiting for me to calm me down. For a long time, my house turned into the head office of the club and we still do things there”.

Enisia Luis, mother of immortal Miguel Caldés, feels like few ones the sense of her gathering. In spite of only remembering the support that she received from the partners in the difficult days of her loss and during all these years, her throat is oppressed and scarcely allows her to say “they are my family”. Among the big achievements, they always recall how “they extracted of the house” Inés Sánchez, mother of the martyr of the crime of Barbados that names the club.

The pain that she was feeling for the death of her small champion had embittered completely the life, but little by little she felt more accompanied.

They shared a lot of sorrow, but in their gatherings the biggest space is for the good moments. Whenever their children returned with medals of the competitions, the parties lasted days and the people joined us. In view of the fans perhaps their faces go unnoticed, but in these bellies grew up stars like Jeinkler Aguirre, Karel Aguilar, Yormani Socarrás, Leonel Moas or the boxer brothers Nápoles. If you look good, you can see them in "Cándido González", in Palace of the Sports or in track of "Rafael Fortún". They were and they are the emotional support of those who every day fill our souls with their sports deeds. At present the club has 23 members, and wants to grow more.

The president Mariela Díaz, daughter of Vicente Díaz, has inherited the sense of the founders: “ We do not try to turn into a multitude, in this group the important thing is to feel for the sportsmen and always to support us. The familiarity distinguishes us and many do not understand what we suffer when one of our boys is going to compete... it belongs to the ‘mothers‘”.

Translated by Linet Acuña Quilez