With a character forged in the heat of the competition, Mario Álvarez Soto now had the opportunity to give back as president part of what Club Deportivo Naco gave him to become the main player in the region.
The award-winning tennis player, with a record of service that includes nine medals in the Central American and Caribbean Games, including seven gold ones, formed an unbeatable trilogy with Juan Vila and Raymundo Fermín called “Los Chinos del Caribe”.
“I am a competitor. In all the areas in which I have worked, what I do is compete with myself to be better every day”, highlights Álvarez Soto, who has just made another important commitment.
This is a new challenge that he has sought in this stage of his managerial life, convinced that as president, together with the members of the Board of Directors that accompanies him, actions will be implemented that will benefit an institution of which he has been a member since has use of reason.
“We feel indebted to the club,” he confesses.
He made a kind of “center” in order to acquire the necessary experience to straighten out many of the things that could not be done in the past. He twice he was secretary and then vice president.
“Our relationship with the club dates back to childhood, when we did our first steps in practically all sports,” recalls the one who years later would become the best tennis player in the region.
It was in 1973, when he was 13 years old, when he focused on the so-called ping pong. As happens when you have secret love, Mario needed some allies who ended up becoming an accomplice in the idyllic relationship that he began in full youth.
“The club was the one who welcomed me to develop my sports career. The time didn’t matter. Sometimes the managers, hidden, would leave me the key and we would close the doors of the table tennis room and leave it stored in the place they told us”, he relates.
Priorities
Álvarez Soto and the team that accompanies him have begun to work on what was one of the main campaign promises made to the club’s members in the sense of modifying the statutes to be consistent with the constitution of the Republic.
Among the provisions that have the days numbered in the statutes are indefinite reelection, as well as the extraordinary powers that the president possesses.
“That can not be. Constitutional precepts are also being violated when it is established that to opt for the presidency one must have been a member for 30 years, ”he emphasizes.
Ending this presidential regime “is exactly what we want to teach our membership, the members of the board of directors and society. Decisions can be made by consensus for the benefit of the majority”.
“This board of directors has many specific goals. To begin with, all decisions will be made by the Board of Directors, a collegiate administration, here there has to be governance, ”he highlights.
As an example, Mario gives the turn to Vice Treasurer Luis Brea, who pointed out that they will begin a crusade so that former basketball player Winston Royal and swimming coach Mrs. Maritza Creus achieve immortality in the Dominican Sports Hall of Fame.
“We want two great athletes that we have our own to be considered immortal at the national level,” he declares about these two illustrious members of the club.
“We are going to make a crusade so that Winston Royal and Mrs. Maritza Creus have a niche in the Hall of Fame,” he anticipates.
Winston, who debuted with the club in 1976 in the district basketball, has been one of the best point guards the country has produced, while Doña Maritza has a great legacy in swimming.