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Thus, the Lorca City Council joins the recognition granted by the Higher Sports Council, the Gold Medal of the Royal Order of Sports Merit that Encarna received yesterday. The mayor of Lorca, Diego José Mateos, has reported the proposal of the name of Encarna Hernández 'La Niña del Gancho' to a municipal sports facility. Mateos stressed that "we are very proud, for the city of Lorca the recognition given to Encarna Hernández, 'The girl on the hook', a well deserved Gold Medal from the Royal Order of Sports Merit is an honor". The Mayor has announced that "from the Lorca City Council we want to continue recognizing the work of this great woman and, therefore, we believe that from her hometown the best tribute we can pay her is to name one of the municipal sports facilities as Encarna Hernández 'La hook girl '". Mateos Molina recalled that "it is the only Lorca that holds this recognition that sports personalities of the caliber of Pau Gasol and Michael Robinson possess." The mayor of Lorca has detailed that "it was last winter when from the City Council of Lorca we asked the Higher Sports Council to award the Gold Medal to a pioneer woman in difficult times, where women had a secondary role in social life and sports, which managed to gain a foothold in women's basketball and opened the way to women's sports ". Diego José Mateos explained that "Encarna, who turned 103 this year, began to play basketball in 1931, at just 14 years old she was already the co-founder of a team, Atlas, and ended her professional sports career at 36 years old and after 9 years playing for Barcelona ".
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca
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