00:02We've been taught and raised to believe that sight is everything. And now, as you tell me that
00:07come on
00:07Run, score goals. They said, no, I have to go see it because I couldn't believe it.
00:21I've been blind since I was 7. I'm a national team player for blind futsal.
00:27Punomarca, Colombia. I was going to watch the rehearsals at the Caetes Military School here in Colombia.
00:34In the Río Negro neighborhood of Bogotá, a grenade was seen and it exploded, it ripped open my stomach and...
00:41let
00:41He went blind from that moment on. When he went blind, he would throw flattened cans into a plastic ball.
00:47so that it would zone. Years later we began to hold the first championships. After the championships
00:54They began playing in national championships with a sound ball.
01:12Towards the end of the 80s, my dad told us that what is now known as the
01:19International Paralympic Committee, two Europeans, and were surprised that the blind played with
01:25The feet. Then that's when my dad got another idea. He said, I'm going to create my
01:33own
01:33I'm going to trademark it and patent it. And it's going to be with my initials. Today he's called Lucas.
01:39Here, that
01:39It means Luis Castañeda Ten. So it no longer has bells, but six internal sound chambers,
01:46It's a synthetic leather, and since this one is perfectly spherical, it doesn't change anything.
01:53the trajectory of the ball. And well, we are proud that we no longer only sell it today, but also
02:01other
02:01cities, but also to other countries.
02:18I came to sound football about three months, two, three months after I had lost my sight.
02:23To be honest, I found it very curious because at that time I had residual vision and I said,
02:29I mean, I can barely walk because I keep tripping over everything, I can't see the ramps. And now
02:34Like you say, we're going to run, to score goals. He says, no, I have to go see him because no
02:39I believed it.
02:40So I come from a upbringing that's a bit kind of sexist, where football isn't for women.
02:45Women. That day I stepped onto the court, felt the ball, ran, it was like a feeling of freedom. And I stayed.
02:53there
02:53I fell in love with the sound of football. I mean, I fell in love with it from that first encounter, and since then, well, five years have passed.
02:59years.
03:04Sound football is the only mixed-gender Paralympic sport. What do I mean by that? It combines
03:12People with disabilities and able-bodied people. Here we play five-a-side football. So
03:19Almost all the rules of five-a-side football apply. There are a few minor differences, such as between...
03:24They say we divide the court into three sections. There's the defensive section, the midfield section, and the...
03:29offensive third. In each of these thirds, there is a person in charge of giving instructions. In the
03:35The third attacking player, the one giving the directions, is the guide. The guide is a visual person who stands...
03:41Behind the goalkeeper is the manager, who positions himself in the middle third, outside the box.
03:46He's on the field and he's in charge of the players in the midfield. Sometimes forwards,
03:51Sometimes defenders, because it's an area where we all rotate. And then specifically in the
03:56In the defensive third, the goalkeeper is responsible for guiding the attack. The goalkeeper in blind five-a-side football.
04:04He doesn't just cover for defenders. He practically has to narrate and guide his teammates. And the most...
04:10It's important that all those who guide us on the field guide us, but depending
04:16Our laterality, not theirs. That is, if I'm facing the guide or the goalkeeper,
04:23My right hand won't be the same as his. So they need to be aware of that because that
04:27This can be confusing. We've been taught and raised to believe that sight is everything. And when
04:32I get there and I see that they can run, that they do a thousand things, that they have professions, that they come and go.
04:37Alone, I was like, wow. Talking to them, talking to Joel's teammates with the national team
04:46Cundinamarca, where they train, was more of an opportunity to get there.
04:55They were like a lightbulb had been lifted from my eyes. He's been a very independent child since he was little.
05:02But the fact of practicing with the ball then helped him loosen up more.
05:10It completely changed my vision of the future, of what I wanted to do, and it also helps me to
05:16my son
05:16He doesn't see my disability as something bad. When he talks about my disability, he doesn't say it as if it's...
05:21that
05:21Oh, my poor little mom. It's not that my mom is blind and she plays soccer and she writes books and
05:26She does it and tells him
05:27With that pride. So I feel that football caused all that in my life and didn't let me give up.
05:33which is the most important thing.
05:50Football is my life, my passion, that's why I haven't given it up and I continue to play it and I plan to continue.
05:58as much as I can.
05:59It's a memory that remains intact; he literally feels his presence with us in everything, in training,
06:06In the exhibitions, in the outings we make, their customs and their legacy always remain.
06:13The fact that I was from Bogotá and, above all, blind, I feel that it drives what I am now.
06:19We set our own limits. Until you experience it, you don't truly know what it's like to live with a disability.
06:32It's not a limit either.
06:35He said, "I will die the day my last ball is kicked in the world."
06:50Thank you!
06:51Thank you!
06:51Thank you!
06:52Thank you!
06:52Thank you!
06:53Thank you!
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