Mária Labayová

Unfortunately, they told me again at school, that she does sports with old women and that it has a bad effect on her. And because of this I had problems at school, and my father had to go there, I was already in my third year and he said if you don't want my daughter to do sports and represent your school, I'll take her from school. This is a problem as a future teacher, that she does sports and simply it gives her something to life. So it was already there. At a meeting after twenty years, the school principal and the class teacher apologized to me. She says if I knew it, it was such a time, and you know it, and so on. Well, that was after those years, after that normalization, those 68-72. It also affected our family, of course, brother-in-law, there was a problem, my brother had a problem graduating from college, just something happened in the family. A few times it happened to us, that we went on a tour and some player had to get off the bus and sent her home. Yes, because she had someone in the family, who is abroad. Questionnaires were signed to know if you have anyone abroad. It wasn't so bad, but at that time we realized that we had to be careful that we were in control, that strangers were always traveling with us, maybe they shaped my sports career, or I don't know what.

But after a year in the season, I couldn't play again. They stopped me from day to day, that you cannot play. For a whole year nobody knew me to say why. I went from the director of the company, from the coach, they didn't tell me, the functionaires didn't tell me. And after a year they called me and said to me, that you can permeate to Partizánske or Šaľa, because while this coach is here, you will not play. In the meantime, I also got a coaching license, I worked as an educator at the school and I was very satisfied. I had a dream and goal, it was just to go back and train the kids. I wanted to use all my experience and I still enjoyed working with people. It didn't happen to me either, it didn't get to me, until the next year, when this coach left Prešov. So I was called back and then I spent the last four or five years there and the era began, the best era of Prešov women's handball, in Prešov. At that time, everyone had to be employed and you played for ZVL Prešov, please translate this short cut, because today people don't have to know what it meant. It was a state-owned enterprise, and ZVL as a short cut meant a plant of roller bearings. But you called it a different way. Well, just like employees, we were joking, that it's a race of great love, well. So, it was probably a love of sports.