The importance of financial education during athletes' careers

After a year of financial education courses for athletes, we held a round table discussion with the aim of talking about the importance of financial education among active athletes with the help of CECA.

For this special MARCA podcast, we have a representative of the CSD (Diego Barrio, head of the High Level Athlete Care Service of the Spanish National Sports Council), together with CECA (Alberto AZA, spokesman) and two high-level athletes (Laura Méndez and Javier Rodríguez).  All moderated by Vicente Ortega, presenter of El Programa de Ortega on Radio MARCA.

We reviewed the federations associated with the project and the number of athletes who have accessed the course to date.

Participants

- Vicente Ortega, a journalist with Radio MARCA.

– Alberto Aza, CECA spokesperson.

- Diego Barrio Hernanz, Head of the High Level Athlete Care Service of the Spanish National Sports Council.

 - Laura Méndez, track and field athlete (34 years old). She is an athlete. Olympian in Tokyo and preparing for Paris 2024. He has a sports-related education.

- Javier Rodríguez, a basketball player (21 years old). He studies Business Administration at the University of Florida (Business and Management at Daytona State College) and plays for the basketball team.