Former soccer player Julio Salinas (62 years old) who has gone through several clubs such as Athletic Bilbao, FC Barcelona and the Spanish team participated in a debate organized by La Caixa along with the Journalist Olga Viza. Despite having retired 25 years ago, it retains the same vitality and sense of humor as when it filled stadiums, something that led him to joke about the retirement age and the concept that society usually has of pensioners. “For me, retirement does not exist, it seems that from retirement you have to take care of the grandchildren and go to the Imserso trips.”
But he clarifies that at the moment, surpassed 60s, it is when he feels best, that his quality of life has increased. “It’s when I live best, my head is completely liberated to enjoy things and value them, which is important,” he said in the debate. “Age does not have to be an impediment.”
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Precisely that vitality is the one that leads him to encourage people who are spending potholes in their personal or professional life. “We have fallen everyone, because in the end, it is something that can happen to you in many ways. But from each of these falls you have to know how to touch earth, smell where you have fallen, feel it and go out with much more strength and, of course, with confidence in yourself.”
“You have to laugh at oneself”
The athlete, who maintains a magnificent state of form, recognizes that he has learned from the failures and that at 62 he is very strong mentally. “You have to laugh at oneself,” he said highlighting the importance of mental health since “life only lives once.”
The talk, which was held in the Agora room of the Caixa branch in Carlos III brought together more than 200 people and was moderated by Olga Viza who was interested in how the pressure is carried when it is at the highest level of Spanish football. “The pressure is for those who have no job,” he said.
Salinas encouraged retirees to get challenges daily
Julio Salinas was clear with the talk attendees, who were mostly retirees, as publishes Diario de Navarra. He invited them to propose challenges daily and explained that he uploaded to Manaslu two years ago, which is the eighth mountain of the world. “We did not upload it whole, logically, but the challenge was there.”
“Age does not have to be any impediment,” he explained to the attendees. “If I compare myself with a tree, I’m young,” he joked.