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Africa-Press – Mozambique. <\/strong><\/span>Ver\u00f3nica Jos\u00e9, who is one of the world\u2019s top junior female competitors in the 1,500 metres, is among athletes in Mozambique expressing despair at the detention in Maputo of their Portuguese coach, Alberto L\u00e1rio, in Jos\u00e9\u2019s case just days before her debut at the world championship in Colombia.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt will be a despair for me to have to go to the world championship without my coach,\u201d the athlete told Lusa, after on Thursday holding her first training session in preparation for the world championships in Colombia without her coach, who was marking his 63rd birthday in a police cell in Maputo.<\/p>\n

L\u00e1rio, who has been a reference for young athletics in Mozambique, was detained on Tuesday afternoon, allegedly because of irregularities in his documentation.<\/p>\n

Mozambique\u2019s National Migration Service confirmed to Lusa the detention of the Portuguese athletics coach, claiming that he had \u201cfor a long time\u201d been in an illegal situation in the country, although it admitted that since he was born Mozambique \u2013 having left the country very young \u2013 he has had a nationality application pending for over six years.<\/p>\n

But according to Ver\u00f3nica Jos\u00e9, the coach\u2019s detention is the result of a \u201cconspiracy\u201d organised by federation officials who do not want to let him reap the fruits of the work that he has done in recent years with young athletes from various provinces, some of whom were welcomed in his own residence in Maputo, as was the case of Ver\u00f3nica.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe is a father to us,\u201d stresses the athlete, who even thought of giving up her world championship bid when she learnt that the coach had been detained following a complaint made by the president of the Mozambican Athletics Federation, Kamal Badr\u00fa.<\/p>\n

She recalls that she has had several opportunities to join Portuguese athletics clubs, but that L\u00e1rio always advised her to stay in Mozambique, as the country needs athletes.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have already received proposals from Sporting and Benfica, but my coach has always maintained the idea that Mozambique needs athletes,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor us, he represents two roles: the first as a father and the second as a coach,\u201d agreed Esm\u00e9nio Beir\u00e3o, another young athlete discovered by L\u00e1rio and who lives at the Portuguese coach\u2019s house in Maputo.<\/p>\n

L\u00e1rio\u2019s detention has caused outrage among athletics in Mozambique, with a march even being organised, to start on the track at the Continuadores Park in Maputo and end at the headquarters of the Mozambique Migration Service, where a news conference on the case is t be staged later on Thursday.<\/p>\n

L\u00e1rio, who was born in Mozambique and who has lived in the country for several years of late, oversaw Ver\u00f3nica Jos\u00e9\u2019s establishing herself in the world\u2019s top six juniors in the 1,500 metres, with the support of the Portuguese Association (AP) of Mozambique.<\/p>\n

The world championship in Cali, Colombia, scheduled for August 1st to 6th, will be Jos\u00e9\u2019s first major international 1,500 metres. Jos\u00e9 beat the time of 4.29 minutes in Braga, Portugal, and has been improving her performance since then.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Mozambique. 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