Luck had smiled on Dani Bárez again. After having been out of competition for more than a year and undergoing head surgery due to an assault, he returned to the UFC octagon last September, where he obtained his first victory in the American league. All this redemption had been accompanied by the best news possible: he was going to be a father for the first time.
During these weeks, the Valencian fighter was enjoying his family, thinking about his fatherhood, while continuing to train while waiting for a new call from the UFC to continue his rise within the largest mixed martial arts company. But life hit hard again last week. Their land, their beloved Valencian Community, suffered the worst storm in recorded history, devastating dozens of towns and taking hundreds of lives with it.
Once the worst floods had passed, the Valencian people took to the streets, with shovels, brushes or whatever material they had at their disposal, to try to return the most affected towns to normality, if that were possible one day. . Dani Bárez was not going to fail. «I decided to go help as soon as I could because there was a catastrophe in Valencia and many people are having a very bad time, many people have lost loved ones. I saw myself under the moral obligation to lend a helping hand.“I am a person with empathy and I put myself in the shoes of others and what less, I simply went to help as one more,” he says in conversation with ABC.
Armed with his brush and buckets to collect the mud, Dani Bárez went to Catarroja, because another fighter, a friend of his, had warned him that no type of help was arriving there. The peasantry was dantesque. Of terror. «The photos or videos have nothing to do with the situation there. When you arrive at the towns it is something desolate, the landscapes are full of overturned cars, everything destroyed… and you realize that inside each vehicle was a person who could have died or been missing or with the best luck in the world “He has been saved, but it is very sad,” says the UFC fighter.
As the days go by, the situation is, very little by little, improving, but the human losses will be irreparable and the material damage will be too great. Some have lost everything. And only with the help of the Spanish people are they making small progress. «The truth is that, being Valencian, I thank all the people for lending a hand to the families and citizens affected. I think that, thanks to everyone in the union we have had, We are being able to help these poor people in the enormous misfortune they have.», points out the Spanish fighter.
The situation, of course, continues to be dramatic, and there are many days left before a real assessment can be made of the most serious natural catastrophe that has hit Spain in many years, but if the Spanish fighter makes one thing clear, it is that “the “Unity is strength.”
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