We spoke to Francisco Coro Izquierdo, elected on Saturday President of the Andalusian Vela Federation after the Assembly constituted for this purpose at the Specialized Centre for Sports Tecnification of Vela Bahia de Cadiz, headquarters of the Andalusian Vela Federation in El Puerto de Santa María. Coro replaces the onubense Eduardo Zalvide Alvarez- Rementeria, president of the Andalusian in the last 12 years. Paco Coro, a 54-year-old Jerezano, decorated with the Golden Insignia of the Andalusian Federation of Sailing in 2015, comes to the presidency endorsed by a long career in which he has held important positions in the world of Sailing. He was president of the association of sports boat patterns in the province of Cadiz and advisor to the APA, Andalusian secretary and national of the Optimist class, director of the Children's Sailing Committee of the RFEV, president of AECIO and president of the IODA. He is currently a manager of several hotels in the city of Jerez de la Frontera, a work which he will now share with the office of president of the FAV for an initial period of four years.

- When and why do you decide to introduce yourself, and what has been the process until you get here?
I decide to introduce myself to the presidency of the FAV because I believe that after years of work in the sailing world the time had come to fight for the things of my land and to turn all the experience accumulated in it. Because of all these years of walking in this world, my four-year-old campaign in Spanish and that I had no need to make myself known because the Andalusian candle had supported me in my other adventures, when I decided to present myself to these elections I find unconditional support practically from all corners of Andalusia, some political tactics in the development of them led me here with a relative ease.

- Does this mean you give up the presidency of the RFEV?
If, of course, it is these moments that I give up the presidency of the RFEV, not to be in a privileged place, but in this case not only to work for and for the Spanish candle, but to defend the interests of our own and our clubs and sportsmen.

- What are your short, medium and long-term objectives?
For now and because I haven't had a chance to be on the previous board of directors, the first thing is to bury me in papers and documents to catch up and get the pulse to the federation as soon as possible. That's short-term. In the medium term to act accordingly with what I am meeting, as I said in my presentation, what works is to let it be and work on what does not go so well.

In the long term, to make it economically healthy, to make our athletes and associates feel at home, to succeed and be included in the Olympic teams, not to mention that there are more people who sail for sport or pleasure. In short, to return the brightness that our sailing federation once had.

- You think there's a lot to change in the FAV?
I think that the pyramid scheme is out of date, I want to form a scheme that is not only more functional and effective at the same time as agile, but also that all the classes and stages that make up the federation are represented, that everything that happens or is longed for will quickly reach the directive and in particular me. I consider myself a person who can hear and reason.

- How do you value the situation of the Olympic candle? Do you think the Andalusian can contribute something to the new Olympic cycle?
The Olympic candle is suffering the worst moment almost in its history and as I will always be clear speaking, for years the managers have been engaged in doing a lot of personal policy and little sports policy, the opposite is right and not taken care of, a chain without links is not a chain, as a magnificent Olympic without young substitutes in the long run remains a vacuum that is very difficult to fill. Andalusia by tradition and because it has magnificent sportsmen has always contributed a lot to the Olympic teams and this must continue to be the case, there is a technification plan that works and that could go better if we have better funding, work for and for it will be basic.

- Finally, what will be your road map?
As I said at the beginning, the first thing is to get a pulse, that there's nothing I don't know and to be acting on, although I like to delegate to people of trust, at the same time I also like to monitor everything, that someone asks me something and I don't know how to answer it is something that doesn't go with me. Within this relationship of trust with my collaborators, what I value most is fidelity, if someone tries to make me the "bed" will stop being within that circle. That in terms of the staff of the federation and my political pyramid I intend to create, fidelity and trust are magic words without which you cannot work peacefully, that all flow easily. It's not that hard to get it with respect. Once the basics have learned it, I believe it is essential and urgent to seek external funding from the private world, many few will do a lot. Within this policy of sponsors are two pillars that I consider to be fundamental to achieving a right objective and these are public and institutional relations and communication (media). If we get a good engraving set perfectly, these pillars will give way to the bridge we want to have.

There's a lot of work ahead of me and I have a good team, so from now on, I'm getting to work. Who said fear.