At only 21 years old, a very young Carlota Reig (Madrid, 1984) arrived in March 2006 at a new television channel that was to be born. At that time, she had no idea that she was going to be one of the essential faces of sports information and that she was going to interview the big stars of Spanish sport.
But until then, it took a lot of work, especially at the beginning, to get started: “All of us who entered were very young learning the trade, we were versatile, we took the camera as soon as the microphone, “he explains . Something that surprised colleagues from other media: “Suddenly you changed your position and they looked at you like: ‘Those of laSexta…'”.
17 years at laSexta have given us a lot to change, as can be seen in the video that heads these lines: “I remember that we were very young, we made plans, we went on a trip together, he there was a lot of connection,” he recalls. From now on, in addition to the sports news, which he tells us every evening after the weather forecast, Reig gives us some keys to the general news of the direct point of the sixth keyprogram presented by Rodrigo Blazquez.
Of course, she is not the only one to have seen the birth of this house; We have already met many other presenters in this series of articles who have experienced what it is like to start from scratch, as they told us. Inès G. Cheval, Diana Mata oh Cristina Villanueva, among many others. In sports, Carlota Reig also shared these first steps with Oscar Rincon there Marie-Martinez.
“We did it with a lot of enthusiasm and desire“, he points out, an experience he considers “lucky” to have had. my case, it’s a fact, I met my husband here”, she jokes in reference to the journalist Javier Gomezwith whom he also presented the sport in this house.
His first appearances on screen date back to 2008 during the program “Minuto y resultado”, presented by Patxi Alonso. And then, since 2009, viewers have been able to see it in the second edition of theSexta Deportes. He also went through programs such as Más Vale Tarde, to comment on the Death of Diego Armando Maradona or other relevant sporting matters.
with sports stars
And at a time when sport was the protagonist of the content of laSexta, and which also coincided with the golden age of Spanish sport, the “momentazos” were not long in coming. Among other things, in September 2009, she was sent as a special correspondent to cover the Poland Eurobasket and in 2011 that of Lithuania; there he could watch Spain win. He also attended the 2017 event in Turkey, although the team returned there with bronze.
Reig highlights how much he has liked to cover basketballeven more so when Atresmedia had the broadcast rights, which practically meant living with the athletes.
But he also had great moments with football, covering the final of Champions Leaguebetween real Madrid and Juventus, or even with tennis, where he was able to interview many times Raphael Nadal.
And that, although he was always clear that he wanted to be a journalist, he admits that at first he did not plan to dedicate himself to sport. In fact, taking this path should have come as no surprise: “I’ve always loved sports, there’s nothing like emotional power there transformer who has“, he points out, and “being able to work on something that has to get that emotion out of people can’t be compared to anything”.
An emotion that he fully captures: “I was in tears,” he admits, when he recounts that Nadal had won his 22nd Grand Slam.
So many emotions on the surface also have their difficult side, according to what the journalist tells us: “In tennis, I had to live from everything, they are very special athletesAnything you say to them before a match is going to affect them,” he says. Reig witnessed Nadal’s mania, or the annoyance of a tennis player who didn’t like a question posed by this reporter. .
Even so, it remains primarily with sport. Not even if we come up with a plan as fun as presenting a few bells, as we always do in this series: “I really like spending it with my family, but if they ever offer it to me, let it be with Matias Prats“. There is the idea.