Football

I love football, both practicing and watching it.

My football team is the one of my city: Málaga CF. I have been coming to La Rosaleda stadium since I was a child and I am the season-ticket holder number 2698. I attended in Oporto, in 2003, to the last match played by Málaga in an european competition. The recent arrival of Sheikh Al-Thani to the club makes us dream of an early return to Europe.

Regarding practicing it, I enjoy playing indoor football and, since 2003, I play weekly in an amateur league born in an online Málaga CF forum. Right now, I belong to the Cazorla Futsal team, formerly named Apoño Futsal, which last year lost the first position in the last match, but this season we aspire to do it better.

Running

If memory serves me, I was only 10 years old when I first run in a race, the traditional 10km popular race of my city. A year later, I joined the athletics club of my school and I finished 5th in the city games for the 1500 metres mode. After that, I have been running in the annual 10km popular race "Ciudad de Málaga" and in another one shorter called "San Silvestre de la Salud".

It wasn't until late 2010 when I decided to train for longer distances. I trained really hard and I run my first half marathon (21.097km) in March 2011 with a time of 1:44:03. Currently, my best mark is 1:33:31, got in November 2011.

My next big aim is to become a finisher of a full marathon: 42.195km. Hopefully, it will be soon: on February 2012.

Reading

When I have some quiet time and I want to relax, mostly before going to sleep, I usually take a book and I go deep into another world. I like all kind of fiction (crime, adventure, fantasy, thrillers...) but I generally prefer the contemporary one.

My favourite writer, recently discovered, is Haruki Murakami, a Japanese who writes surreal novels that get me hooked a lot. I strongly encourage you to read some of his works if you haven't done yet.

Regarding to my favourite books, I would mention Murakami's "Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World" (El fin del mundo y un despiadado país de las maravillas), Cornelia Funke's "Inkheart" (Corazón de Tinta) and Saramago's "Blindness" (Ensayo sobre la ceguera).

Puzzles

I like brain-teaser. I enjoy solving classical jigsaw puzzles or Rubik's cubes but also other kind of puzzles like irregular cubes or wire puzzles. I like that kind of challenges.

Until now, the biggest jigsaw puzzle I've made had 3000 pieces. The same amount of pieces that has the one I like the most: the Picasso's Guernika.

Films

The big screen is another of my hobbies. I don't mind the gender of the movie if it is a good movie. Even more, I usually enjoy independent films if its story and the way it is told are good.

I am a regular assistant to Fancine, a fantastic film festival made in Málaga. I try to watch all the movies I can because most of them are really interesting and I like to be member of the popular jury.

It's difficult to choose just one film as my favourite. I liked very much "The Matrix" but I would also highlight some other titles like "The Nightmare Before Christmas", "The Pianist" or "Celda 211". And I particularly love the style of Tim Burton.

Traveling

You can see there are too many countries left in my visited countries map... and I would like to fill it up :)