Valentina Kogan, with type 1 diabetes from the age of 10 will be one of the protagonists of the first edition of the Experience Day Diabetes in Argentina, which will take place on November 10 in San Luis.
Since 18 Valentina Kogan was part of the Argentine Handball National Team.In the beginning as a athlete, he feared sharing his status as a person with diabetes with his coach and colleagues for fear of being played against him when integrating a list.
With the passage of time, gaining security and knowledge of itself, he decided to handle himself naturally, communicating and visualizing his condition.
Valentina Kogan played professionally in Spain and participated in 6 World Cups, 4 Pan American Games and Olympic Games among other important tournaments.
Thus, together with his passion for sport, he became a flag bearer of the importance of sports for people with diabetes and a reference when he came to showing that "with diabetes you can."
In 2016 after competing at the 2016 River Olympic Games, he retired from the Argentine Handball team.He is currently the executive director of the runner club and has been carried out from 2012 to Team D, the first free training group exclusively for people with diabetes.
All your experience will be narrated in the first person in the first Experience Day diabetes that will take place in Argentine lands and for which the first tickets are already on sale.You can book your town in this link Link And come to meet Valentina Kogan and her Olympic history of overcoming.
The place chosen for the first edition of Diabetes Experience Day Argentina has been San Luis, a beautiful city in the center of Argentina and headquarters of the Argentine Diabetes Foundation.And more specifically the auditorium of the National University of San Luis, a few minutes from the city center.
The Experience Day Argentina diabetes will start on Saturday, November 10 at 4:00 p.m. with the only and healthy objective of continuing to give voice to diabetes, wherever we are.In fact, there is a first program of presentations and talks in which once again the prominence of the patient with diabetes is absolute.Here you can consult the speakers and their stories Link