I come from Colombia, more specifically Bogotá, a city and a country involved in sports and passionate about the emotions that it brings to people. This passion combined with myinterest of writing and speaking made me become a journalist.
My career began back in 2011, I was about to graduate high school and was deciding what to do about my profession, I began thinking and remembering what I liked the most and it was football, reading and writing. My dad is the person who got me interested in many sports so I decided to study journalism and focus on sports as the branch of it. I studied for four years in the Central University and I graduated with the chance to be on TV reporting about football and different sports.
My entire journalist path, took me to many places and different institutions, from football and tv I went to radio and later to photography and digital media and federations in my country. Later I got the chance to be in DTM to keep pursuing my love for sports but from a different perspective, but my interest and undying loyalty for football always remained.
Around march 2023, the Colombian National Federation of Football announced two friendly games, lucky enough one of them was against Korea and It will be played in Ulsan, as soon as I heard the news I asked my colleagues back home to let me cover the match, as my first international match as a journalist.
I went with my Colombian press Futbolhoy.co as a photographer and I was in the field taking pictures, got the chance to see my national team facing Korea and Son. Also, I interviewed the players for both Colombia and Korea, I had the chance to report for television about the Korean Culture and sports.
As an extra achievement from that experience, the Colombian Embassy in Korea used my pictures with the Colombian fans, to showcase how they were supporting the national team.
At that time, I was also studying the masters and having the chance to go back to my roots as a journalist and at the same time preparing myself to be a sports administrator, was a one in a kind opportunity for me. Although I also think about a career shift, being a journalist is something that remains. In the future, I hope to continue being one, but also applying the knowledge I got from DTM, both as a reporter and a sports administrator.
By Laura María Hernández Cuervo (10th Batch)
