Paco Cobas: "I spent five years on my honeymoon in Tenerife"
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ANGEL MANSODirector of the Military Museum and president of the Spanish Orienteering Federation, the colonel born in Ferrol is in love with the quality of life in A Coruña
Nov 06, 2019 . Updated at 11:12 h.WhatsappMailFacebookTwitterComment ·He has been directing the Military Museum for four and a half years. "I have months left. In 2015 I applied for the vacancy that was offered to reserve staff. Time passed and now I'm on secondment. I am already looking for my successor and he will appear, "says Francisco Gómez Cobas, Paco Cobas for the whole world. "My father, who has already passed away, was not offended," says the fourth director in the museum's history with a smile. «The previous ones did a great job and left it phenomenal. I dedicated myself more to organizing activities such as conferences, exhibitions, book launches... Every year we receive an average of 30,000 visitors. Since the inauguration in 1992, 667,000 people have passed through, which is an important figure. A third are from abroad, both Spanish and foreign. Every time there is an ocean liner docked, the museum fills up. Most people from A Coruña know where it is, but they never went in, and it's a shame," reflects Colonel Cobas.
Ferrolano in A Coruña
In addition to being the head of the museum, he is the Rubiales of orientation. Series. «I think there are some 49 federations, including those that are and are not Olympic sports, and for a few months I have been the president of the Spanish Orienteering Federation. I like it, but, ugh, it's a lot of work and it forces me to travel a lot, ”says this man who you give a compass to and he doesn't get lost. «With a compass and without a map I do nothing. I have been practicing this sport all my life. Since 1981 specifically. It is about leaving one point and reaching another in the shortest possible time, passing through various checkpoints. There are several modalities, walking, cycling, trail-on... I still do something but 20 years ago I had surgery on my meniscus and they already told me that over the years it would bother me. And that's how it is," says this Ferrol man who is in love with his land and the quality of life in A Coruña. Although his parents were not in the military, his grandparents, cousins, and brother were. "Everyone in the navy except me. I am the khaki sheep of the family”, says this artilleryman with a vocation who was trained at the General Basic Academy of Non-commissioned Officers in Lleida, smiling. With a martial step, he recounts his military life. One year in Segovia and another in Cádiz to become a sergeant with a first posting at the Zalaeta barracks on Calle Hospital. Six years later he trained in Madrid and Segovia and was promoted to Lieutenant. «I left the academy and got married. I spent five years on my honeymoon in Tenerife, where I had been assigned”, he recalls with a happy face. He was captain and commander until reaching Colonel. "For me it is a milestone to have come this far coming from the basic scale," he highlights.
Calluses and Football
She is 62 years old and has two daughters, ages 30 and 28, one an English teacher and another who is in opposition to the National Police. Paco has spent years studying History and Art at UNED and before that he studied Portuguese for three years at the Language School. "Three things that I really like are in the museum, history, the military and A Coruña," he highlights. He declares himself methodical and disorderly and, like a good soldier, "to think before executing." He never participated in missions, but he signed up for some as a volunteer, although he was not called. He lives in A Zapateira, but in a few years "I see myself walking around the city." Of course you will not have orientation problems. "There are people who have innate conditions, but they train and learn." He says that the Military Museum “is too small. We cannot expose everything we have. We have large flags that it is impossible for us to show”, analyzes this affable colonel, in love with history and a good cover of tripe. "I am very much from Deportivo and I suffer," confesses Paco, who likes to travel with the woman with whom he spent five years on his honeymoon.
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