Los jugadores de su Campus ponen en un aprieto a José Manuel Calderón.

A lo largo de su carrera, José Manuel Calderón ha lidiado con periodistas de todo tipo y nacionalidad, pero nunca con unos tan difíciles como los chicos y chicas de ocho a 18 años de su Campus.

Y es que los chavales del III Campus Calderón - Marca Extremadura sometieron al base de los Toronto Raptors a todo tipo de preguntas, algunas de ellas verdaderamente difíciles de contestar.

Calde tuvo que decir por primera vez 'no' a un chaval en estos días que lleva en el Campus. Y fue a una chica que, al terminar su pregunta, le pidió "dos besos y tu número de teléfono". El jugador se echó a reír: "Los dos besos vale, pero me temo que lo del teléfono no va a poder ser", señaló.

Otro de los chicos, un clásico del Campus, le hizo una pregunta José se esperaba. "Calde, que qué me vas a dar este año por los chorizos que te he traído", le dijo riendo. Y José, que le recordó que ya el año pasado le regaló unas zapatillas firmadas, le prometió una camiseta. "Pero el año que viene no vengáis todos con chorizos, que no va a haber camisetas para todos", bromeó el jugador.

The Kids attending the III José Manuel Calderón Camp - Marca Extremadura were able to be present at one of the most extensive interviews that the NBA star Chris Bosh has probably ever done in his life. With Jose Manuel Calderon as a translator, the kids were asking all kinds of question for about half an hour.

The kids were not afraid of asking the Dallas player, and they wanted to know many peculiar facts, like his height at their age. One of them ask him in what team he would like to play, and although Bosh did not want create controversy and said the Raptors, one of the kids screamed: "Chris! Sign with Caceres!" and Bosh neither confirmed nor denied.

Moreover, Calderon revealed a curious story. The famous dunk of Rudy Fernandez over Dwight Howard in the Olympic final had some story in the locker-room of the Raptors. Calde brought a photo of the dunk to the Canadian locker-room and Bosh sent it to Howard, one of his good friends, by scanned email to make fun of him for a while. "We were focused, but when he made the dunk, we were looking at each other in silence" said the American player.

From morning to night, the Toronto Raptors player did not stop being involved with the kids in the Third José Manuel Calderón Campus - Marca Extremadura. In a joint press conference together with the Spaniard and his companion in the Raptors, the American said "Getting to know Extremadura has allowed me to understand why Calde is how he is. The people are lovely and very friendly." The two maintain a close friendship that led Bosh to Caceres.

Afterwards, Bosh patiently signed photographs for the dozens of Campus attendees that approached him, always with a smile and not a single wrong gesture.

In the afternoon, together with José Manuel, he visited the stadiums V Centenario and Multiusos in Caceres, where the boys of the Campus asked about the size of his feet to the number of hours he trained when he was the age of the boys. Although all advised him to sign the Lakers, Bosh was faithful to the Raptors.

The Extremaduran Jose Manuel Calderon presented his Camp Marca Extremadura in the auditorium of the Laboral University, where more than 300 children will be accommodated during the week.

In the event, presented by José María Panadero, a former Caceres 2016 player, who is the coordinator of the Campus, the First Vice President and spokesperson of the Extremaduran Commonwealth, Dolores Pallero, and the counselor for Youth and Sports, Carlos Javier Rodriguez, were together with Jose during the presentation.

The campus, which also has the attendance of ACB GBC Bruesa's player David Doblas GBC ACB and the power forward of the Toronto Raptors' Chris Bosh, celebrates his third edition with a great assistance record. In just two weeks, all the registrations were exhausted.

Calderon, as welcoming as always, requested to the kids to ask all the questions that they could think of, and he was very close to the kids. "Here I am for one week for whatever you need. We have these days to enjoy together," he said.