Cuban soccer player Yeniseidis Soto set a new Guinness record for ball control with the head.
Soto controlled the ball for 2 hours, 12 minutes and 32 seconds at the Jose Antonio Echevarria Sport Recreation Center in Havana.
"I trained very hard. I did a lot of exercise. I would run for two hours everyday. And I also devoted a lot of time to making repetitions, hitting the ball with my head," she said.
She added that although she felt happy, the result did not fully satisfied her because she had trained to be on control of the ball for three hours, but neither indoors nor in a room so hot.
"I had trained only outdoors. That is why I felt dizzy from the very beginning of the test. The contrast of the round ball and the ceiling made me feel sick," she said.
She emphasised that the importance of this experience relies on the fact that she is the first woman to set this kind of world record. Her performance was witnessed by Cuban FIFA international judges Irazema Aguilera and Elizabeth Cuff.
