Robert Franz Biography

Please note: the material was published more than eight years ago our boyfriend from Chicago 1 Short link once 7-year-old Robert Franz Pavlovich and his mother Lilia walked in a new structure and wandered into the gym “Stroitel”, where the freestyle wrestling training was held. Being physically strong from birth, the boy became interested in what was happening and without hesitation answered the proposal of coach Sergei Grigoryev to try himself on the carpet.

Thus began the sports career of a young man who had been making himself seriously now on another continent. When asked about how a family from Daugavpils to - GG. And it was the son who coped with this better and fastest. When we moved, there were no problems with him at all. The son never complains about anything, outwardly very calm and unshakable. As I always joking about him, "the character is persistent, Nordic." In case of lesions on the carpet on his face, you can notice only light annoyance.

None of us, however, know what is happening in his soul now, he graduates from Stevenson High School - a prestigious school included in the ten best in the country. For all the time we live here, I have never been at my parent meeting. Here this is: if they are not called, then there is no problem. This is precisely our case, ”says Robert Franz's mother. No indulgences of athletes recently a young man from Daugavpils became the hero of the article in the American newspaper Chicago Tribune.

The reason for the publication was his success in freestyle wrestling now on the American continent. As his parents admit, they did not suspect that this sport is so developed in the States. American football, baseball - anything comes to mind when talking about American sports traditions, but not a struggle. But it turned out that there is a huge competition. And the lesson with any sport requires considerable monetary investments from the pocket of the parents of the young athlete that gives hope.

During the school year, a fee is about dollars for six months for constant training. In the summer, in order not to lose sports, camps and classes with personal trainers. Three or four weeks of camps are the same - dollars. The cost of classes with a personal coach is looking for them by the athlete's parents or he himself - from $ 50 per hour. Do you want to take part in the tournament of your or neighboring state?

Register, pay for participation, buy a ticket, paying for a hotel and meals, and - fight! In a word, the system is completely opposite to the one that is practiced in Latvia, where municipal sports schools work, the activities of which are subsidized from the budget. On the other hand, in our country, an often too favorable attitude towards athletes. Due to participation in the competitions, they can be released from exams, and during the school year they close their eyes to missed classes and unwritten control.

In the USA, everything is different. Classes at school begin, after which - the second training or, if it goes to the weekend, the tournament. From the tournament on Thursday, he can return home in, and on Friday he will get up and go to training. Of the students of his school, about 70 people are engaged in struggle. Robert Franz - one of these the right to be a member of this team must be constantly proved by sports results.

But at the same time no concessions in study. If he does not study poorly, he will fly out of the team, and also cannot come to training until he “closes” the debts on studying - whatever sports achievements, ”says Lilia about the life of his son. Four names and two names “Robert is a fighter. He just works and works, does not throw anything halfway. And to everything else, he is also an excellent teammate, ”the Chicago Tribune quoted one of the first members of the Stevenson school.

To date, the highest achievement of Robert Franz Pavlovich is the eighth place in its weight category in the US National Tournament, which was held in Iowa in the year. And this is really a high achievement, given the size of the country and the number of athletes in it. The only fact that almost every week he participates in a certain struggle tournament speaks of the popularity of this sport in the States and gives an idea of ​​competition.

The fight is a very important component of the guy’s life, but he never sought to become a professional athlete. In our family there were also military men, but at the same time we never tuned our son to continue the family tradition. Robert Franz himself at three years old! His grandfather at the same age announced that he would be a pilot! Today is the guy 18, and he firmly bends his line, ”his parents say.

To collect all the documents necessary for this is a difficult matter, given that many of them are in Latvia. So, he must document every scar on his body: what, when, why! I had to request archival extracts from the medical facilities of Latvia and translate them. Another formality is connected with the Latvian manner of the recording of names and surnames.

In America, believe me, it’s hard to live with the name “Roberts” - for local residents it sounds like a surname as Julia Roberts.So in the American passport of the end of "S" in the name and surname of the guy today, finally, they are absent.

But when he came to his homeland to receive a new Latvian passport today's legislation allows a young man to have dual citizenship. So, as they joke in the family, now the guy has four names and two surnames. Childhood dream will come true in the United States in particular honor. Opportunities for the "construction" of a career are a mass. In the ranks of the military, Knowledge of foreign languages ​​Robert Franz speaks Russian, teaches German and, if necessary, can “pull up” Latvian and encouraged sports.

The young man is enthusiastic about world history, politics, and small arms have already received permission to carry weapons in the United States. In general, the guy from Daugavpils will soon open large horizons: he will be able to receive higher education and become a military engineer, lawyer, and a doctor - anyone. One thing is clear - his childhood dream will definitely come true.

Robert Franz Pavlovich, as mentioned above, is not one of those who retreat from the intended goal. When you communicate with his mother, I constantly want to ask only one question: “How did you manage to grow such a young son?