MEET THE CREATOR OF THE DUNI
My name is Lionel Garretón-Cofré and I am the creator of this sport that I have called DUNI. This name comes from the abbreviation of D Sport UNI Universal (in Spanish)
All my life I have been practicing Volleyball and Athletics (in their specialties Shot put and Discus Throw, and High Jump). And, above all, I was able to observe the violence that existed in sports.
I wanted to practice an attractive, wise, healthy sport, to be played as a team, full of very good physical activity, but without any violence. Muy bien. Very good.Such a sport DID NOT EXIST.
Therefore, in 1972-1973, in the Chilean Patent Office, I registered the COR model, which is the special ball the DUNI use to played.
"The DUNI is the free contribution of its creator, Mr. Lionel Garretón-Cofré, to the sports practiced by humanity."
LGC IN GRAPHIC MEDIA PROMOTING THE DUNI IN MEXICO
March 2003
DUNI exhibition in Tamatán Olympic Village, Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas, Mexico. One of the Mexican newspapers of Ciudad Victoria quotes:
... "Lionel Garretón Cofré, born in Chile,resident in Argentina for many years, has been touring large cities in Mexico. He was recently in Tampico, on Monday he visited Ciudad Victoria and this week he will offer an exhibition and press conference in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon.
Lionel in his youth practiced volleyball and athletics, among other sports, but he was interested in a new sporting discipline where there was not so much violence, so much physical friction, much less aggression"...
From the hand of its creator, Mr. Lionel Garretón Cofré; DUNI arrives in Mexico!!!
The newspaper: "El Sol de Tampico", publishes a note presenting the DUNI in the UNIDEP: Sports Unit of that city.
“At the presentation of this new sport, which by the way is Tampico where it begins its promotion in Mexico, were among others , Ing. José Elías Sosa Clemente, director of Sports of the Tampico City Council and the Chilean-Argentine Lionel Garretón Cofré, who is the creator of this discipline”….
Presentation of DUNI in Olympic Village of Tamatán, Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas, Mexico.
En la foto: Lionel Garretón Cofré, (creador del DUNI), along with Pablo Goicoechea, one of the DUNI instructors in Mexico.
“The 1st Municipal DUNI Tournament is inaugurated in Mexico!!!”
The DUNI is considered in Mexico as: "The Sport of the future". In the Manuel Raga Navarro Gymnasium, 12 teams from different educational institutions that participated in the “1st Municipal DUNI Tournament” took the roll call.
En el acto estuvieron presentes: El Sr. Lionel Garretón Cofré, (creador del DUNI), Sergio Manoutou Villareal, Gil Aguilar, Enrique de la Garza Ferrer, Consuelo Torre Cantú, (presidenta de la Liga Municipal de DUNI).
In the photo:
Mr. Lionel Garretón Cofré (creator of the DUNI), together with Consuelo Torre Cantú and the municipal authorities of Ciudad Victoria.
