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The Ballon d’Or won by Alexia Putellas last Monday confirms a dynamic: Spanish women’s football is sweet. Barcelona, the team where the best footballer of the year plays, is the current champion of the Champions League and its squad aims to mark an era; the level of Primera Iberdrola, despite the fact that its professionalization is still being pursued, is one of the highest on the continent; and the Spanish team has not lost a match for more than a year and is already a clear candidate to lift a prestigious title. However, this sport historically linked to man, suffered too much turbulence to start and become popular among the female sex within our borders.
Going back to his
first steps, at the beginning of the last century there were women who dressed in shorts and played soccer. But, from the first moment, contempt and mockery from the opposite gender they were habitual tonic. The girl who practiced this old art, regardless of her ability, was associated with certain connotations that do not deserve to be repeated in this space. Likewise, there were some brave ones who, through thick and thin, fought for their dream. Consequently, after a few decades in ostracism, in 1970 women’s football held its first media match. The Boetticher soccer field faced two pioneers, Sizam Paloma de Madrid and Mercacredit (later renamed Olympic Villaverde) before 8,000 souls who packed the place. By the way, Sizam won 5-1. Thus, due to a growing demand and through small but firm steps like the previous one, the Spanish Federation made women’s football official in 1983, starting a current that is already unstoppable today.
The selection, a mirror of the good moment
In February 1971, La Condomina de Murcia witnessed the first game of the Spanish team (3-3 against Portugal). However, this encounter it was not considered official Because women’s football was not yet recognized in our country and, obviously, the formal debut had to wait until 1983. Since then, it has participated in two World Cups (the last two) and three European Cups, signing its best role in 1997 reaching the semifinals.
Today their outlook is totally different and the picture of Jorge Vilda It is aspiring to everything, its numbers confirm it: it has not lost and without conceding a goal since March 8, 2020, when it was beaten 1-0 by the United States, the world champion, and they add up to the chilling figure of 88 points in favor. Such statistics mean that the team has qualified for the Euro in England next year and is one step away from confirming its participation in the World Cup in Australia and New Zealand in 2023.
Alexia putellas, the player with the most appearances for the Spanish national team (93), and Jenny Beautiful They lead a golden generation that dreams of doing something great. In the meantime, and luckily, thanks to women like them, every day that passes more girls decide to become passionate about soccer.
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