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91,553 voices demonstrated that soccer is female and ‘La Moto’ Mariano achieved gold

Those who for years persecuted the players with the following message: “Who is interested in women’s football?”, remained silent before the thunderous response of the 91,553 people who gathered on March 30 at the Camp Nou to witness the ‘Clásico’ of the Champions League quarterfinals between FC Barcelona and Real Madrid. world record for the football who was beaten less than a month later in the semifinals of the European tournament.

A tide that exceeded all forecasts went to the Barça fiefdom. Even that of Eli, the mother of Alexia Putellas, who tells in the Amazon documentary how the kick-off was lost due to the access queues. Barça’s 11, an incomparable player, winner of two Ballon d’Ors, was the symbol that women’s football needed to shake off the patina of minority practice.

“More than empowerment”

The duel of Spanish rivalry improved in spectators to any game of the men’s team of the season up to that date, it was the confirmation of a discipline that has just signed, not without difficulty, its professionalization with the F League. The result was the least important , but the locals certified their classification with a 5-2 through which they asserted their favoritism. A condition conscientiously carved out by an entity that has spent years structurally betting on the football to the point of dragging the other great Spanish club, Real Madrid, to create its own section in 2020 after the merger by absorption of Club Deportivo Tacón.

An unstoppable development that has resulted in an unstoppable generation for the Spanish team, broken into two streams by the management of the coach Jorge Vilda. The coach has not achieved great goals with the absolute and has quarantined ’15 rebels’ to form a new team that does not question his approaches for the World Cup 2023.

But the development of women’s football surpasses everything. As the Camp Nou mosaic said on that historic afternoon, “it’s more than empowerment.” It is not a social issue, it pretends to be a sports industry that guide the thousands of aspirations of girls that the protagonists of the present could not have. “I never dreamed of being a footballer, because I had no references,” says Alexia in his documentary.

It was more difficult to open the way for women like Irene, the Coruña woman who played with men in the 1920s and who became captain of her team. Equally meritorious is the resistance and denunciation of the players who endured the systematic harassment of Ignacio Quereda, Vilda’s predecessor. Examples of resistance and courage that lead to a recent present and past such as the one experienced on March 30 in a stadium that less than a month later once again exceeded the largest known audience for a women’s soccer match in the semis against Wolfsburg. .

Up to 91,648 people applauding their own and rivals alike in an image of concord that is not incompatible with competitiveness, essential to maintain the next state of the football, in which there is no talk of vindication, but of standardization of the merits. With heroines, villains, sweet and bitter endings… A new world where they are the protagonists.

800 ‘Marian’ meters

If the journey of women’s football to date has been a long-distance route, that of the other great feat of Spanish sport in March was in The motorbike, the nickname of Mariano Garcia. A shiny machine that reached 800 meters in 1:46:20 to proclaim itself indoor world champion in Belgrade. The icing on the cake for a great year for Spanish athletics, which returned from the European Championships in August with 10 metals, 27 finalists and a third place in the medal table, the best result since Barcelona 2010.

Miguel Ángel López and Álvaro Martín each won gold (35 kilometers and 20 kilometers), adding to the long list of successes of the Spanish march. Asier Martínez closed a dream season, at the age of 22, with a gold medal in Munich which added to the bronze achieved in the Eugene World Cup. And Mariano did his thing, which is to amaze everyone, even those who have known him since he was little.

To talk about this superlative athlete, you have to stop at Fuente Álamo, his town, which he made world champion in March and European champion in August. There he began to run, first because he was afraid of some dogs that were chasing him. Then as part of extracurricular activities. And so it will remain until the end of his days. She doesn’t want to know anything about moving and still today she trains in a triangle of sand in a square near his house.

The motorbike removed this year a deep thorn that He was left out of the Tokyo Olympics due to appendicitis. Mariano grew up as an impetuous child who did not manage the races. Gabi Lorente, his usual coach, warned him: “Don’t get hot.” His disciple complied. He asserted his distance leader of the year status from behind to accelerate at the finish. “I have believed it and I have achieved it,” he confessed after hanging a metal on a chest that is going to be small for so many medals.

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