When Cata Coll (April 23, 2001, Marratxí, Mallorca) received a call from Jorge Vilda to tell him that he was on the pre-list for the World Cup he did not give credit. She was on vacation in Malaga, she had just woken up and had a ‘Call me when you can’ message. She called him, told him and was very happy.
Vilda’s call
“I didn’t expect it, I was already thinking about my holidays, about being calm, everything suddenly changed, but it was very happy news,” he told SPORT and Prensa Ibérica from the concentration of the Spanish team in Palmerston North, just before moving to Wellington for the match against Japan. The ‘life of the party’ -everyone who knows her agrees on this- spends her free time with ‘Teleco’ [Maria Pérez], Tere Abelleira, Salma Paralluelo, Ona Batlle y Olga Carmona. “We have made a very nice group, when you want to meet, go to the game room.”
His presence on the list was striking, especially because Sandra Cloths stayed out. Evidently, she resented her teammate. “He was in a great moment, he had had a season of ten. But, in the end, it’s a decision of the coach and we can’t do anything with it.”
Lessons from the injury
He was aware, however, that he was going to the World Cup as a substitute for misa rodriguez. And that, if nothing happens, it is more than possible that he will be left without playing. “With the injury I have learned to take small things from everything that happens that do me good. This will serve me as a preseason to better arrive at Barça, to be prepared if I have to play in case something happens. I feel ready for it. I’m fine here, happy. If the opportunity comes, fine. And, if not, it will serve me for the future.”
Cata already knows what it is to win a World Cup. She achieved it five years ago, with the under-17s, and she was a Gold glove. She was very young then, practically a girl, and no one taught her to manage her expectations. “As a footballer you are not aware of what you have experienced, of what you have achieved. When the injury happened to me, everything stopped and I was then aware of what I had done. Everything happens very fast and you don’t realize it. Hopefully I can repeat that lifting the Cup.”
Five years later, Uruguay has changed for Australia and New Zealand and the sub-17 for the absolute. And she is convinced that her team can do something very big: “I see many possibilities, we all have that mentality. Let’s go one for it.”
The renewal with Barça, a shot of energy
The presence of Cata Coll in this World Cup it has been the big news in the toughest year of his career. He was out for thirteen months due to the ‘cursed’ injury that all the players fear, the rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament. He felt like a footballer again on March 18, against Valencia. He now feels “one hundred percent, the knee is respecting me a lot.” And, he explains, “working on the mind was very important to keep going.” “It is an injury with which you are not very stable. One day you are very good and suddenly you are very bad. That shocks you, because you want to be well and there are days when you don’t start. It was very hard to accept what was happening to me.”.
A couple of weeks before receiving the medical discharge, FC Barcelona announced his renewal. “I had doubts about whether I wanted to renew or not, because, jolín, it came from a hard year and Barça is Barça. But when they told me ‘we want to renew you, we want you here’, it was a shot of energy, I saw that they were betting on me, that they want me to be there and that means something… Now I have to work for it”.
2023-07-29 09:09:43
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