«Here we call her María Isabel and it was an earthquake; a junk I talk about her and I start to cry. She was the first to organize the end-of-season parties. She was part of this great family », values the head of the Teldense chain. She entered at the age of five and then went to Femarguín. Her idols were Casillas, Ruud van Nistelrooy, Raúl Gozález. White was her color. “She will never come to UD, she is one hundred percent Real Madrid.”
“If I stop a shot by Alberto Butra, you put me as goalkeeper, Geli.” The begining of everything. The first stop of the champion. The gold was forged in La Garita. The phrase is the first box in the football career of María Isabel Rodríguez Misa, world champion with Spain in Sydney in an unprecedented feat. Ángela Hernández Cabrera Geli is the president of CD Yoñé La Garita and she emotionally evokes her first football steps in the Remudas field with the southern team. “You are not going to stop it,” the president replied. But she did she did. “And that Saturday she played as a goalkeeper, she did not score a goal, and since then, she has always tried to be the best in goal.”
The player from Telde, a striker in her early days, “was versatile, she didn’t get tired and she was a goalscorer. It was all a piece of junk, a tireless earthquake. A child was injured and they were left without a goalkeeper, so Misa wanted to show what she was capable of, and play in the position she had always wanted”, details the president with a photo in a red frame of the player from Gran Canaria in her hands. .
Meanwhile, his father Juan Rodríguez, recently arrived from Sydney, where he witnessed the Jorge Vilda Spain contest, remembers the thousands of training sessions. Road and blanket. Kilometers and kilometers with the mother of the star Fefi Rivero, also a witness to the feat of the champions in first person. She takes the word Geli, warrior and wanting to do justice. «She stood out, made a difference. The children chose her to be their captain because they knew that she was the best of her. We are very proud in La Garita, and in this case, in Yoñé, that Misa always remembers where she started playing, and how far she has come ». She was the only girl, the one who ate the ball. The goal was his. It is the story of the Yoñé girl.
Geli: «He asked me to do a Feminine because he didn’t want to leave. But there were no more girls»
«Her grandfather was a goalkeeper and she remembers him a lot. This comes from generations and thanks to him, she decided that she wanted to play under sticks, “says Juan Rodríguez. The father and the president wanted to approach positions on her change and the well-being of her cancer in her sports career. They clarify the origin of love for impossible stops.
Not only in football was she the first, the attitude that Misa had and has is found in any area of her life: «When the seasons ended, and we organized parties at the headquarters, Misa was the first to arrive, to help place the trophies , inflate the balloons and the last to leave”, recalls Geli.
Chess, triathlon and basketball
Papa Juan pulls from memory to remember the duels against his daughter. He excelled in all disciplines. multifaceted From the pawn to the bicycle. «At the Yoñé parties, parent-child matches were organized, they were games to enjoy as a family and have a good time, but even in that, she wanted to win and show that she was the best (…) In addition, María Isabel did a triathlon and won several races. She also played basketball, chess, and lastly, soccer. But all sports were great for him. But her happiness awaited him under a crossbar.
An illumination. I want to be a goalkeeper. And win a World Cup. «Once he stared at the kids who were playing soccer [entre los que estaba el hijo de Geli], and said that he wanted to play like them, he was no more than five years old, “says the president. She found the theater of her dreams. “She was one of the team, they didn’t treat her differently, they all went to the beach together to catch waves, to the park, or to any place where they could touch the ball.”
Juan Rodríguez: «Her grandfather was a goalkeeper and she venerates him. This comes from generations and is in the genes»
In a fit, he asked her to create a Feminine so as not to leave La Garita. «She asked Me countless times to make a feminine so as not to leave the Yoñé, but there were no more girls to count on. In such a way, that when the opportunity of the CD Femarguín came to her, the light came on ». However, and with the permission of Micky Sánchez, president of the Arguineguín club, a great pioneer of women’s football in the South, Misa is whiter than milk. «The team of her life was neither more nor less than Real Madrid. To which it belongs since 2020, the shield of her soul. “We used to get together to watch the Clásicos when she was little, my son was from Barcelona, and when Madrid won, María Isabel laughed at him for the result,” Geli jokes. Even wearing the yellow of Las Palmas seems complicated.
“Madrid is his club and he wouldn’t even go to UD, although he must first have Femenino,” the president replies about returning to Gran Canaria. Memories beat, the color white returns. “In her First Communion photo, a ball and the Madrid shield,” admits her father, with whom she shares a passion for Las Palmas. They cheered on UD in Segunda B in Siete Palmas.
Made in La Garita. Pride of belonging. Coach Christian Granado, with whom Misa played in Benjamins, remembers her as “a very competitive girl, who always wanted to win. You saw her and said, she comes. She was different ». Her bath in her gold impresses him. «It is an honor to say that I shared a childhood with a champion. Her passage through La Garita will not be forgotten ».
2023-08-23 03:22:49
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