Atleti in Women honored Priscila in memory of Almudena Grandes

Metropolitan hosted this Thursday The Atleti in women’s, an event dedicated to the women’s sections of the rojiblanco club which in its first edition was dedicated to the soccer team. Organized by The 50s and The Mattresses, the mattress stadium auditorium was almost full to attend this tribute where Atlético’s history was examined and where the current situation of women’s football was addressed. Among those present, former minister and now PSOE candidate for Mayor of Madrid, Reyes Maroto

With the presentation of journalist and athlete María José Navarro, the event began with the interventions of Inés Ronda and Julio Ruiz, president and president of Los 50 and Las Colchoneras, to give way to the first round table of the afternoon.

Led by Mónica Crespo, they participated Maria Vargas, sports director of Atlético, and former soccer players Maria Cabezon and dark sea. All three explain their beginnings, with athletics as a link before giving way to soccer between the first two. “I was born with a soccer ball,” Mar Prieto said. Maria Vargas He told how at the end of the Coslada adventure, he met an Atleti scout with Lola Romero in a bar in Arcelantes. “From there everything rose and on August 28 Lola did not meet to tell us all that Atleti accepted us. Entering this house was the best thing that could have happened to us.Vargas said.

“It was very difficult for us to climb,” Cabezón recalled. And Mar Prieto came. “I put in my grain of sand. I went down to Segunda to help Atlético de Madrid go up. It was achieved. It was very nice.” “When they told us Mar Prieto was coming, we didn’t believe it,” added his former companion.

The second round table, moderated by Natalia Freire, was put together Ruben Alcainevice president of the Professional Women’s Soccer League; Arantxa Uría, vice president of the Association for Women in Professional Sports and FIFA agent; and Grandma Romero. general director of Atlético de Madrid Femenino. They are betting on the law so that women’s football can maintain and grow in its professionalization, with the importance that fans and the media have for its dissemination.

“The hearings are working well,” said Alcaine, who decided to continue improving. “Atlético de Madrid is very involved”, He added, before Lola Romero spoke about the issue of the soccer player’s pregnancy. “We are the clubs that ask the unions to have a collective agreement. When the player gets pregnant, they have a year of paid leave and the clubs give another year to those who finish their contract,” said Romero.

The most emotional part is left for the end, the Almudena Grandes Award, Atlético fan writer and member of Los 50, who died in 2021, and was present throughout the event. Along with his siblings Manuel and Mónica, the award went to Priscilla Borgiahistoric player of the mattress team, where he spent seven seasons divided into two periods, with a year in between at Rayo Vallecano.

208 matches as a rojiblanca, with 99 goals, He is the all-time top scorer for Atlético de Madrid. The Sevillian retired in 2021 and is now attached to the sports management of the mattress club. He was very happy with the tribute.

“Thank you very much for remembering me, the club, my two bosses. I am excited to continue to see myself as a player. I always wanted to go back to Atleti, and I can continue to enjoy football with the generations we have in the academy that will give us many successes. It’s a privilege to be here.”