Back to 17: Guiniguada Femenino, heartbroken by the absence of Nao Mendoza

Guiniguada Femenino de Lomo Apolinario de Las Palmas beat Fundación Canaria CD Tenerife 1-0 in injury time this weekend with a goal from Patri Estupiñán, who was ecstatic, the first thing he did before joining his teammates in a hug. heaven in the memory of Nao Mendoza. Died this September at the age of 17.

It’s coming for you now Nao! #FlyHighNao

A minute of silence. RIP 🤍🕊️ pic.twitter.com/lhxryE7q1E

— CD Guiniguada Femenino (@cdguiniguadafem) September 10, 2023

“>

gg.didomi.doWhenConsent(!window.didomiBypass, ‘c:twitterwi-wUmBnnKy’, function () {
var x = document.createElement(‘script’);
x.setAttribute(“type”,”text/javascript”);
x.setAttribute(“src”, “//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js”);
x.setAttribute(“charset”, “utf-8”);
$(“.twitter-tweet”).closest( “span” ).append(x);
});

But really, in cheart of the islandersmore than the start of the women’s competition in the 2nd RFEF was to unite the feelings for the devastating departure at the age of 17 of its goalkeeper, Nao Mendoza, days before the competition began.

📸 | The best picture of success today, thank you Nao for so much strength from heaven!

Let’s go forward team! 😍

🕊️🤍💪🏻 pic.twitter.com/JWJktkDUBw

— CD Guiniguada Femenino (@cdguiniguadafem) September 10, 2023

“>

gg.didomi.doWhenConsent(!window.didomiBypass, ‘c:twitterwi-wUmBnnKy’, function () {
var x = document.createElement(‘script’);
x.setAttribute(“type”,”text/javascript”);
x.setAttribute(“src”, “//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js”);
x.setAttribute(“charset”, “utf-8”);
$(“.twitter-tweet”).closest( “span” ).append(x);
});

Canarian soccer player Naomi Mendoza, goalkeeper of the Canary Islands under 17 women’s team, died of illness which has dragged on for the past few weeks and where he is in a coma. It will be like a meningitis or something that remains unexplained to family and colleagues.

The news of his death was This September Canary Islands football was surprised. Despite his young age, Mendoza played for different teams such as CF Las Majoreras Guayadeque, CD Iregui, CD Universitario, CD Achamán or CD Guiniguada Apolinario. Some of the clubs fired the goalkeeper and showed their condolences on social networks.

“yeah a wonderful woman for his character and for his qualities,” said José Juan Arencibia, president of the Inter-island Football Federation of Las Palmas (FIFLP). In all the matches played this weekend in the province, a minute of silence was observed.