2023-08-18 03:43:12
Vicky Losada is one of those stars that lit up Spanish women’s football before it was ready to take advantage of them. A player born from street soccer and who was always ahead of her time. Her career was advancing in much greater strides than would have been logical at her age. She and she always wore the captain’s armband until she made her debut with the Barcelona first team at just over 15 years of age.
That bracelet is the one that gives its name to the biography of the Spanish player written by the journalist Andrés Corpas and which bears the title of «Vicky Losada. Captain», published by Oberon publishing house. A book written in the third person although with the collaboration of the current Brighton player.
The work concludes with her stay at Manchester City, but it is not just a tour of Vicky’s sports career, although there is a lot of it in this book. Since her beginnings, when she was rejected by the children who didn’t want to play with her. How could they want to play with a girl? But it turns out that that girl, when she joined, she was better than them. She was always better. That’s why she was moving so fast.
Cover of the book «Vicky Losada. Captain»Oberon Publishing
But it was not all as simple as it seems to be explained by the speed of his career. Like almost all the girls who dared to play soccer in her time, she had to do it from scratch, enduring insults that were not easy to bear.
Nor was it easy to survive and advance without a female role model, there were only male role models for them. And neither were the conditions in Spain the best for a woman to develop a football career. This book also talks about the adventure and the fears and sorrows that emigration entails, even though the conditions were better economically and sportingly.
First the United States, then England to play for Arsenal. He always travels back and forth, to return to Barcelona. Trips in which, suddenly, his life changes and he finds love. True love, different from all the previous ones, even if it has to contradict all his rules, those that said that he would never have anything with a teammate. An encounter that changes her life, that makes her overcome his shyness.
Above all, he always plans the importance of the family, his reaction upon learning of Vicky’s sexual condition when it was something that only a small circle knew about. Long before being a reference in the LGTBI world. An activist, a captain in that too.
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