A devilish left foot. A mad race. A dedicated shirt. A goal, the only one, that makes Spain world champion. Yeah Olga Carmona He wants to escape from the comparison with Andrés Iniesta has it complicated. Something must have moved in the soul of this 23-year-old Sevillian, a fast winger for Real Madrid, because she jumped onto the pitch of the Australia Stadium in Sydney equipped in case she made history again. If there was a celebration, she had to be remembered. And she was her when in the 29th minute she put Spain on the way to the title of World Champion.
Her best friend had lost her mother and, in the midst of the most important moment in Spanish women’s football, she wanted to honor her by showing a red shirt where, with great difficulty, you could read “Merchi”. This time, she did not remember to comply with her ritual either. kissing the wrist tattoo he shares with his mother. She didn’t care. She ate it with kisses just the same, thinking about how good she has been in the girl’s determination to leave flamenco and swimming to follow in the footsteps behind her brother’s ball. Fran and his twin Tomás, who was in the stands of the Australian stadium. He will have time to remind her that the ‘bump’ will cost him to keep his promise to buy her mother a car.
Olga grew up in the quarry of the Sevilla FC, He made his debut in the Primera Iberdrola and entered the national team through the front door. She is a woman of great goals and in the European Under-19 of 2018, scored for the squad a goal that slipped into the top 11 of the season. Spain would end up proclaiming itself champion. In the edition a year later, despite losing in the semifinals with France, they qualified for the U-20 World Cup that was to be held in Costa Rica and that FIFA suspended due to the pandemic. “I was left with the thorn of having been able to play that World Cup”Olga has always recognized, whose first memory of a World Cup is that of France 2019 with that overwhelming United States team led by Rapinoe. Today he collected that debt and did it as a great protagonist.
Faced with challenges, this petite player grows. In June 2020, just released from confinement, Carmona made the most difficult decision of his life. His progression had caught the eye of the Real Madrid, recently focused on women’s football, and the Sevillian moved away from the comfort of the family environment and the sports environment that she had built for 13 years to bet on her dream. “When you leave home, the feeling is that it’s always a see you later,” she signed her farewell letter. In Madrid, the adaptation was not easy.
His mother helped life in the capital for a few months, while they focused on gain body and learn to manage emotions with a psychologist who ended up being his guide in the most difficult moments. One of his great supports was the captain Ivana Andres, who had also just arrived from Levante and with whom he has a great personal relationship. His goal made the Valencian, one of the veterans of the team that stayed away from controversy, raise the trophy to the sky of Sydney.