women’s football has experienced exponential growth in recent years. In Spain, the wave is already unstoppable and has increased both interest in parties in audiences and in stadium assistance. female idols are increasingly in a row and the fan phenomenon has come to stay in the Futfem.
There is no doubt that players like Alexia Putellas, Salma Paalluelo, Olga Carmona or Aitana Bonmatí They have contributed a lot to this new movement. The four Gold balls Consecutive are already the greatest milestone in terms of individual awards in the history of Spanish football.
However, although Putellas and Bonmatí They now lead all awards rankings (Aitana without going any further has been nominated for the second time for the laureus) The first Spanish woman to be nominated for the highest individual award that can grant football is none of them two.
A decade before
The pioneer Vero Boquete is the one that this pioneer records. A October 24, 2014. The Galician footballer appeared in the lists of selected who opted to the Golden Ball. Nadine Angerer, Nilla Fischer, Nahomi Kawasumi, Nadine Kessler, Marta, Aya Miyama, Louisa Necib, Lotta Schelin and Abby Wambach shared a nomination list next to the soccer player.
At that time Vero Boquete, Twenty -seven years old, I played in the ranks of Frankfurt eintrach female, and was the captain of the Spanish team (with which he had debuted in 2005). The red had achieved an unpublished milestone a month earlier, to qualify for the Canada World which would be held the following year in 2015.
-Thus the Galician was pronounced upon receiving the news, eleven years ago. “I am obviously very, very happy. I do not believe it. It is a pride to be part of a list with other high -level players,” he said for the RFEF.
“I think the nomination comes thanks to many years of efforts and work. My career in different clubs, in other leagues, from my beginnings in Spain, to my passage through the United States, Sweden, now Germany has done, I think, I have more impact my work. I am very happy to be part of the list, which is already a prize in itself“, Said the Captain of La Roja about the possibility of winning that year the Golden Ball.
Gold Ball 2014
That edition Nadine Kessler, then Wolfsburg player He was finally the winner of the 2014 edition with 17.52% of the votes. His male counterpart was Cristiano Ronaldo, who raised the third of his career. Boquete received 6.15% of the votes and was in seventh place.
Coincidentally in that edition Jorge Vilda was also nominated for his work in the Sub 17 and Sub19 female selections.
His achievements were not there. In 2020 it was included in the ideal eleven of FIFA. Today Boquete combines his work as a commentator with football, he is still active at 38 and is an important part of Fiorentina. The legacy he has left for Spanish women’s football is immeasurable, being also the first Spanish to rise with a Champions League.
