Torrejon: we wish we can horde a World Cup one day

• Record tip hilt with Spanish women’s inhabitant team
• Will play in a UEFA Champions League quarter-finals with Barcelona
• Spain face Serbia (on 24 November) and Austria (28 November) in France 2019 qualifying 

Much has altered for Marta Torrejon given she started kicking a football around in a propagandize playground, with a Spain captain now scheming to lead her side out in a FIFA Women’s World Cup France 2019â„¢ European subordinate double-header opposite Serbia and Austria.

The Barcelona actor already has her name in a record books with La Roja, though is though dynamic to continue to “grow”, a tenure she uses mostly in this disdainful discuss with FIFA.com.

Marta Torrejon fact file

• Age: 27 
• Position: Right-back
• Clubs: Espanyol (2001-2013), Barcelona (2013-present)
• Honours: Spanish championship (three times), Copa de la Reina (five times), Copa del Algarve (once)
• Education: Degree in biology

“The World Cup in France will be a good tournament,” she pronounced brazen of her team’s arriving qualifiers. “Irene [Paredes, who plays in counterclaim for Paris Saint-Germain] says they’re all happy over there and a preparations are going unequivocally well. We wish to be there too. It was extraordinary to go to Canada 2015 and it smooth a ardour to go behind and do better.

“France will be unequivocally good prepared,” Torrejon continued. “They’ve got some of a best particular players in a universe in each position, though they haven’t gelled collectively during large tournaments. That said, as hosts they’ll be fervent to make an impression. It contingency be smashing to knowledge a World Cup in your possess country. we wish we can horde one here [in Spain] one day. It’d be wonderful.”

Spain schooled a critical doctrine during a UEFA Women’s EURO 2017, where they mislaid to Austria on penalties in a quarter-finals: “We didn’t score. We played good and dominated possession though we couldn’t put a chances away. We weren’t single-minded enough, as we always say. But we consider we’re on a right lane and we have to keep operative tough and desiring in what we’re doing.”

There are still dual some-more years before a finals are hold and given a fast gait of growth in a women’s game, it is formidable to make predictions. For instance, 10 years ago who would have guessed that Torrejon would set a new record with a women’s inhabitant team?

With 78 general caps to her name, she has finished some-more appearances for Spain than any other player.

“It’s an honour,” she pronounced of a achievement. “I’m really happy and proud. we couldn’t have finished it but a support of my clubs and a trust of my coaches. But that record will shortly be broken. It took me 10 years to get there since when we started out we didn’t play really many general matches. But that’s good, it’s a pointer that a diversion is growing.”

Indeed, it has grown to a border that a Spanish joining has turn an appealing end in usually a few years, with Barcelona creation some of a biggest signings this deteriorate – including Lieke Martens, leader of The Best FIFA Women’s Player 2017 award.

“She’s a really down-to-earth, laid-back and desirable girl,” Torrejon pronounced of her club-mate. “And out on a pitch, what can we say? She’s really immature and possesses an implausible ability to take on and kick an opponent. And she can still grasp so much. It’s a pleasure to have her in a team. On tip of that, we go adult opposite her in training and have to try and stop her. Facing a actor who causes we problems is a good thing since it creates we grow and learn a lot.”

Local players urge when unfamiliar stars are signed. It sets off a sequence reaction, as their attainment creates a joining improved and some-more appealing to fans, while inhabitant teams rise as they have some-more finish and rival players to select from. All of that is a distant cry from a backdrop that existed when Torrejon finished her Spanish Superliga entrance during a age of 14 with Espanyol.

“I find it all incredible,” she said. “Things are totally opposite now to when we started, in each sense. The inhabitant group gets improved each year: there are some-more coaching staff, improved earthy training, some-more accessible matches. There’s also some-more media attention, some-more broadside and some-more interest. We have to keep relocating forward, even it’s usually small by little. Women’s football is constantly building and zero should delayed it down.”

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Una publicación compartida de Marc Torrejón Moya (@marctorrejon) el 30 de Jun de 2017 a la(s) 11:54 PDT

Congratulations small sister! Keep going since you’ve got to get even more.
Marco Torrejon, Marta’s brother, who now plays for Union Berlin following spells during Freiburg, Kaiserslautern, Racing Santander and Espanyol.

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