The Ballad Of Irene González - Howler Magazine 🔗 ⚽️ 🇪🇸 👩🏻

A look at a pioneer of the women’s game in Spain

She was an almost mythical presence, this fearless and foul-mouthed goalkeeper, ranting and raving at her defenders and diving at the feet of forwards. Mystical, too. She placed a doll with the likeness of a footballer inside her goal to ward off the ball — an idea borrowed from Ricardo Zamora, perhaps Spain’s greatest ever goalkeeper — and one contemporary newspaper account claimed that ‘there is no one who can score against her.’