His father Milo And his brother Thomasnow what Teresa Abelleira is at the top of the football planet, they will have remembered those endless summer afternoons in which beaches of Covelo, Sanxenxo or A Lanzada in which the whole family spent two or three months and which turned into marathons of ball touches and soccer matches on the shore.
so the today world champion She didn’t raise an inch from the ground and the ball seemed many times bigger than her. But he was indefatigable. She never got tired. She returned it over and over again, over and over again. Everyone ended up exhausting themselves and giving up, except her.
In this way, contact by contact, control by control, that clairvoyant, precise and plastic footballer who has become one of the best players in the World Cup in Australia and New Zealand was polished. 2023 that just finished. She, champion and exalted.
almost two decades later Teresa Abelleira (Pontevedra, 2000) has been crowned after having modeled a football and a personality that first captivated Pontevedra, then A Coruña and Galicia and now to all of Spain and the world. He plays as he is: simple, without bending. A being of light on the field and outside. He grew up in a family that breathed sport and, above all, soccer. His brother still plays in the vilalongahis father is a globetrotter on the benches with a career in pontevedra, Celtic B or Culture. His sister Would go practiced athletics. All united by that passion and marked by the surname that gave its name to a hundred-year-old bakery in the Old area of Pontevedra.
Teresanow Teresapractical taekwondo and athletics as a girl, she soon settled on futsal and soccer. In addition to the beach, she also chiseled on the slopes of the area of A Caeira, in Poio, with his brother and with his family. She could also be seen in the training of both in a band, while she waited for them to finish, always attached to a ball. She played with children in the Lérezwith the poio I become Spanish cadet champion on the track. The quality was plenty and the options too.
He Depor He claimed it at the age of 16. was to leave pontevedra and go to A Coruña, it was not seeing his family every day because of a dream. He had a hard time taking her step, both her and her people. She has never hidden all the sacrifices of that time. Manu Sánchez and Pablo Pereiro, head of Dépor Abanca when it was created in 2016, They were clear that, as the tip of the iceberg of Galician women’s football, they had to capture all that young talent. She, Lía or Nuria, now in the Wolfsburg after leaving the Barcelona. The bet for Teresa it was unequivocal. Next to Raquel Bejar, she signed the first professional contract in the history of Galician football and wore the captain’s armband from the first days. He was the image of the project. This is how they passed it on to their father Milo and so he justified letting her go on that one-hour train ride that seemed like an abyss.
In A Coruna there were moments of nostalgia, of tears, also space to mature by force. It was an earthquake next to his inseparable lia. Years passed and she was still emotional. He cried in victory and defeat, it was a torrent, also of football, that conquered the Abegondo crowd and sportsmanship in a snap of his fingers. His football, his pipes, that football from the street transferred to the grass that, not without a couple of accidents (against the Modern Oviedo), it ended up planting in Primera Iberdrola. She, Athenea, María Méndez, Iris Arnaiz, Gaby, Peke… A generational team, which was a leader and only the pandemic ended up taking away a place of honor in that championship.
He went to Madrid and left A Coruña, that has always been a protagonist in the history of Spanish women’s football, such as with the irruption a century ago of the pioneer Irene González Basanta; the rise of karbo champion that ended up becoming the base of the first Spanish team that debuted in to guard in 1983 or the birth of the Deportivo Abanca in 2016, referent in Galiciawho brought footballers like Teresa Abelleira.
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It’s been three years since he played in agondo and in Riazor, but she has always been perceived as attached to the club. She had been seen in the stands, more at the stage in which her brother-in-law, Edu Sousa, was under the sticks Sports. The city, the fans and his former teammates in the locker room have not stopped celebrating each of his triumphs. It’s that, as I said Leah, “Tere is always the same wherever I am& rdquor ;, now in Sydney, as world champion. The top of that indefatigable girl from the shore of the beach.
“It’s nice that we break barriers and that they talk about us,” says the former blue and white
“It’s nice that we break the barriers and that they talk about us,” confessed the former sportswoman Teresa Abelleira after becoming world champion. “We are not aware of what is happening in Spain. I feel immense joy, it is inexplicable right now”, expressed one of the revelations of the championship and pillar of Jorge Vilda’s team as the only defensive pivot. For abelleira this achievement is collective: “Of us and all those who started. We are here thanks to those who took the first steps. We take with us that now every day more girls want to play soccer and dream of being world champions.” “Soccer gives you the best days of your life and the best, I matured a lot this year and all the effort of the season is rewarded. I’ve had a very hard year, and the family is the one that believes in you and they lift you up and it’s all thanks to them,” the Galician woman confessed.