The families that live within the Three Neighborhoods-Amate of Seville enter 12,614 euros per house per year . They are the inhabitants of Los Pajaritos, La Candelaria, Madre de Dios and the low houses of Amate , in the southeast area of ​​the Andalusian capital. It is the poorest neighborhood in Spain and it is the streets where Ángela Sosa grew (Sevilla, 1993): best player of the last Iberdrola League, star of Atlético de Madrid and, in a decision that angered the vast majority of fans women's football in Spain, absent from the list of calls from Spain for the World Cup in France last June.

«It is something that I am not going to overcome », Sosa acknowledges to EL MUNDO at the Wanda Alcalá de Henares Sports Center, the new sports city of the rojiblanco club. «Although it may be difficult for people to understand, it is not something temporary. I dedicate myself and live for this and it was my dream, that my father could see me in a world championship . He is the one who has driven me since I was little to get here and it was the way to reward him ».

Angela is excited to talk about her father, the person, says, who accompanied him field by field since he began playing with boys at age five. She was "the spoiled girl" of the team and also played the bitter, unfair and macho part of women's football: "When I was little my father listened to many barbarities in the games," he summarizes. «They said the usual things, that the women were to scrub . And being small , huh. We went to neighborhoods in Seville that are closed-minded people and a team was coming with a girl ... I sometimes found out when my father came home and told my mother, but it has never affected me. By his father he carries the phrase "to infinity and beyond" tattooed on the neck, along with various symbols, numbers and phrases on the arm and leg that represent his family: "All are for them. The date of birth of my brother, that of my cousin or the coordinates of my grandmother's house, which is where we have all lived and where we have spent our childhood ».

He talks a lot about his father and his family. They all live in Seville, I owe them everything. We are from a very humble neighborhood, a working neighborhood, one of the poorest in the city, and now they live to the east, in a flat bought with all the effort they made, but proud and proud of being from La Candelaria. My mother still has the hairdresser there and we continue going to the same bar.

Ángela Sosa has been living in Madrid for five years . Five years since he packed and decided to make the jump to the capital and realized that he could live on women's football, although he had already made his debut with the first team of Sevilla in 2007, with 14 years. «That year some players charged and some did not, so we distributed the salary among all and gave for 75 euros per head . That was the first thing they paid me in football, ”he remembers, laughing. Madrid, with its people and its traffic jams, treats it well and with love, but "there is no color" when comparing it with its city. "The change was very abrupt because I had to leave my family behind."

At Atlético he has become one of the best players in Spain . He was part of the rojiblanca team that qualified for the first time for the Champions League, where its roof, three participations later, remains the eighth finals. At the same time, it has been a vital part of the rojiblanco dominance in the domestic competition, in which it accumulates three consecutive championships and a Cup.

Ten goals and 16 assists in the last league. Have you come to understand why it was not called to the World Cup? It is a decision that a person had to make. He (Jorge Vilda, the coach) as the maximum responsible. And he will have his reasons. I am not who to understand it or not. It's a fucking moment because you see yourself with possibilities of being, by sporting moment and by age. But it is something that was left behind, the decision was made, I spent the summer at home supporting them from television and there is nothing left to continue. Isn't there a bit of resentment? No, I will continue doing what he taught me My father, which is to work, is what has brought me here. That is something he instilled in me and I will not change my way of being.

The one of Atlético in the First Iberdrola is a continuous struggle with Barcelona , which this summer has robbed their scorer Jenni Hermoso , and a battle to which Real Madrid , still called Tacón this season, wants to be added in the coming years. Ángela warns the white club: «Every team that comes to add help to women's football, but like any team the gallons have to win them, you do not reach the First Division and suddenly you are Real Madrid, The Champion Of. No. Like Atlético is what he has been working for years ago, nobody is going to give away anything here and they just arrived, ”he says.

I used to talk about your soccer childhood, are girls who now want to be soccer players going to have it easier than you? Yes, because people know more about women's football and girls can have female references, before we only had boys because it was the most near. All that helps. In order for women to continue growing, girls need women as referents. My reference, for example, was Joaquin. And I'm not a fan of soccer players, but I liked the way they play and their joy. Money, sponsorships, fame or exposure also have their bad things. Everything is spread. But I would tell the girls to enjoy, not to let anything take away their motivation to play. Enjoy, because if they try to be more than they should be before the time comes, in the end they will get frustrated. That has no reward. It only makes you sink and lose the illusion. And what would you say to those who claim that women's football is not football? Well, keep living in ignorance, keep watching male football that is what they are used to. I am not going to judge them, but it is a pity that people are not able to open their mind, that seeing one does not mean not seeing the other. That nobody is better than anyone. In the end it hurts, because we are talking about a job that we all do daily, but I think they are a minority.

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