As a child, she didn't want to know anything about dolls and was just chasing a ball.

She was 16 when she created a daring soccer team that bore her name:

Irene F. C.

, Where she was the goalkeeper and the captain (and the soul) and the rest were men.

She was the first Spanish footballer to get paid to play.

A championship with 18 clubs was invented.

A century ago, the fields of Galicia were filled only to see it stop, which was basically flying.

That oddity: a woman who refused to have her

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