Patricia Guijarro, known as Patri, currently plays for Barcelona Femenina (Barcelona Femeni/Barça Femení), born in 1998, 26 years old, and is the third captain of Barça Femenina, the current king of women's soccer in Europe, playing as a midfielder.
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As far as player style is concerned, it is a famous 'attacking' defensive midfielder DM player, from Barcelona youth training La Masia (La Masia), good at passing and organizing, and is the absolute starting mainstay of Barcelona women's football team. [1]
World Cup qualification takes place on September 7, 2022 Patri's most recent game in a Spanish national team jersey.
The soccer player is 26 years old and two years absent from the national team, not due to major injuries; as a starting force for the current Champions League champions Barcelona Women's Soccer Team and the best player of the 22-23 Women's Champions League Final (POTM), Patri is even less likely to fail due to the ball skills factor.
Over the past two years, Patri's relationship with the Spanish national team has been, in short, one of "refusal to be recruited".
A central figure in recent years who has witnessed the rise of Spanish women's soccer and coaching management problems, Patri has tried to give up the chance to win trophies in exchange for radical reforms.
In September 2022, the Spanish women's national soccer team erupted in a '15-player walkout', commonly referred to as 'Las 15'. [2]
After the Women's UEFA Women's Nations Cup 2022 was reversed by England and unexpectedly ended in the round of 16, disputes over the management skills of then Spanish women's soccer coach Jorge Vilda and various training and tactical lapses by the national team surfaced. [3] After three captains, Irene Paredes, Jennifer Hermoso and PatriGuijarro, failed to communicate with Vilda's then president of the Spanish Football Federation (FEV), Luis Rubiales, a total of fifteen Spanish women's national team members sent a letter to the FEV at the same time (RFEF, Real Federación Española de Fútbol). ñola de Fútbol) announcing their withdrawal from the national team. [4]
In addition to reflecting on the problems of the national team, the letter was unanimous in stating that the players did not want to be called up until the situation improved, with all of the next 15 players and captain Alexia Putellas, who was absent due to injury at the time, expressing their refusal to be called up on social media.
However, the 15-man withdrawal did not result in a complete overhaul of the national team, and Luis Rubiales and Jorge Vilda, then presidents of the Spanish Football Federation, took a hard-line stance in rejecting the players' demands for reform, demanding that they voluntarily apologize and return to play for the national team.The RFEF even sparked a wave of publicity, leaking some of the withdrawal letters and disseminating unsubstantiated claims of the players to the media.
