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Immaculada Cabecerán
Immaculada Cabecerán i Soler (24 February 1952 – 11 January 2018) was a Catalan footballer and Women's association football, women's football pioneer. Her promotion of the sport in Catalonia led to it becoming popular and formalised, and her ambition created the team that would become FC Barcelona Femení. Early life Immaculada Cabecerán i Soler was born in Barcelona on 24 February 1952. When she was young, her father regularly took her and her siblings to the Camp Nou to watch FC Barcelona, Barcelona play. Cabecerán had an older sister and a younger brother, and played street football with her brother, though she soon knew she wanted to play club football. Career An amateur footballer and Barça fan, Cabecerán approached Barcelona president Agustí Montal Costa in November 1970 with the proposition of a women's team. Cabecerán was the girlfriend of FC Barcelona player García Castany, and had become a friend of María Dinarés, the widow of Vicente Piera. Dinarés e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barcelona
Barcelona ( ; ; ) is a city on the northeastern coast of Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second-most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within city limits,Barcelona: Población por municipios y sexo – Instituto Nacional de Estadística. (National Statistics Institute) its urban area extends to numerous neighbouring municipalities within the province of Barcelona and is home to around 5.3 million people, making it the fifth most populous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
