Athenea del Castillo, Real Madrid women's player and Spanish international, assured that she would "never" play for Barça, "not even if it were the only team left in the world," and expressed her desire to be able to retire with the white club.
"For me I am in the best club in the world. For me it is a dream to be in Real Madrid, I have been a member of Real Madrid since I was little. I would never play for Barça, not even if it were the only team left in the world; because my dream is to play for Real Madrid. Hopefully I can retire at Real Madrid and spend my entire career there," he said in an interview with EFE.
About the last duel against the Barça team in League F, which they lost 0-3; and the subsequent talk to the players by their coach Aberto Toril in which he congratulated them for their work and encouraged them not to be sad and to keep trying, she indicated: "Alberto told us that. I always leave angry when I lose, because I don't "I like to lose and even less against Barcelona, that is a reality. We want to beat Barcelona, we want to be close to winning titles and we have to continue working for it."
"We represent, from my point of view, the best club in the world; and the best club in the world deserves to win. We represent a shield that must be carried around the world and we want to win, but in the end we have been alive for very few years, "only four. When the rest of the teams started winning it took much longer. It is true that we want to win and we are the first to work to get there. We are working, the club is growing year after year and I hope we are close to winning." , he added.
After that duel, Caroline Graham Hansen, a Barcelona player, pointed out that the Real Madrid players "always talk before" about the classics and "say that they are closer" to Barcelona, but that she and her teammates continue to win those matches of maximum rivalry. .
Asked about this, Athenea responded: "That's not true because on a personal level we don't make any statement before the classics or anything, I don't know where he could have gotten it from. I think he could have misinterpreted it, but I usually don't pay attention. "She is a great player, it is a privilege to have her in our league. Logically we want to win them and get closer to winning them every day."
On the other hand, she explained how she handles being one of the Real Madrid players who receives the most criticism from fans of other teams: "I live very calmly. Rival fans focus a little on me, but that will be because I will be doing something well." ".
"When there is that small rivalry between teams it is normal, it is part of the sport. As long as there is no lack of respect it seems great to me that this rivalry exists among the fans. It is the beautiful thing about football, that different people from different places are from different teams For me that is the most important thing," he concluded.
