Virginia Torrecilla retires. The Balearic footballer, who wore the Barça and Atlético shirt, announced this Thursday that she is leaving professional football after 14 years active. In 2020 she suffered a brain tumor from which she managed to recover and return to play two years later. The 29-year-old midfielder has announced that she is hanging up her boots this Thursday through an emotional video in which she promises to remain linked to the world of football.
Trained at Collerense, the Spanish international signed for FC Barcelona in 2012. With the Blaugrana team she won three League titles and two Queen's Cups. There she met some of the most important people for her in the world of football, such as Alexia Putellas. After spending four seasons in French football, with Montpellier, she joined Atlético de Madrid.
It was in his second season with the mattress team when they detected a brain tumor. The recovery was long and very hard, but Torrecilla always faced the process with optimism and desire to play again. Two years later, in January 2022, he dressed short again. It was in the Super Cup final that Atlético played against its former team, FC Barcelona. The Blaugrana were proclaimed champions but the image of that final is that of the Barça squad lifting Virginia Torrecilla to the sky of Las Rozas. A photograph that appeared on all the covers.
But in terms of football, his return was not as expected. That season would be testimonial and the following season his numbers did not improve either. They didn't count on her, so last summer she packed her bags and headed to Villarreal. This season he had played eight games for the Castellón team, but almost all of them as a substitute, accumulating only 152 minutes.
Today, he announces his retirement: “I want to thank you for the immense love you have given me for so long and I want to tell you that I will always carry you in my heart,” he said in the video that he shared on his social networks to break the news. . A video in which the shirts of the clubs he has defended and the Spanish team also appear.
It has not been easy: “It has cost me a lot to make this decision. “It makes me very sad to have to end like this.” But in his farewell speech to his teammates at Villarreal he confesses that “football right now takes away more from me than it gives me.” “I won't be on the field to be able to add, but I will always be outside so that you can take advantage of all the good things that veteran people like me leave behind,” he told him.
Her farewell publication has been filled with affectionate messages from those who have shared a wardrobe with her, such as Alexia Putellas: “Always by your side” or Laia Aleixandri: “Always Vir, inspiration and my example for so many years.”
