Every year thousands arrive from South America and Africa, including many unaccompanied young migrants who find a new home in a team
The floodlit football pitch of Las Madres Dragonas de Lavapiés in Madrid. The club plays under a mural that reads: ‘Socially equal, totally free’
FC Darna began in Barcelona as an association to help young unaccompanied migrants. When some of the boys asked the president, Àngela Pérez-Chuecos, to create a football team, she took a leap of faith and in 2019 founded FC Darna, an 11-a-side team without money and with few prospects, but full of enthusiasm.
club. “I play with a hijab because of my beliefs, and no one questions me; they respect me. So much so that if it falls off during a match, they form a circle around me, stop the game and wait until I am ready.” But that was before, she adds. “One day, my coach, Ángel, found a sports hijab, and that was the end of the problem,” she says with a laugh.
The Alacrán Association is a non-profit organisation based in the north of Madrid. In addition to juggling two jobs, Gastelurt makes time to coach the youth team. Among them are girls who come from shelters, many of them minors of Moroccan origin.
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