When Balbina Treviño was 36 years old, she had a decision to make. She had been out of soccer for seven years, but had an offer to play professionally. “I worked in government, so I was scared of coming back to play, (of) getting in shape again,” she told SB Nation in an interview last week. “I love soccer, but the other half of my decision, or the other 40%, is that I consciously said that I wanted to play because I was very mad about the conditions.”
She was worried that despite the points she could raise about the working conditions of the women in Liga MX Femenil, she’d get brushed aside because she hadn’t actually played in the league.