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Off-the-radar: The tattered state of women's football – An EXCLUSIVE interview with Alejandra Martínez

In a new off-the-radar series covering other teams in Spanish football, Sarthak Kumar interviews Fundación Albacete's Alejandra Martínez on the neglected state of women's football.

If you are a FC Barcelona fanatic you might have found, and ignored, the one article dedicated to their women’s team, who demolished Fundación Albacete 10-0.

And yet, it was a proud moment for Albacete’s 21-year-old Alejandra Martínez. She wasn’t on the pitch but for the first time she was on the bench of the first team.

A breakthrough into top-flight women’s football was near. And she would do it with the club which represented her city.