Maria Antònia Mínguez

Maria Antònia Mínguez Martín (born 5 March 1947) is a Spanish former footballer and pioneer in Catalonia. She played in FC Barcelona Femení's first-ever match on 25 December 1970, thus becoming the first goalkeeper in the club's history.
Early life
Mínguez grew up with a strict father and brothers who played football.
Mínguez stayed at the club for four and a half years, from 1970 to 1974, and during this period, she alternated with fellow goalkeeper Núria Llansà.<ref name=":0" />
Post-football career
Mínguez gave up football because of a boyfriend who was against her playing.<ref name":1" /> From her retirement from football until her actual retirement she worked as a nurse.<ref name"Barça" />
On 21 December 2020, the FC Barcelona Players' Association organized a ceremony to mark the 50th anniversary of that first match, which was held in the Sala Roma, and the broadcast of the party's anniversary allowed two of those pioneers, María Antonia Mínguez and Consuelo Pérez, to get in touch with their former teammates with whom they had not had a relationship for decades, thus reuniting with their teammates thanks to the television and social media promotion of this event.<ref name"Barça" /> Both of them have become members of the Group of pioneers in the club's women's football section.<ref name"Barça" />
In 2021, Mínguez appeared on a television programme on SER Catalunya, discussing the abuse she and other players endured for playing football in the 1970s.<ref name=":0" />

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