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Fine Marco Garcia

The golden girl … yellow

(Fina Marco García. 80 years old. Retired) Fina is 80 years old, of which more than a third of them remember watching football. First as a child with her brothers, who took her to see a cousin who played for Almazora, a team from the town where she was born. Already married, she found one of her husband's passions: Villarreal CF. Fina has never missed her appointment with the team and with Madrigal (now Cerámica), where she has experienced everything the club has gone through in the last fifty years.

“Pregnant with my daughter, who is already 50 years old, I did not miss a game, at home and abroad; first it was in the towns here, then we went to towns in Valencia, then all over Spain, and now I'm going to the final in Poland “, he confesses. Thus, Fina will have seen promotions to Third, Second B, Second or First, matches in Europe, and now she will see a final.

Now she is a widow, but she does not go to football alone, she does it with her two best friends, also veteran fans. A well-known trio, which the members of their soccer club (Celtic Submarí), call: The Golden Girls. The three have made “a power for being in the final”, since they assure “the trip is very expensive , but you had to go “, to which he also adds as reinforcement, that his daughters have told him” to enjoy and go without hesitation, “he says.

When asked about his joy, he assures that “my joy is my grandchildren, my great-grandchildren and Villarreal”, for this reason he acknowledges that “it has been hard not being able to see the team due to the pandemic.” His eyes light up when he talks about the final, although he admits that he will take “the pill of the nerves”, and that he will be accompanied by “a picture of San Pascual” (local and club patron). Although it is clear to him: “we are going to win, we are going to be champions, we deserve it”.