María Pérez: “We are very ambitious players and we believe that we have to win every game”

MADRID, 29 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –

The Spanish team player María Pérez stressed this Wednesday that they are not going to speculate in the two remaining games of the Nations League because they are “very ambitious” and want to “win all the games”, while she positively valued both her change to Sevilla as the arrival to the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) of Markel Zubizarreta.

“We are very ambitious players and we believe that we have to win every game and that’s what we want. We are going to go for the three points just like we have done in the previous four games,” María Pérez highlighted at a press conference.

The Sevilla soccer player believes that there is “a very good atmosphere right now” after there were some “complicated first days for everyone.” “I think things are being done well. Now what had to be talked about at the time has been talked about and there is a good atmosphere, happiness and desire to win,” she highlighted.

Regarding the current apparent superiority of the Spanish team over the rest of the teams, María Pérez considers that they limit themselves to proposing a “game plan” and focus on their “game” which is what makes them “very superior.”

The player on loan from FC Barcelona confirmed that she is “very happy” to have returned to the national team after her experience in the World Cup. “I hope to return to the next camps. Returning to the national team in the end is because they reward you for what you do in your club,” she said.

“It is true that all changes need their process, at first you have to adapt to that new game, I came from Barça and now I feel much more comfortable and with that continuity that I want and that I hope continues like this,” he said about his start in the Sevillian team.


The 21-year-old Catalan is facing “a new game” that she believes will “help her grow in those facets” that she needed the most. “It’s going to help me in the most defensive aspect, more in terms of impact, and I think it’s going to help me improve and evolve as a footballer. Obviously, my intention is to return to Barça, but I think that this stage at Sevilla is going to be very useful for me.” good for my evolution,” he said.

“At Barcelona many times you have a very easy game with the players around you, but it is true that being at Sevilla is going to help me improve defensively, which in my position is one in which sometimes I have to crash more and they are helping me a lot to improve that position,” he added in this regard.

Regarding the arrival of Markel Zubizarreta, new director of Women’s Football of the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF), he recalled that “he did things very well at Barça” and that “it will benefit everything.” “She knows how to work very well and she knows how to internally manage what they have to manage. I welcome her with open arms and am delighted to have her here,” she said.

To conclude, regarding the debut with FC Barcelona of the young Giulia Dragoni, with whom she coincided in the reserve team and who this Friday will be a rival with Italy, the midfielder highlighted that “she is a player who has a long way to go” and that ” “Everyone has seen what he is capable of.” “I was able to play with her and she has something different, she is visible to the naked eye and I would be happy to see her again because I haven’t seen her in a long time,” she concluded.