Debut at home against a strengthened Madrid CFF

Athletic Club ladies’ squad raises the courtain of the Primera Iberdrola at home this Sunday (field 2 Lezama, 12 noon) against Madrid CFF, a team that faces its third season in the highest category of state football and has made a firm bet after a season in which they finished just two points above the relegation.

Madrid’s club was founded in 2010, and after two campaigns in the top flight aims to consolidate in the elite. For it has looked for the balance in its exits and entrances in squad for this year. The Madrid CFF has eight new faces, in addition to the support that always support the players of its reserve team, which precisely lost in Lezama last weekend by 4-2 against Athletic B team.

Among her incorporations, the Brazilian international Monika Hickmann leads the defence and is one of the great signings that Madrid CFF has signed. In the forward line, the players from Madrid have another player of international stature, the French striker Marie-Laure Delie, formerly of Paris Saint Germain. Coach Oscar Fernandez makes his debut in front of the white team.

This renewed Madrid CFF promises to struggle hard and for it the technician has a large and versatile team. Lionesses’ rival has also got off to a good beginning in the domestic competition as it won by the minimum and in extremis (94th minute) against Real Betis in the first matchday of the league.