Proud of the difficult stories, the Spanish National Team said, “It is not easy to leave your country without your mother and father…”

“Life in my country was not easy. My family is very large – I am the youngest of 18 siblings – and my father could not cope with everything. There was no money left to buy me a book so that I could read like the other brothers. Sometimes I would help my father at the clothing store, but most of the time I had to stay at home. One day, one of my brothers’ friends found me crying because my parents wouldn’t let me play football – sometimes the kids just disappear if they go alone – and they said if I went with them I would try to come. To Europe”. Mamadou Traore (Abidjan, Ivory Coast, 2004) was young when she took a risky journey in 2018. The frustration of not being able to hit the ball right now caused her to make a decision that would change the course of her life, and today, with all her documents, she is the goalkeeper of the Spanish refugee team and the Unity Euro Cup He and his teammates have more than one reason to want to give up “everything” for Spain.