Virginia Torrecilla, soccer player for Atlético de Madrid, experienced an episode of machismo with a taxi driver

She fought for her life after a brain tumor was detected and emerged victorious. Today, she can be said to have recovered. In fact, since last February, Virginia Torrecilla, a soccer player for Atlético de Madrid and the Spanish women’s team, returned to the courts, 714 days after the forced break.

The 28-year-old athlete lives her life as normal and also faces sexist prejudice, such as the one she reported this Thursday through her Twitter account. Torrecilla expressed her indignation when she was in a taxi and the driver asked her about her profession

“I just got into a taxi and the man politely speaks to me and we have a conversation, in which he asks me what I do for a living and I tell him I’m a footballer and he lets me go… I THINK WOMEN SHOULD NOT PLAY SOCCER.” wrote in a post.

Torrecilla, obviously uncomfortable at the moment continued. “The conversation has continued by laughing and asking him why he thought that way. Total, the usual… ‘there are more sports for girls etc’. The criteria given by people who have no f***ing idea. I don’t say what I think because they delete my account “he added.

In a third message, Torrecilla ironically addressed the people who criticized her for making her outrage known over the issue of machismo.

Of course, there were those who supported Torrecilla and gave him words of support. “When these things happen, think that you are changing the world”, journalist María Escario told him. Another user recommended that you do not lose “Not half a second more of your life to talk to such a character”.