Virginia Torrecilla overcame cancer and suffered a car accident. The 29-year-old is now enjoying her last four months of professional football.

She has left League F and settled in the Balearic Islands. She published Nobody regrets being brave, a book that took her more than two years to write – in the midst of chemotherapy – and that neither she (nor her family) has ever been able to read. “Life has made me very sensitive after all, and it makes me value everything more,” she explains.