Saturday, November 4, 2023, 08:26
Andrea Lloret (Murcia, 2000) does not waste time. The Real Murcia soccer player studies, trains and also leads several girls’ teams. “My days are very busy, but we are moving forward,” she admits just after an exam. This summer she returned to the Grana club from Fundación Albacete. But for the young goalkeeper, 11-a-side soccer is not enough and last October she was proclaimed champion with the beach soccer team twice. She won the Mundialito held in Ayamonte, Huelva, against Portugal (2-1), and the Women’s NEOM Beach Soccer Cup, in Saudi Arabia, in this case against Brazil (3-5). «It was a lot of joy. Spain is number 1 in the ‘ranking’. We are the best in the world. We have won everything », she points out.
«I found beach soccer a little out of the blue, about two years ago. He didn’t give importance to that modality. I’m doing well. In the end, the beach soccer leagues are in the summer and I compete with the Mazarrón Féminas. “It’s the first time I’m going with the Spanish team and it’s right in competition,” explains Lloret, who in June was European champion with Higicontrol de Melilla. She took a while to step onto the sand. Of course, since she was little she liked to play soccer: “I watched my brother play and we got into it. I started in futsal, but I switched to eleven football. I was a player for a year and I saw that I wasn’t very good at it, that what I liked was goalkeeping.
Currently, it manages to combine both modalities. And it is easy for us. Each one has its own peculiarities that require adaptation. «It is very noticeable. You fall and nothing happens to you, it’s sand. Furthermore, goalkeepers have a much greater role than in 11-a-side soccer. The basis of beach soccer is the goalkeeper. We reach the other goal with our hand, we can shoot from goal to goal… », he explains. Of course, alternating the beach with the grass also has interesting advantages. For example, the development of reflections due to the uneven surface of the sand. «Totally, I think I have improved them a lot. “The boats are very dangerous,” he says.
Back to the field
Now, without international tournaments until 2024, she is now available and ready to focus on Real Murcia, with whom she was barely able to play 45 minutes until now between commitments with Spain and various physical problems. “I have been injured due to a back problem, I missed two weeks when I went to Huelva and Saudi Arabia, they hit my quadriceps and gave me a bruise…”, she clarifies. She will join a team that is second in Group 4 of the Third Federation, the fourth category of women’s soccer. “The team is in good shape,” she says. From the beach to the grass.
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