Interview
Safe Hands: Adriana Nanclares
Her Goal, issue 4, March 2026 pp.78–79
The goalkeeping feature returns after a long absence with Spain’s starting goalkeeper from their perfect group phase at UEFA Women’s EURO 2025. The 23-year-old Athletic Club player picks a Copa de la Reina quarter-final against Tenerife in her first season at the club as her favourite memory, saving two penalties in the shootout. She began as a winger doing athletics alongside football and only went in goal because a tournament team needed someone. She rates her explosiveness on the line and her distribution, wants to improve in the air, admires Cata Coll and Ann-Katrin Berger, and credits Mariasun Quinones with teaching her that competition can be healthy.