The new Netflix programme shows how a controlling environment created factions in the team and how the problems pre-dated Jorge Vilda

They still bear the scars. All of them. Scars from being infantilised, torn down, belittled, mocked, abused and divided.

Despite having confronted a status quo and a system built to protect and extend the stranglehold of those in power, with the odds against them, and having come out the other side, the scars are visible in the tears, the emotive retellings, and the stoic faces of the members of Spanish women’s national team.

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