Athenea Del Castillo

ABOUT ATHENEA DEL CASTILLO

Spanish professional soccer player who starts as a forward for Real Madrid of Spain's Primera División and the Spain women's national football team. She has 750,000 followers on Instagram.

She has been a Madridista, a fanatic supporter of the Real Madrid soccer club, since she was a little girl. She began playing soccer at 11, with Reocín in Cantabria. She then switched to Ave Fénix Racing where she stayed until the end of the 2018-19 Segunda División season.

She has a ritual of placing a pile of stuffed animals beneath an altar of the Virgen del Carmen for good luck before games. She played for the Spain U19 squad in the 2018 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship in Switzerland, where the team won the title. She made her senior international debut in October 2020, becoming the first serving Deportivo player to gain a full cap.

She was born in Spain.

Her teammates on the Spanish national team include Clàudia Pina and Laia Aleixandri .