Maria Antònia Mínguez

Mínguez grew up with a strict father. Though her brothers played football, she did not tell her father that she had joined a football team until the day before their first match.^[2][3] She then gave up football because of a boyfriend who was against her playing.^[3] From her retirement from football until her actual retirement she worked as a nurse.^[4]

Mínguez saw the advertisement published by Immaculada Cabecerán seeking players for a women's Barcelona football team,^[5][2] and decided to try out as a way of dealing with grief after her fiancé died on her birthday.^[3] Like all players, she tried out as a general outfield player, with coach and former goalkeeper Antoni Ramallets choosing her to be one of the goalkeepers. Mínguez had admired Ramallets and was satisfied with this.^[2] The goalkeepers trained with César Rodríguez, who was briefly the second coach, a former forward who drilled them until they stopped everything he shot at them. She started as the goalkeeper in the team's first match.^[1]

Mínguez stayed at the club for four and a half years, from 1970 to 1974, and during this period, she alternated with fellow goalkeeper Núria Llansà.^[2]