The world has its eyes these days on the United States, Mexico, and Canada, the hosts of the FIFA World Cup in the 2026 edition. The big names have passed through there: Lionel Messi, Lamine Yamal, Kylian Mbappé, Harry Kane, and Erling Haaland… Talking about football is necessarily talking about the World Cup. But something special about this sport is that there are extraordinary stories in every corner of the planet. This is one of those stories. The CD Getafe Femenino team, Alevín category, has surprised in the 2025/26 Autonomic League season with an overwhelming performance: 278 goals scored and only 10 conceded. All in just 24 matches.
Sira Pérez de la Cruz, Clara González, Lucía Blázquez, Luz Paz, Daniela García, Sara Pérez, Paula Sánchez, Sofía Cabrera, Alba Peláez, Olaya Ariza, and Inés Lopez are the record Alevín players of Getafe. They are between 11 and 12 years old and have spent half their lives playing football. They are not just a team; they are a family where there is always laughter. They love this sport, and the first thing they do when they see a ball is run to kick it. All of them dream of becoming professionals and playing for Real Madrid, Barcelona, or Atlético de Madrid. However, for some, the first option is Getafe, and the ultimate goal is to be part of the Spanish Women’s National Team, for which they are clear that they must be the best at what they do.
The team is already filling its first pages with epic. They played several matches in which they scored more than a dozen goals. There were a couple in which they surpassed twenty. Such thrashings are unforgettable. A well-known example is that day in 2019 when Norwegian Erling Haaland, then 18 years old, scored nine goals in a single U20 World Cup match. He did it in the 12-0 victory against Honduras and it was his introduction to the football world. Today he shines in the Premier League with Manchester City and led his national team to the World Cup quarterfinals. But let’s go back to Getafe. This girls’ team only lost one match on the way to winning the trophy. The competitive spirit shared by the girls has allowed them to achieve a figure difficult to match, one more commonly seen in video games than in real-life tournaments.
The top scorer has been Paula Sánchez, 11 years old. She scored 97 goals in the league — and the number increases if you count those scored in other tournaments. Paula plays as a forward and admires Claudia Pina, a Barcelona attacker. She is a fan of Atlético de Madrid and projects with a permanent and contagious smile the joy she says she feels every time she scores a goal.
–What do you like most about Atleti?
–All their Champions – some of her teammates respond in chorus and jokingly, recalling that Atlético de Madrid has never won the Champions League.
The unforgettable season for the Getafe Alevín girls began on the first day of the league, in October 2025. The first opponent was Juventud Sanse, from San Sebastián de los Reyes. They won decisively with a score of 10-1. Sofía Cabrera, midfielder, scored the first goal eight minutes into that match. There were crushing matches, like the two they won against CD Móstoles – the first by 26 goals and the second by 25, none conceded. They only had one defeat all season: they lost their visit to Madrid CF 0-2. They had won the home match 2-0.
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This season they have not only been the team that scored the most goals. They have also conceded the fewest. The goal is guarded by Sira Pérez de la Cruz, who only conceded 10 goals in the league. “I’m going to say it, but three of those goals we scored on ourselves,” she admits laughing while answering the interview alongside her defenders, Daniela García and Clara González. The three of them have been the wall of Getafe Femenino, but they don’t take all the credit. “It was a team effort. Preventing shots on goal is the team’s job, then maybe I made some saves,” highlights Sira, who has been training for six years and has Iker Casillas as a role model.
Getafe Femenino trains at the Alhóndiga Municipal Sports Complex – Sector III, on one of the artificial turf fields. Coach Eduardo Pesqueira, 26 years old, admits that some players have had injuries — none serious — from practicing on that field because it already shows considerable wear, but he emphasizes that there is already a commitment to change the turf this summer. Pesqueira, from Benicasim (Castellón), applauds the team’s performance: “They are very hardworking. They have been able to maintain a pace and competitive spirit throughout the league and have managed to remain undefeated from September until the end of May.”
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The coach says the club is relatively new. It is five years old and has gradually structured the youth academy. The first team of Getafe Femenino has climbed and is now in the second RFEF. “The rest of the teams at the school level are looking to grow,” Pesqueira notes before indicating that “there are several levels so that all the girls in Getafe have access to play football.”
Thanks to the outstanding performance in the Autonomic League, the Getafe Femenino Alevín girls received recognition that reached other communities. The last expedition was to Galicia to compete in the Ramiro Carregal Soccer Cup Femenina Tournament, in Vilaxoán (Pontevedra). After 11 hours on a bus, the team arrived on a Friday afternoon directly to play two matches that did not go well — they lost one and drew the other. They only needed to rest. The next day they reunited with victory by beating Real Valladolid and As Celtas, and on Sunday, they advanced to the final to face Bizkerre Gobela, from the Basque Country. They won on penalties and took the trophy to Getafe.
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