00:00When Catalina Usme told her mom that she wanted to be a footballer, she told her that it was impossible
00:05to be a dream.
00:06She responded that the female football didn't exist.
00:09The mentality that we have today has changed greatly.
00:12Since she was very young, her life had turned around the ball, when she played with her siblings.
00:19And that's why the explanation of her mom was very difficult to understand.
00:23If she played football, she couldn't be the only one.
00:27Today, the Antioquia is the captain of the female female selector.
00:32She has been the great leader of a team that has broken all the barriers.
00:36In total, she has more than 60 goals with the national selector,
00:40supering by almost 30 at the maximum male male role, Radamel Falcao Bersin.
00:46It's the historical figure of a whole generation.
00:49However, today, everything is very simple.
00:52Looking back, no obstante, is remembering a way that was not easy.
00:57Usme graduated from the college with the conviction intact that he wanted to play football.
01:02He had reached with 14 years to Formas Intimas, a historic club in the ballroom,
01:07and played by women in the country.
01:09However, thinking of being a footballer in those years was a chimera.
01:13She worked in multiple offices, in what it was, with a unique condition that she left out.
01:20Catalina grew up to the effort and with the illusion intact.
01:23The first great jump came when she was invited to the sub-20 of Colombia
01:28to compete with the South America of Chile in 2006.
01:31She was only 16 years old, but already played with madurez.
01:34That's the call that even surprised her family was the beginning of an idyllium with the national selector.
01:41Since then, never more came out of the radar of the national convocations.
01:46She passed through all the juveniles to be consolidated in absolute.
01:50With which she played the World of 2011 in Germany,
01:53it was the first World Cup of Mayors for the footballers of the country.
01:57And repeated in the next Copa, when the selector earned a historic classification
02:03in the next round after winning France in the phase of the group.
02:06That day, the one who changed history, Usme made one of the goals.
02:11It was not his only one.
02:13He also was in the World of 2023,
02:16in the Olympics of London 2012, Rio 2016 and Paris 2024.
02:22It was also the champion of Pan-American in Lima 2019.
02:26Su camino, no obstante, ha estado más allá de la selección.
02:30Catalina Usme, en su rol de pionera,
02:32fue durante años la gran referente de la liga femenina que empezó en Colombia.
02:37Fue clave en la consolidación del torneo cuando, en 2016, llegó a la América de Janeiro.
02:42En las Escarlatas se convirtió en ídola, capitana y símbolo.
02:47Ganó dos títulos de liga y estuvo muy cerca de lograr la Copa Libertadores.
02:52Finalmente dio el salto a México y de ahí pasó a Europa.
02:56Su carrera ha sido una suma de conquistas, pero también de batallas.
03:00Ha sido una voz respetada en la lucha por la dignificación del fútbol femenino en Colombia.
03:07Su zurda ha sido una herramienta de transformación y su figura un faro para miles de niñas que hoy sueñan
03:14con estar en la cancha.
03:15Así como ella lo soñó en Marinilla, cuando no había referentes en las cuales reflejarse.
03:21Detener el tiempo es imposible, pero cuando Catalina Usme acaricia el balón, todo parece quedarse quieto.
03:27Su zurda mágica que ha conseguido más de 60 goles en la selección sigue dibujando poesía con cada jugada.
03:42¡Suscríbete al canal!
03:48¡Suscríbete al canal!
03:48¡Suscríbete al canal!
