Vanesa Gimbert will hang up her boots at the end of the season, at 42 years of age

Vanesa Gimbert will hang up her boots at the end of the season, at 42 years of age

Vanesa Gimbert is the tenth player with the most matches played with the red-and-white shirt. In 9 seasons, the defender has played 248 matches, 86 of them consecutively. At 42, She has decided that this season will be her last as a professional player.

The rojiblanca entity has announced that Gimbert will put an end to a career in the elite of 23 seasons in the highest national women’s football category. He wore the shirt of six teams: Levante, Huelva, Sevilla, Rayo Vallecano, Espanyol and Athletic, the club he joined in 2013, and with which he won the League championship in the 2015-2016 season.

Athletic highlights that “in her nine seasons at Lezama, Vanesa has been an example of professionalism, discipline and perseverance”, and recalls that “her regularity led her to sign the record for consecutive games leaving the figure at 86, playing every minute of all of them”.


Source: Eitb

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