Long before Spain lifted the Women's World Cup, or stadiums began to fill up to watch women playing football**,** there was already a Spanish women's team playing international matches without the support of the federation.
In the early 1970s, a group of footballers travelled around the country promoting a sport that was still viewed with suspicion under the Franco dictatorship. That team went on to face Portugal and Italy and had a captain who would become one of the greatest legends of Spanish women's football: Concepción Sánchez Freire, better known as Conchi Amancio.
