The story of how Spain got their captain, the daughter of wheelchair-using athletes who broke barriers and inspire her daily, begins in a bar. One night, when she was seven years old, the phone rang at Irene Guerrero’s house. It was 11.30pm, there was school the next morning and she was ready for bed but her dad was on the line.
Out with friends in Seville’s Los Carteros neighbourhood, Jesús had come across someone he wanted her to meet. Twenty-six years old now, the scene still makes her smile: “He said: ‘Bichito, my little bug, come down to the bar.’ It was late but my mum said: ‘Go on, there will be a good reason,’ so I changed out of my pyjamas and went.”
