Moving the Goalposts | How Cata Coll became the present and future of Barcelona and Spain in a year
Keeper suffered an ACL tear in 2022. Now she is first-choice for club and country and a World Cup and Olympic gold medal winner
“Confident, risk-taker and big character,” Catalina “Cata” Coll says without hesitation when asked to describe herself as a player. The much-heralded promise of Barcelona and Spain has now become the present and the future and all it took was one summer.
A dreadful ACL tear in February 2022 ended Coll’s season and, with that, her hope to become second-choice keeper, much less first. With Sandra Paños the undisputed choice in goal, Gemma Font had no competition in the second position she had already won.
