Aldana Cometti

She grew up in a football-mad family in the Buenos Aires, where she spent hours playing in a park with her mum in goal, her dad teaching her to shoot, and her brother using flowerpots as makeshift posts.

Before choosing football, she played field hockey at from the age of four.

She took her very first football steps at nine years old with Excursionistas in Buenos Aires, often sharing the pitch with women in their 20s and 30s because the club had just one training slot for all age groups.

As a teenager she and her family dreamed about Europe so much that she started emailing clubs herself – she has recalled sending messages even to FC Barcelona – looking for a chance to play abroad.

In 2025 she was selected to join FIFPRO’s World Player Council, sitting alongside global names such as Lucy Bronze, Crystal Dunn and Vivianne Miedema to help shape decisions that affect footballers’ working conditions worldwide.

She has been one of the most outspoken voices about the need for better conditions in Argentine women’s football, taking part in player strikes and public letters.

She shared that one of her key pre-match rituals is seeing or speaking with her family before games – she says that contact gives her extra strength and calm when she walks onto the pitch for Argentina.

She often talks about how seeing Lionel Messi at the 2006 men’s World Cup lit her imagination as a kid – because there were no women on TV to copy, she projected her dream through him; her hope now is that girls can dream through her generation instead.

She and her whole family are River Plate supporters.