'Now it’s the girls’ dream': Mara Gómez on becoming Argentina's first trans footballer

Gomez made her professional debut this month, and wants to break barriers in a place where football and identity are entwined

To get a call up to your club's first team is every Argentinian boy's dream. Or so the traditional tango goes.

Now it's the girls' dream ... too," Mara Gomez, who became the first trans footballer to play in a top-flight Argentinian league earlier this week, tells the Guardian. Gomez signed a contract with Villa San Carlos in the recently professionalized women's Primera Division, after years of journeying through the amateur leagues.