You've made it to the ESPN Deportes edition.Stay on current site or go to preferred edition.Andrea, the first woman on a Major League team with CU's Pumas, talks about her path to be with the team.(1:49)Andrea Martínez smiles under her football helmet.With the number 10 jersey on the chest and the colors blue and gold, the new Pumas CU kicker makes history by being the first woman in the Onefa Major League.Martinez, 21, laughs on camera, her teammates throw jokes at her, and she responds with the best of spirits.Questioned about her past in soccer, where she spent a year at Cruz Azul, she confessed that Karina Báez, a Pumas Femenil coach, was one of the cornerstones in her personal and sports life.She was the helmsman of the felines who gave her a place in the UNAM representative team when her opportunity with the Machine ended after there was a change of coach in the first team, a situation for which she was cut from the light blue box.“I was there for a year, from February 2017 to February 2018. We trained at La Noria, at Cruz Azul Acoxpa and then there was a change of technical director and it happens that the one who arrives knows girls with whom he had a career, he pulls them and they recruit more girls, they cut back and that happened to me," she confessed exclusively to ESPN.Andrea wanted to play soccer professionally, but what happened during her time in the Machine made her want to continue, because she worried about her future and she knew that she had to go back to school to have something. safe in her life.“In the beginning it was my dream to play professionally.I was 17 years old and then I began to see the reality of women's soccer at that time and I did not want to try myself again in another team, "she told this portal."About six months later they called me (from Cruz Azul), but I had returned to the representative and the truth is that I was more comfortable and felt less committed to knowing that one day they might cut me off and I would be left with nothing," he said. Andrew Martinez.The great culprit that Andrea is part of the sport at UNAM was Karina Báez, the strategist who today commands the Women's Pumas.At that time, the technical director led the representative team of the university.“Karina was the one who brought me to the representative.I met her outside of her and she brought me here, she told me to try myself.I had never played soccer (on a big pitch), only fast or seven-a-side soccer, and when I got here it was different, but since I knew Karina, I stayed with her”, she said with great joy.All ESPN content can be enjoyed via streaming with Star+.Subscribe NOW.When talking about Karina Báez, Andrea smiles even more.She confesses that he has a great friendship with her and that it is the best technique he has had from her, not only because of her sporting aspect, but because of what she contributed to her life and to that of each of her companions. of her 'repre'.Andrea Martínez does not know if she would return to soccer, less professionally if she has the opportunity, because she is committed to being the kicker for Pumas CU.Even if only Karina Báez calls her, she would think about it very well."I don't know, I don't know (go back to football).The Liga MX Femenil has a lot of power, a lot to develop, there are very good players, but the teams must put more emphasis on the equity of men's and women's soccer in everything that entails, in the dining room, in payment, and the same opportunities, but the league is growing every time and it's thanks to the players”.“Probably yes (if Karina calls me).Right now, not at this moment because I have things planned that I need to accomplish in the short term, but maybe at some point if the opportunity arises, ”she highlighted with a smile.