Mapi León

María Pilar León Cebrián (born 13 June 1995), known as Mapi León, is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a defender for Liga F club Barcelona and the Spain national team.

Quotes

• Ultimately, when things start to improve, your ambitions do, too.
• Nowadays you have a lot of tools and a better economy to be able to take good care of yourself, not before.
• It doesn’t mean that I am overly cautious at every meal, it means that if I have had a bad dinner, the next day I have to take good care of myself. It’s not that I’m strict, it’s that I try to take care of myself.
• There is no secret, it is of all of us: we always want to win. It’s ambition. I want to win every game, I train a lot for it.
• When you miss what you love the most, you start to value other things much more.
• My job is to play football and these are details that I shouldn’t get involved in but people in power who organise things make it [running women’s football] more complicated than it is.
  • Mapi León’s interview with Jot Down Sport by Tarek Nacer. June 13, 2023. Retrieved 17/11/2023.
• See, while football is a team game, and any achievement within it is reliant on working as a group, no matter which way you flip it it’s still made up of individuals – success is just based on whether these individuals manage to form a cohesive unit.
• When you are younger you obviously have different taste and likes than when you are an adult.
• At the end of the day, the life of a sportsperson is relatively short, we invest so many hours on it.
• I started gaining confidence as I have grown up, I gained experience, I gained moments, which when you find yourself in that situation again you know what to expect, you know how to act and how to resolve it.
• I think it is essential, you are never going to be more real than being yourself.
• There are people that don’t know how to find their identity and the things they like, you need to experiment, try new things. Try new clothes, try a new hairstyle, but most importantly have what ever makes you comfortable.
• At the end of the day is all about being yourself and feeling comfortable in your own skin.
• I have always been very competitive so when it comes to motivation, I haven’t really needed much motivation other than wanting to win.
• I always want to win no matter what.
• There is always room for improvement, always. Everything can be improved.
  • Mapi Leon For SoccerBible Volumes: 'All Power' by SoccerBible. July 8, 2022. Retrieved 17/11/2023.