Colombian forward Linda Caicedo is making history as the first player to represent her country in a U-17, U-20 and FIFA Women’s World Cup in the same calendar year. However, just a few years ago, she faced an even more intimidating challenge when she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer at just 15 years old.
Caicedo discussed the battle, and her journey back to the pitch, with hosts Meghan Klingenberg and Eric Alvarez on the NBC and Telemundo podcast My New Favorite Futbolista. Her interview was conducted in Spanish and translated into English.
“The truth is, I was very young and maybe I didn’t quite understand what was happening to me,” Caicedo said. “My parents were the ones who received the information because I was very young. It was very complicated.”
Her mother, Herlinda Alegria, was also interviewed for the podcast. She recalled the difficult trips to the hospital where Caicedo was treated for the tumor. Ovarian cancer, as Alvarez points out, has an average age of 60 at diagnosis, making Caceido’s case quite unusual. Alegria’s…
