Macarena Sánchez

[1] She previously played at Colón and Logia FC teams in the Santa Fe Women's Football League.

A self-described "football feminist", Sánchez has been active in trying to change the women's game from an unfunded forgotten amateur sport to a fully professional one.

She was also active in other feminist issues, including supporting proposed changes to Argentina's abortion laws that would make the procedure legal.

As she was being compensated but not contracted and was locked out from signing with a new team for the upcoming season, she sued UAI Urquiza and the Argentine Football Association alleging discrimination where professional women's players were wrongly treated as amateurs.

Three months later, Sánchez was one of fifteen players who joined San Lorenzo on a professional contract, a historic first for Argentine women's football.

[4][7] In 2011, without any support and seeking a way to elevate her game, Sánchez moved from her native Santa Fe to Buenos Aires.

[15] Her team clinched first place and spot in Copa Libertadores in the seventeenth round, with a 5–0 victory against Puerto Nuevo.

[4][8] Having played internationally for her club, she perceives Argentina is being about in the middle in South America when it comes to support for the women's game.

She views it as an extension of her feminist beliefs as Khalo was: "at the time in which she lived, someone who fought for her rights with many things against her, such as the accident she suffered, but in the end she overcame everything.

[29] Sánchez made the news when she responded to a tweet with comments about her own lesbian sexuality, and support for women's football in late 2018.

[31] In August 2018, she took to social media to support a 7-year-old girl who wanted to play for a boys team in her native Santa Fe.

Throughout soccer matches, many women, such as Elba Selva, a star player for the Argentina team in the late 1900s, reports that she has been told by many crowds, even at home, to go back and wash dishes.

Recently, the Argentenian women’s football team led by Sanchez decided to speak out against Adidas, who instead of showing off players in their new uniforms, used models.

[40] On 5 January 2019, while on vacation in Santa Fe, Sánchez was informed by coaching staff that she was cut from UAI Urquiza because of her political activity.

[5][6][41][42][43] Being cut right before the start of the official pre-season meant she was unable to sign with another team in the Argentine national league until June.

[5] On 21 January, Sánchez published a press release outlining her complaints to the media about her treatment by the club.

She said in her press release, "These mechanisms are an exact replica of those used to deny recognition of the professional working relationship of male football players during the 1930s.

[...] We also need medical coverage, be part of the union of footballers working in Argentina, and we need our rights to stop being violated as is happening until now.

Social work was a change, as she originally studied graphic design as a way of taking advantage of the scholarship opportunity given by her professional football club.

Sánchez taking a penalty kick for San Lorenzo in 2019
Sánchez with Argentine actress Thelma Fardin during a match organised by Amnesty International in 2019