María Dolores Delgado Rossi was born in Istanbul, Turkey, 18 years ago and, for some time now, her name has been reverberating in the youth ranks of Spain for her performance at Real Madrid.
With Creole roots and with an Italian passport (according to different sources), the young woman chose the Argentine National Team, a shirt she has represented since 2023.
His history, his numbers and his present dazzle anyone, which is why we warn you to prepare to meet the jewel that shines game after game in Europe.
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Dolores Delgado: the jewel of Real Madrid who chose the Argentine National Team. (Photo: AFA)
Dolores Delgado: the jewel of Real Madrid who chose the Argentine National Team
Daughter of Matías Delgado, former footballer idol of Roger Federer himself for the mark he left at Basel in Switzerland, and Laura Rossi, who was a tennis player, 'Dolo', as she is called in Real Madrid, has been in contact with world-class sport for as long as she can remember.
It is evident that his Argentine roots influenced his choice for our National Team, despite having plenty of talent to develop his entire career in Europe.
Dolores' family celebrating, together with Roger Federer, one of Matías Delgado's titles in Basel. (Photo: FourFourTwo)
Since 2023, the attacker has been summoned to the Albiceleste, although distance and travel complicate her development in our lands.
Born on April 17, 2008, she has played in the South American Youth Games and still alternates scoring goals in Madrid with training in Ezeiza.
It is also true that the competitiveness of the league in which he plays week after week is not extraordinary as it might seem, but that is why let's get to know his stay in Europe better.
After 5 years as a figure in Atleti, Real Madrid could not resist Dolo and signed her
If we talk about Atlético and Real Madrid we are referring to two of the strongest model clubs in the world in the discipline.
The problem is that in Spain the children's and youth categories are underdeveloped: Dolores Delgado's marks are still impressive and incomparable, but she is usually measured against teams far below Merengue's aspirations.
The First Youth Autonomous Division is a regional league in which - although the lower teams of Merengue, Colchonero and even Madrid CFF participate -, there are 13 other teams that vary between Madrid development societies and slightly more dedicated clubs.
Dolores Delgado is the top scorer in the First Youth Autonomous Division with 56 goals in 22 games, 22 more than her second in Real Madrid. (Photo: @lafabricaenfemenino)
The litmus test falls once a year, when the RFEF faces the best teams from all over Spain in the so-called Women's Youth Tournament. This year it will be held from May 26 to 31 and, yes, the youth teams of all the clubs that make up League F participate, including the unbeatable Barcelona.
This edition of the Women's Youth Tournament will be the first that Delgado will play in the current runner-up Real Madrid since, until the middle of last year and for five uninterrupted years, Dolores was a player for Atlético de Madrid.
Even on the last opportunity he scored, but his most notable appearances were always in the other league: in the 23/24 season he scored 23 goals in 23 games, some less than his 30 goals in 23 games in 22/23.
In the aforementioned seasons he alternated categories, quickly climbing to the divisions closest to the Reserve of, today, Real Madrid. Since childhood, she has always been characterized by her immense scoring quota, and she can occupy the entire attacking front with ease. For this reason, the Argentine National Team never stopped observing her carefully.
Present and future: Dolores Delgado is already a reality for Real Madrid and the Argentine National Team
Delgado has 58 goals in 23 games (an average of 2.52 screams per game), almost 20 goals more than her teammate María González Redondo, and 22 more than her next follower: Rocío De La Cruz -of the current leader Atlético de Madrid-. In this way, she is the top scorer of the First Juveni Autonomous Division.
Five dates before the end of the aforementioned regional tournament, Merengue trails Colchonero by three points and will return to action on April 19, when it visits CD Getafe on matchday 26.
As if these numbers were not enough, last season Dolores was champion with Atlético de Madrid and was also the top scorer in the entire league, with 38 goals in 24 games.
Dolores Delgado is now a reality for the Argentine National Team (Photo: AFA)
These impressive statistics did not escape the gaze of Germán Portanova and Christian Meloni, who are very attentive to the figures who served abroad all their lives but who have ties to Argentina, for some reason or another, and called her up. And Dolores accepted.
Thus, it is impossible not to be excited about María Dolores Delgado Rossi and dream big: her notable presence in the Argentine National Team and in Real Madrid is already a fact, but she has a long and prosperous road ahead.