At the age of 14, she did and undid with speed, skill and coldness in the 2019 Colombian league. Three years later that teenager, Linda Caicedo, has her country in the final of the 2022 women’s Copa América, in the World Cup in Australia-New Zealand 2023 and at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
His smile is contagious and his skill dazzles. His football, in the three years he has been a professional, has been improving and his thing has been so outstanding that since last year, with just 16, he has been a regular part of the calls made by the Colombian coach, Nelson Abadía.
His debut was at América de Cali, from where he passed to his lifelong rival, Deportivo Cali, a club with which he was champion of the 2021 Colombian league in which he was the great figure in the second leg of the final against Independiente Santa Fe, game in which he scored a double.
From playing with men to professionalism
Born on February 22, 2005 in Cali, Caicedo grew up in the department of Valle del Cauca (southwest), of which that city is the capital, and there he took his first steps in soccer.
He began playing with men at the Real Juanchito amateur club in the town of Villagorgona, near Cali, and his talent caught the attention of Club Deportivo Atlas CP, which began to polish the diamond. The Valle del Cauca team did not take long to summon her and there America saw her for the first time, until she decided to hire her so that she would be part of the team in the 2019 league.
“The moment I told my dad and my mom that I wanted to be a footballer, they told me yes, that they supported me. The next day we went looking for a club and the only one we found was for men, so that’s where I started” , expressed Caicedo at the age of 14 in an interview with the newspaper The country from Cali, when he was already playing with the Diablas Rojas.
His first goal as a professional, a real gem: he received the ball almost in the middle of the field, got rid of three players with pure dribbling and speed and took a shot from the ground with which he overcame the resistance of the Cortuluá goalkeeper on 14 June 2019.
