Former Spain international Virginia Torrecilla has retired from football aged 29. While a player at Atletico Madrid, she overcame cancer and returned to play 683 days later.
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Atlético Madrid's Virginia Torrecilla explains how she came back to football following brain tumour treatment and a car accident that left her mother paralysed from the waist down.