Míriam Nogueras: "You have to fight for everything: every ball and every competition"

In the photo session there is something that must be fulfilled: that nothing covers the shield of FC Cardedeu. Nailed to Barça, even in the form of a pot. It is an “imposition”, between laughs, from the president of the sports club to Míriam Nogueras (Dosrius, 1980), who attends in a disciplined manner. During the conversation, the deputy of Junts in Madrid fluctuates between a smile and a good mood when she talks about her family and football, and a much more serious rictus when she talks about politics, the one that most perceive her in the her public interventions. Perhaps she is nothing further from reality: she is a (re)reader of the hilarious Finnish Paasilinna.

Where does your love of football come from?

From a very young age, from EGB. Going to the patio was like going to play soccer. We were several girls from my class who played. Around the age of 12 or 13 I started playing futsal at Dosrius. There were no women’s teams and a mixed one was set up. He had not played sports again until now, when Cardedeu has set up the veterans’ team.

Let’s see your level: if you were born a few years later, would you now be part of the Barça first team?

I do not think so. I am very soldier. I’ve always been a defender, but lately they put me up front…

Why?

I do not know! He is the mister. “You, to score goals!”. It’s complicated, because it’s hard to find veterans’ clubs. My husband, who also plays with veterans, has a game every week. Not us, every two, some day during the week, which depends on how I can’t even go, because I’m in Madrid. But I am a defense of all life.

¿Leñera?

Total woodshed. Not even a ball passes.

Like his interventions at the lectern.

(Laughs) Yes. My father always said that you have to fight everything. I try to instill it in my children. You have to battle it all: each ball and each competition.

Are you a Barça fan?

Lifelong. My father was from Espanyol. That is why at home we have a certain esteem for both clubs.

It is always said that it is very close to Turull.

The parakeet Turull… Turull, Quico Homs, President Puigdemont are people from whom it is very easy to learn. They are very expansive and overflow with experience. Turull trusts a lot and knows how to delegate. I started that he had no idea about anything. Just as when I was a butcher I didn’t know the difference between pork and beef, when I entered Congress I didn’t know it was an NLP [proposition not of law]. People like him make you strong.

Turull, like you, has a pungent word.

They called him Iceman. It has that point that looks like a wall, but it is also very spongy and everything that is cold or hard about it is its appearance. Together and ERC have never had as much understanding as when he and Marta [Rovira] were together.

What do you expect from him?

I trust your leadership, as well as that of President Puigdemont. The figure of him, in exile, is powerful and if he remains intact five years after 1-O it is because there are people like him and Turull who have a strength that endures everything. They have endured a 155 and now a political context of general anesthesia in Catalonia. But the effects of the anesthesia are wearing off.

What happens between Junts and ERC?

It is complicated, because what has happened in the country has made some consider that we have to go here and others there. But I am very optimistic. We are losing seven to zero and I am one of those who says: “Team, we are going to win”.

According to his futsal team with deputies from Congress and that none of them is from JxCat.

From the outset, I would put myself on the bench. When things work is when you have the best by your side. And the best are in Catalonia, not in Madrid. I feel bad, I couldn’t make the team for you.

In football progress is made on equal terms. Is it also necessary to advance in Congress?

And so much! The hashtag that sums up how some women have come to politics is: “Holy, can you come here, women are missing?”. We always have to make an extra effort to show that we are there because we are worth it. Congress, and politics in general, is sexist. Look at the Finnish Prime Minister… We are normal people, with very important responsibilities. Politics lacks proximity. It is forgotten that in politics from one day to the next you are and you are not. And second: we are public servants. My husband reproaches me for always giving out his cell phone. For me it is the mobile of a public servant, because anyone should be able to ask us for help or ask us. Some politicians look like rock stars.

You were an ERC voter.

I have been very disappointed.

Since when? What happened?

I went with some friends, most of them from ERC, to the Mas conference at the Fòrum (2014), where he proposed that we all go together. The following week, Junqueras gave the response conference, and said no. There I said: door. That these people who put the party ahead would not vote again. In addition, I was on the platform “No vull pay” and I began to interact with politicians. I met Turull and Rull and I thought: these people work like a dog, they are beasts. With “No vull pay”, the only ones who moved were the convergers.

Where have you been on vacation?

in the Empordà. I have enjoyed my family. Spending four days in a row with my children has charged my batteries for a year. And I have read a lot. Now I’m with The Brotherhood, by Niklas Natt och Dag. Also Russia, l’escenari més gran del món, by Manel Alías and I reread The Forest of Foxes, by Arto Paasilinna.

With the fifth anniversary of the attacks of August 17 and 18, you once again demanded an investigation commission.

There are so many unanswered questions… I find it very funny when they say that we are talking about conspiracies. The CNI listened to the cell phones of the murderers five days before… Is that true or not? It is the only country in Europe where a parliamentary investigation commission has not been created when there has been an attack.

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