Quebec girl invited by Real Madrid to play soccer in Spain
CTV
Eva Labrie Fabricio is about to live the dream of her lifetime after being invited to the Real Madrid international soccer camp.
Eva Labrie Fabricio, 14, is about to live the dream of her lifetime -- walking onto the pitch at the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium in Madrid.
"As a baby, I always loved to play with the ball. I was that little athletic baby," she said. "I never played with Barbies. It was always soccer balls, or basketballs."
She's been playing soccer since the age of four and is currently part of an intensive soccer program at École secondaire de Neufchâtel near Quebec City.
"I love to dribble with the ball to show my talent to others. It makes me forget my problems," said Fabricio, adding her natural love for the sport comes from her Brazilian blood. "I was born with it, you know, it's in my heart. I can't just wake up one day and say, 'I don't like football anymore.'"
Last summer, Fabricio was invited to participate in a camp led by coaches from the Real Madrid Academy in Quebec -- one of the few girls to do so.
"I had to show them [the boys] that I wasn't intimidated by them," she told CTV News. "It's something that motivated me to be better, to show them that I'm good... Some boys ended up on the floor because of me. It was really incredible."
