There's life beyond Barça. This is what Ari Mingueza (Santa Perpetua de Mogoda, 2003) has learned after three years at Granada. The Catalan midfielder followed in the footsteps of her brother, Óscar Mingueza – who had swapped Barcelona for Vigo – and tried a new adventure in the First Division. "I left because I saw a huge bottleneck in the first team and I felt I had to leave Barça. Perhaps if I had stayed, the opportunity would have come here, because in the last two years they've had to let go of a lot of players from the youth academy, but I think everything happens for a reason and now I'm very happy," the player explains to ARA. But it was a decision in which Óscar played an important role. "I was afraid because I had never left home, I had been here all my life and it was very difficult for me to take the step. I talked to him and he told me that life wasn't over at Barça and that opening doors now could open more for me in the future," she recalls.