University vs. Alianza Lima: Meet the twin sisters Xiomara and Xioczana Canales who will face each other in the women's soccer classic | Total Sport | Peruvian soccer

For 20 years, Xiomara and Xioczana Canales share almost everything: the same date of birth, the taste for straight hair, the right-handed profile to handle the ball. Even, they always played on the same team. But this year everything changed. The first decided to defend the colors of Lima Alliance; while the second one stayed with that 'OR' How much he loves. Today (11 a.m.), in Campo Mar, the twin sisters will face each other in the women's soccer classic.

“At the beginning of the year they also called me of academicbut I chose alliance because it suits my study schedules, ”he confesses Xiomara, who is in the fourth year of the career of Medical Technology in Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation; While Xioczana interrupts and reproaches: "He never told me he would go to the other sidewalk, but football is like that."

They touched a ball for the first time thanks to their father. Alex Canales was one of those players who earned respect in the neighborhood with football. And he took them to every championship he went.

Xioczana She was the first to dare to play, despite criticism. When he went out to play with his sister, she liked to attack, face and dribble. So, the only thing left for Xiomara It was to choose a position in defense. Otherwise, the game would not work.

When they started sharing teams, the two became owners of the right wing. They were unstoppable. But now they are separated. They recently met in the first classic. The match ended evenly, but in the duel they had both came out winning the Lima Alliance.

This was the first classic in which Xiomara and Xioczana faced each other. (Video: Lima Alliance / Photo: Capture)

“She knows all my movements and took advantage of that to stop me. For the second time I asked the technician to change my band. I couldn't pass it, ”he says Xioczana.

Today, the house will be divided again. On the one hand the cream shirt; on the other, the blue and white. Of course, and as with the sisters, the rivalry ends when the referee touches the final whistle.

—A classic to be seen—

“We want our family to be in the gallery living the classic with us”, the Channels sisters long for. A longing that not only they have, but all Peruvian soccer players. The ‘U’-Alliance it will be played behind closed doors, like so many games of National Women's Soccer Championship. A problem that comes from years and does not find a solution.

"Unfortunately, we do not have a regulation in what is the tournament regulations that contain some kind of penalty to the club that plays without an audience," he said. Guillermo Echevarría, head of Development of the FPF.

Closed games, fields in poor condition, little diffusion. All the abuses ended up tiring the footballers, who for the past week have been claiming to be treated as the athletes they are. Respect and value is what they demand.

With the hashtag #QueremosSerVistas, women's football has stood up