One of the biggest accusations aimed at women’s football is that the players are not good enough and the matches are not as exciting compared to the male equivalent.

But in a social experiment, Brenda Perez smashed those myths after getting disguised as a man – before running rings around the apparently oblivious men.

Brenda, 21, who is a professional player who has featured for Espanyol and Valencia ladies teams in recent years, spent seven hours in make up before kick-off, to become male player Dani Perez.


It included putting on a facial mask, fake stubble and other make up to complete the look, before she entered the pitch in a Spanish amateur match.

Brenda Perez (before and after the transformation (Picture: YouTube)

Perez’s skills dazzled everybody (Picture: YouTube)

Perez makes the big reveal (Picture: YouTube)

The footage was filmed for Spanish TV show El Hormiguero, where Brenda said she wanted to ‘destroy some of the myths’ around women’s football.



In the end she reveals herself as a woman, to the surprise of those who had struggled to mark her during the game.