Vicky López

Youth football

López' earliest experience with a club was playing as a centre-back in a 7-a-side girls' football team, C.D. Sport Villa, based in Vallecas. Around the same time that she began playing in girls' football teams, she was approached by Alba Mellado, who captained Madrid CFF and coached some of their girls' youth sections. Mellado attempted to convince López to join Madrid CFF's youth ranks, but she and her parents wanted to keep her on the same team with her friends. She played at Sport Villa for half a season before her father pulled her out of the club, as she was not doing well in school and was getting into fights with her brother; she was not allowed to play football for half a year, during which time she took up horse riding. After this, López went to a summer training camp for Rayo Vallecano where she was coached by footballer Paloma Lázaro, who wanted her to join Rayo's youth ranks. She ultimately went to Madrid CFF.

Madrid CFF

Youth, 2015–21

Following a summer training camp, López planned to join Rayo Vallecano's youth section but changed her mind after meeting Madrid CFF's Mellado again, on a summer holiday in Benidorm. Mellado was accompanied by Madrid CFF's president, Alfredo Ulloa, and goalkeeper, Paola Ulloa, and had been wearing a Rayo shirt, which caught López's attention. Though López's parents again refused her joining the club, Mellado was allowed to spend the next few days with the family, bonding with López and…

Youth

López competed in multiple youth tournaments with Spain's under-17 national team, including both the 2022 and 2023 U-17 Euro and the 2022 U-17 World Cup, the latter of which she won. In the 2022 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship, Spain finished as runners-up after losing the final on penalties to Germany. López had provided the assist for Spain's equaliser in the final, but missed the fifth penalty in the shoot-out. During the tournament she scored one goal, in a 4–0 win over Norway in the group stage. The result qualified Spain U-17 for the 2022 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup as one of the favourites, a tournament they won. López played in each of Spain's group stage matches, and assisted Spain's only goal in their final group stage match, a 1–0 win over China. Finishing second in their group behind Colombia, Spain had an unfavourable draw and played their quarterfinal against Japan; López scored both of Spain's late goals in a 2–1 comeback victory to progress, her only goals in the tournament. Spain defeated Germany in their semi-final and Colombia in the final, with López awarded the Golden Ball as the tournament's best player. Asked about the victory afterwards, López reflected that the U-17 World Cup was "the lowest level title"; ESPN opined that this was a sign of both López' ambition and her familiarity with the game's elite, as she already trained with the first team of Barcelona, considered the best team in the world. Though she did not have a prolific…

Victoria López Serrano Felix was born on 26 July 2006 in the Vallecas neighborhood of Madrid to Jesús López Serrano Pérez and Joy Felix. Her father is Spanish and her mother was Nigerian. Her mother was a business owner in López's early childhood but was forced to close the family business due to the 2008 financial crisis. López has an older brother who she would often play football with starting at age 4, and as she got older, she joined organised girls' teams and played against girls that were four years older than her. López's mother died from a brain tumour in 2018, when López was 11 years old. As her mother was spending long periods in the hospital near the end of her life, Madrid CFF's president and the club's players helped take López to and from training, as her father was not able to. As a frequent goal celebration, she will often look up and point to the sky after scoring in remembrance of her mother.

As of 2023, López has a hidden passion for horse riding and is completing her Bachillerato científico.