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Nadia Jemez, daughter of former LaLiga manager Paco Jemez, revealed this week that her father prohibited romantic relationships with footballers.
The 24-year-old model has grown up around football for much of her life after her dad enjoyed a 17-year playing career in Spain and picked up 21 caps for his country before going on to manage 12 clubs.
But any hopes of finding a mate within the game were strictly forbidden. Jemez did not disclose the reasoning for her father's commandment but it's not hard to come up with one or two theories.
Perhaps the likes of Luis Enrique, Pep Guardiola and Steve Bruce gave their daughters similar instructions but, unlike Jemez, they were powerless to resist the call. We are not to know.
Here, Mail Sport takes a look at some of the most memorable instances of footballer's daughters who have dated sports stars.
Ferran Torres and Sira Martinez
Barcelona forward Ferran Torres met Luis Enrique's daughter Sira Martinez while playing for Manchester City and the pair began a long-distance relationship before his move to the Catalan giants in 2022.
According to El Nacional, she fell in love with Torres while he played for City and had already been selected by her father to play for the Spanish national team.
Torres was at City between August 2020 and January 2022, making his first senior appearance for his country in a 1-1 draw with Germany a month after he arrived at the Etihad Stadium.
The couple lived together in Barcelona after his £55m move to the LaLiga outfit. During their relationship, Enrique was Torres' national team manager and even joked that his daughter would 'chop off my head' if he did not start the forward at the World Cup.
However, their union was not to last, as the two went their
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