Alexis Mac Allister Faces Six Women’s Stories in Muchachas
alexis mac allister is part of the Argentina national-team circle reflected in Muchachas, the documentary miniseries that follows six women linked to players from the squad. The project reached public view hours before the 2026 World Cup begins, after two years of work and filming across several cities.
Pía Iezzi and Muchachas
Pía Iezzi, the executive producer, said the project began in a simple conversation: "En un café con Lu, pensando en qué podíamos hacer juntas. Las dos estamos muy metidas en el mundo de la producción y las personalidades, las figuras, las celebridades". The series then grew into a two-year production that followed its subjects from the Copa América to the buildup for the tournament starting now.
The six women featured are Valentina Cervantes, Agustina Gandolfo, Emilia Ferrero, Muriel López Benítez, Sabrina Di Marzo, and Agustina Bacerano. Cervantes is Enzo Fernández’s partner, Gandolfo is Lautaro Martínez’s wife, Ferrero is Julián Álvarez’s girlfriend, López Benítez is Lisandro Martínez’s partner, Di Marzo is Ángel Correa’s wife, and Bacerano is Germán Pezzella’s ex-wife.
Homes, matches, and travel
The cameras went into their homes, followed them to matches during the Copa América, and stayed through the pre-match period and the celebrations afterward. Iezzi said, "Las acompañamos en la Copa América. Estuvimos con ellas en todos los partidos. Las acompañamos en la previa" and also, "Las acompañamos cuando los saludan a ellos post partido".
Production also traveled to Milan, Manchester, New York, and Madrid to record the women in the cities where they live. That gave the series a wider map than a standard football documentary, shifting the focus from stadium touchlines to the routines that sit around them.
Routines around Argentina
Iezzi said the women experience matches with "muchos nervios" and that most arrive with family support close by, including parents, friends, and cousins. She added that one woman always wears the same shirt and never washes it, a match-day habit that fits the series’ interest in rituals rather than polished public images.
She also said, "La verdad que no. Todas muestran a sus hijos, todas hablan de sus complicaciones, porque ninguna muestra que viven en Disney, porque no es así". That line draws the sharpest edge in Muchachas: it places parenting, travel, and family pressure in the foreground of a story usually told through the men on the pitch.
For viewers, the series is built around six women and the private logistics that come with football’s biggest stage. The project’s reach across Europe and the United States, and its focus on the period from the Copa América to the 2026 World Cup, gives those routines a public space just as the tournament begins.
