"Gwendolyne" (Spanish pronunciation: [ɡwendoˈlin], sometimes spelt "Gwendoline") was the Spanish entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1970, performed in Spanish by Julio Iglesias. The song is a ballad, with both music and lyrics by Iglesias himself, written about his first girlfriend, the titular Gwendolyne, a French girl whom he met at the age of 20 while still a law student and a goalkeeper for Spanish football team Real Madrid. In 1963, Iglesias was involved in a near-fatal car accident, which ended his football career, left him in rehabilitation for considerable time and indirectly led him to start learning the guitar, as a means of physical therapy.