After leading last season’s Barça women’s team to a historic treble, Alèxia Putellas also completed the triplet of individual awards: The Barça captain has added FIFA’s ‘The Best’ to the Ballon d’Or and the UEFA Best Player of the Year award. Mollet’s midfielder, beating her teammate Jenni Hermoso and Australian Samantha Kerr, is the face of the growth and rise of women’s football in Spain.
In August, Alèxia was named the best midfielder and player of the year at UEFA and in November she joined the select Barça club that won the Ballon d’Or with the Barça shirt: Luis Suárez Miramontes, Cruyff, Stoichkov, Rivaldo, Ronaldinho and Messi.
The team in charge continues not only to count its matches by victories but also continues to break down barriers for women’s soccer. The last one, to hang the ‘sold out’ sign at the Camp Nou for the Champions League match against Madrid, in which it will be Alexia’s second match at the stadium where she went as a fan as a child. “When I was little, I didn’t even have a chance to be a football professional,” she said in a recent interview.
No Barça in the eleven
The awards for the best coaches went to Chelsea: Thomas Tuchel in men’s teams and Emma Hayes in females. Despite the fact that Barça crushed the ‘blues’ in the final of the Women’s Champions League by 0-4, the coach Lluís Cortés it has gone empty. There was also no Barça representative in the ideal women’s eleven. There weren’t any in the men’s either, where Messi and Haaland were, past and who knows if Barça’s future.
The gala also honored the Chelsea goalkeeper. Edward Mendy, to the goalkeeper of Olympique de Lyon, Christiane Endleral, and also gave the ‘clean play’ award to the Danish national team for his reaction when Eriksen had a heart attack on the pitch during the European Championship.
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