Alexia Putellas closes the circle with The Best

Now yes. Although 17 days have already passed in 2022 in which he will once again be a contender for all collective and individual awards, Alexia Putellas He finally closes a wonderful 2021 with the last great recognition that he had yet to receive. FIFA, in a Gala that has been online from its Zurich headquarters (Switzerland) due to the coronavirus pandemic, has granted the The Best feminine to the elegant 27-year-old FC Barcelona midfielder, who has won the final vote over two forwards: the Australian Sam Kerr (Chelsea), second, and her teammate, Jennifer Beautiful, third. Aitana Bonmatí it was the sixth and Caroline Graham Hansen, the ninth. the journalist Reshmin Chowdhury and former English footballer Jermaine Jenas presented the Gala at the FIFA headquarters, with its president, Gianni Infantino, acting as host and reading the name of the winner.

The Catalan adds the award to the Golden Ball given to him by France Football in November, UEFA Women’s Player of the Year which he received in August and Globe Soccer who raised in December. It is the reward for the great 2020-21 season completed by FC Barcelona, ​​which won the Champions League, the League and two Queen’s Cups, since the postponed final of the 2019-20 campaign was played in February. was also chosen Best Player by the Catalan Football Federation and was awarded the St. George’s Cross. At a collective level, only the Spanish Super Cup escaped him and at an individual level he lacked the Golden Woman with which Tuttosport awarded his partner Lieke Martens.

Alexia She was the standard-bearer of the praised soccer that her team exhibited not only for her technical quality and her numerous assists, but also for her goalscoring success. In 52 official matches with Barça in the calendar year, from January to December, scored 39 goals. We must add the five goals he has achieved in twelve games with a Spanish team with which he will compete for the European Championship in July 2022 in England. Many of the individual prizes this year just started will be based on that tournament.

Alexia happens in the list of winners of The Best feminine to Carli Lloyd (2016), Lieke Martens (2017), Marta Vieira (2018), Megan Rapinoe (2019) and Lucy Bronze (2020). Martens He already received it with the Barça shirt, although for the European Championship that he won with the Netherlands in 2017 while he still belonged to Rosengard of Sweden. No one has repeated. another challenge for Alexia in 2022.

Surprisingly, in eleven FIFA FIFPRO Barça was not represented or with Alexia Putellas nor with any of his companions. Either Lluís Cortés He won the award for Best Women’s Football Coach, a distinction that went to the Chelsea coach, Emma Hayes, despite his clear 4-0 defeat in the Champions League final against Barça, who was then coaching the Catalan, now the Ukraine coach.

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