The Spanish team is before the match of his life. This Sunday, they face England in a historic Women’s World Cup final. The match will take place at the Accor Stadium in Sydney, Australia.
Minutes before leaving the field, the 23 women who defend our colors have received the surprise of their relatives at the hotel. One last hug and words of encouragement from your loved ones to achieve the dream of an entire country: lift the world champions cup.
The trio of veterans of the National Team
Alexia Putellas, Jennifer Hermoso and Irene Paredes are the three players who have played in the last three World Championships (2015, 2019 and 2023).
Alexia Putellas, the winner of two Ballon d’Ors and a player for FC Barcelona, arrived at the World Cup after a serious injury to the anterior cruciate ligament, but that has not stopped her from getting minutes in the matches of this championship. Her relationship with soccer began when she was a child. At just seven years old, her parents enrolled her in Sabadell, thus achieving something unusual since the club only accepted eight-year-old girls.
Unfortunately, when Alexia turned 18, her father Jaume Putellas, passed away. “I do everything for him, the union that I have had with him since I was a child in relation to football has been very strong and when this misfortune happened I decided to take one more step in everything and in the end I use that energy that he gives me every day to be better. I feel that it gives me energy, there are bad, hard moments and I hold onto that to keep going,” said the athlete in an interview. At her side, however, his mother is always supporting him, Eli Segura; his sister Alba; and his girlfriend, the representative of influencers Olga Rios.
Jenni Beautiful He has already won seven leagues, five Queen’s Cups, one French Cup, one Spanish Super Cup and one Champions League. Since she was little, she played soccer with the children in the Carabanchel park and she still considers herself a neighborhood player.
Her love for the beautiful game comes through her grandfather, who was a goalkeeper for Atlético de Madrid, a team with which she made her debut at the age of 12. She always gets emotional when she talks about him and every goal she scores she dedicates to him. All of her classmates point to her as the authentic DJ of the locker room.
Irene Paredes He is the voice of experience: fifteen years in the football elite, one Champions League, two Spanish leagues and one French league, a finalist for the Ballon d’Or in 2021, and the best defense in Europe on several occasions.
In addition to being a benchmark in the field, she is a great defender of LGTBI rights. She is married to the former field hockey player Lucia Ybarra and both are mothers of a child, Mateowhich nation in 2021.
