“I hope it doesn’t stay on the record and has continuity”

After Wednesday’s historic Clasico at the Camp Nou, with a world attendance record in women’s football and Barça qualifying for the Champions League semi-finals after endorsing Real Madrid 5-2 and an overall 8-3, one of the protagonists , Aitana Bonmatírecognized this Thursday in the presentation of the MIC Football 2022 to still be “a little lower than the cloud, on a difficult day to assume for everything that happened”. The azulgrana, godmother with Nico Gonzalez of the benchmark international grassroots football tournament, which is celebrating its 20th edition after two years of cancellations due to the pandemic, and which did not hide the fact that “I had to hold back a tear”, she assured “I have no words because it is what I have dreamed of since I was little, to play in a full Camp Nou, and I never would have imagined it” and trusts that Wednesday will be “the day of inflection for the whole world and that it will not remain in the record, but that it will be to stay and there will be continuity”.

Aitana He also highlighted after the party at the Camp Nou that “we are encouraging girls to see that football is not just a sport for men and that after this, girls who do not watch football start playing”. In this sense, she assured that “I want to be a role model for girls and boys, and it is important that children also have female role models so that everything changes in society and they have a more egalitarian image of society.”

Going back to this season’s goals, the one from Sant Pere de Ribes stated that “we dream of winning the second Champions League, why not?”, although she preferred to go “match by match because first there are the semi-finals and our goal is to be in the final”. The Barça midfielder also had time to talk about the men’s first team’s 0-4 win at the Santiago Bernabéu: “It was a full-fledged swim, I hadn’t seen Barça at that level for a long time and it was special, like ‘they’re back’ They are in a very good dynamic, to win and return to the usual style, which is what we culés like”.

Finally, Aitana Bonmatí He also encouraged the participants in the MIC Football 2022 to “enjoy tournaments like this and to dream, because everything is yet to come and those memories remain forever”.

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