Alexia Putellas, who is the winner of the women’s Golden Ball – Corriere.it

It has already exceeded the known limits, Alexia Putellas. For the second year in a row, and it had never happened before, won the women’s Ballon d’Or, an award established in 2018. Despite being younger than the male one (born in 1956) it already has a lot to tell. Only a year ago the striker took the stage with shining eyes and repeated yesterday, Monday 17 October. She dedicated the trophy to her father, who passed away 10 years earlier, when she was only 18 and a fantastic baggage of dreams to try to realize. Since that heartbreaking and painful day, every goal he scores with the Barcelona shirt has a different flavor. “I hope you are very proud of your daughter: wherever you are, this is for you, Dad,” she said.

From those words, from that dedication, only a year has passed. And here she is again, Alexia Putellas, to collect another Golden Ball for the second consecutive time, placing d

come on to the English Beth Mead of Arsenal and the Australian Samantha Kerr of Chelsea. No one had ever achieved such goals. And this is enough to explain why her nickname is “Queen”.

This season Alexia, with the Blaugrana shirt and the captain’s armband, won the Spanish treble, missing an encore in the Champions League by a whisker (3-1 defeat on 21 May against Lyon): Liga, Copa del Re and Supercoppa. And she is recovering from the rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament: “I wonder every day if the dream I am living is real,” she said, excited once again, on stage. «Luis Suarez wrote to me and told me something that I will keep in mind for a long time: this award should not be my goal, but a starting point. A phrase that I take as a source of inspiration to improve myself », she added.

A woman who has been able to achieve important goals. You have been able to climb the top of international football starting from Mollet Del Vallès, a town of just over 52 thousand inhabitants. She landed for the first time on the planet Barcelona in 2005-2006, in the cantera. Then Espanyol and Levante and since 2012 again in Catalonia, in the team for which her father Jaume cheered. Since that return, the 28-year-old has become a Blaugrana symbol, fulfilling the dream of her that she had since childhood. “If a daughter wants to play football, she simply needs to be supported and not blamed. It’s a sport like many others “, his mother said long ago. And here she is, Alexia Putellas. Happy and excited with her second Ballon d’Or.