Alexia Putellas

2022 - 10 - 18

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Alexia Putellas: Barcelona star wins women's Ballon d'Or 2022 ... (Sky Sports)

Putellas has become the first female player to win the Ballon dOr for two years in a row; Arsenal and England forward Beth Mead was voted as runner-up after ...

"Without my team-mates this would not have been possible," said Putellas after picking up the award. England's Beth Mead was the runner-up for the award after guiding the Lionesses to the European Championships title, with Chelsea's Sam Kerr having to settle for third. Putellas has become the first female player to win the Ballon d'Or for two years in a row; Arsenal and England forward Beth Mead was voted as runner-up after guiding the Lionesses to European Championships glory; Chelsea's Sam Kerr finished third

Alexia Putellas Becomes First Spanish-Born Player To Win Ballon D ... (Forbes)

FC Barcelona's Alexia Putellas has become the first woman in history to win the coveted Ballon D'Or award on two occasions. Having won the award last year, ...

Last year, Putellas was the overwhelming winner of the prize, accumulating more than double the points of Jenni Hermoso in second place. It was not awarded in 2020 due to the postponement of top level soccer throughout Europe due to the Covid pandemic. The subsequent operation and rehabilitation means Putellas will be out of the game for up to a year meaning she will miss the majority of the current season. In June she became the first woman from her country to make 100 international appearances. The award comes in spite of Putellas being injured since July and unlikely to play again for the coming months. Nonetheless, Putellas finished as the competition's top scorer with eleven goals in ten appearances, a remarkable achievement for a midfielder, scoring in the quarter-final, semi-final and final.

How brilliant is UEFA and Ballon d'Or award winner Alexia Putellas? (UEFA.com)

A lifelong Barcelona fan, in May 2021 she became the first player from her club to lift the UEFA Women's Champions League trophy. And those exploits helped ...

A first senior UEFA Women's EURO appearance, after Spain had waited 16 years to compete at the finals, coming on with 20 minutes to go and scoring the third goal – I have no words to describe how that felt." • Barcelona merely won a domestic double (and the Spanish Super Cup) in 2021/22, losing the UEFA Women's Champions League final to Lyon. • Was named one of Spain's three captains in 2021 as they qualified for UEFA Women's EURO 2022. • In September 2020, Putellas changed her Spain squad number from 11 to 14, usually worn by her friend and team-mate since youth days Virginia Torrecilla, who had been diagnosed with a brain tumour. A lifelong Barcelona fan, in May 2021 she became the first player from her club to lift the UEFA Women's Champions League trophy. She was named final MVP for the third time in her career. • Her youth performances earned Putellas a first senior cap against Denmark in June 2013. • That was just one moment in a spectacular season for Barcelona and Alexia. That season she passed 300 club appearances and was voted the Spanish league's player of the year. Her stalwart status is underlined by the fact she has played in 52 of Barcelona's 56 UEFA Women's Champions League matches all-time to date. "I've known Alexia since she was little, when she started coming to the U16s, and I know she still has room for improvement. Barcelona might have lost their European title the following season but dynamic midfielder Alexia ended up the 11-goal UEFA Women's Champions League Top Scorer, named Player of the Tournament.

Beth Mead runner-up as Barcelona's Alexia Putellas wins women's ... (Messenger Newspapers)

Putellas suffered a knee injury ahead of the start of Euro 2022, where Arsenal striker Mead went on to be top scorer and was named player of the tournament as ...

It was a childhood dream for me and all the work I have done, I never gave up,” he said after collecting the 2022 Ballon d’Or. “I am really proud of my journey here. “The whole team has to work in the same way, in the end I have to be in a good position to score the goals and be ready to help my team-mates.”

Ballon d'Or Feminin: Barcelona's Alexia Putellas becomes first ... (ESPN Australia)

Barcelona midfielder Alexia Putellas has won the Ballon d'Or Feminin for a second successive year, becoming the first woman to win the award twice since it ...

[Ada Hegerberg.](https://www.espn.com.au/football/player/_/id/188067/ada-hegerberg) [Megan Rapinoe](https://www.espn.com.au/football/player/_/id/158775/megan-rapinoe) won it the following year before it was suspended in 2020 because of the pandemic. The Catalan side made history "Without my teammates this would not have been possible," Putellas said after receiving the award. [Putellas was later named UEFA Women's Player of the Year](/football/uefa-womens-champions-league/story/4729802/barcelonas-alexia-putellas-named-uefa-womens-poty-england-boss-sarina-wiegman-crowned-coach-of-the-year) ahead of Mead and [Lena Oberdorf](https://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/287344/lena-oberdorf). [Barcelona](/football/team/_/id/20091/barcelona) midfielder [Alexia Putellas](https://www.espn.com.au/football/player/_/id/219995/alexia-putellas) has won the Ballon d'Or Feminin for a second successive year, becoming the first woman to win the award twice since it launched in 2018. [Beth Mead](https://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/280982/beth-mead) and Chelsea's [Sam Kerr](https://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/158683/sam-kerr), who were second and third, respectively.

Ballon d'Or 2022: Barcelona midfielder Alexia Putellas retains ... (Eurosport.com)

Putellas beat the likes of Chelsea forward Sam Kerr, Arsenal and England striker Beth Mead and Lyon's Ada Hegerberg to win the most prestigious individual award ...

- 8. - 9. - 19. "I injured my knee at a time I didn't think it could be possible. The truth is a year ago I was able to win this prize. Arsenal strike Beth Mead finished in second while Chelsea's Sam Kerr came in third.

Ballon d'Or ceremony: Alexia Putellas makes history, Real Madrid ... (CNN)

FC Barcelona and Spain star Alexia Putellas retained the Ballon d'Or Féminin on Monday, the award presented to the best women's player of the last year, ...

And to thank everyone involved at the club off the pitch.” Madrid was voted in third, behind Liverpool in second and Manchester City in first – who many fans say play a more attractive style of football. I want to thank the technical staff and the coach as well. She faced stiff competition from the likes of Beth Mead and Lucy Bronze, who both won that competition with England. Rumors last week suggested the 23-year-old was unhappy at PSG and that he was looking for a move away from the club as soon as January, just months after spurning Real Madrid to sign an extension to stay in Paris. “I’m very happy to be back here,” Putellas said when accepting her award.

Beth Mead unlucky not to dethrone Alexia Putellas and win Ballon d'Or (The Guardian)

Putellas may be the better player, but Mead's individual heroics deserved recognition.

The Ballon d’Or is not an award for the best player but the player deemed to have performed best over the previous season. In my mind, Mead edged Putellas for the various individual player of the year awards based on last season but Putellas is, broadly, the better player. Some have questioned the quality of the Spanish league in criticism of Putellas’s win over Mead potentially being based on a lack domestic success, but that is unfair. She beat England’s and Arsenal’s Beth Mead to the award she won by a landslide last year, but it is believed the voting was much tighter. Is she the best player on the planet? “I think we have to talk about it, but also that today is not the day.

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