Barcelona. The 2-time Ballon d’Or winner and captain of FC Barcelona, Alexia Putellas, renewed her contract till 2026, the Spanish membership introduced this Tuesday.
“FC Barcelona and Alexia Putellas have reached an settlement for the continuity of the Barça captain for 2 extra seasons, till June 30, 2026, with the choice of a 3rd season,” Barça reported in a press release.
A figurehead of the Barça ladies’s workforce, the 30-year-old participant from the Catalan city of Mollet del Vallés arrived on the membership in 2012 after coaching within the Sabadell and Espanyol youth groups.
Since then, the Barça midfielder has develop into the participant with essentially the most targets within the membership’s historical past, with a complete of 189, and aspires this Saturday so as to add a brand new title to the 29 she has gained with Barça: the Champions League, whose closing is performed in Bilbao towards Olympique Lyon.
It will be the third ladies’s Champions League for the membership and for Putellas, who has performed a complete of 424 video games for Barça – she is the third participant with essentially the most video games, behind Marta Torrejón (431) and Melanie Serrano (517) -.
As well as, he was a part of the Spanish workforce that gained the World Cup in 2023.
Putellas was solely in a position to play a couple of minutes in his workforce’s victory in that match, after having been away from the enjoying area for a yr as a result of a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his knee.
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– 2024-05-28 19:00:01
