When she asks for equality, she is not talking about wages but about equalizing working conditions with her male colleagues. Alexia Putellas, the best soccer player on the planet, has raised her voice to follow a thread that in recent times has intensified in women’s sports with the lack of professional resources and poor management as a backdrop.
The players claim to be treated as professionals and not as amateur athletes. “It is important to improve the conditions of the soccer players, rest, travel, the surfaces on which they play to reduce serious injuries. It is recent that the players have begun to become professional, and there has barely been time to carry out studies and learn a little more about the body of the soccer players. It is clear that it is a different body from that of a man. I think these are things that need to be improved”, criticizes the two-time Ballon d’Or winner in an interview with FIFPRO.
The captain of Barcelona, who returned to the pitch last Sunday after suffering an injury to the anterior cruciate ligament in her left knee on the eve of the Euro Cup in July 2022, sets an example for her club in treating the players and in his commitment to the women’s team. «80 or 85% of the clubs have a professional structure behind them, they also have the men’s team in the professional category. Then there are some clubs that do not have that support and of course they must be helped and advised by institutions, the Government… », she explains. «Anyone who is consistent will praise what Barça has done. She has believed and led not only with that, but she wants to continue increasing investment and helping soccer players to really be what we all want to be”, the Barca midfielder deepens.
A few months before the start of the World Cup in Australia and New Zealand, which will be held from July 20 to August 20, several soccer players are standing up to their federations, criticizing the lack of conditions with which to develop. “The problem in women’s football does not only affect Spain,” the Barcelona star recently said in another interview with beIN Sports. “It is exhausting to have to constantly demand improvements to be able to perform better,” she criticized.
A record Barça
Since he landed at the club in July 2012 from Levante, he has won 15 titles with the elastic of the team currently led by Jonatan Giráldez: seven Leagues, six Queen’s Cups, two Spanish Super Cups and one Champions League. Collective awards to which must be added a handful of individual distinctions, including two Ballon d’Ors, two The Best awards for the best player in the world and two other UEFA awards for the best soccer player in Europe. She was also recently crowned at the National Sports Awards as the best Spanish athlete of 2021. The one from Mollet del Vallès arrives just in time to play the Champions League final in Eindhoven on June 3 against Wolfsburg. On the way to the final and already recovered after nine months out, the player will play the last four remaining games in the women’s league, where her team is still without a rival, a defeat in the last four seasons: a 4-3 that Atlético de Madrid entered two seasons ago, on June 1, 2021. An abyss separates Barça from the rest of the Spanish teams.
Barcelona Femenino last year broke a 23-year attendance record for a women’s match set at 90,195 in the 1999 World Cup final. female. “It was amazing, it was one of the best days of my life,” she admitted. «What we experienced was incredible and I hope it continues to be so; that it is only the beginning of this idyll of the Camp Nou with our team and the Champions League and with the fans and that we continue to win,” Putellas predicted.
2023-05-03 11:06:25
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