Mathieu Warnier, media365: published on Saturday September 27, 2025 at 8:45 p.m.
If it still struggles to achieve after winning a third consecutive golden ball, Aitana Bonmati assured wanting to continue to evolve at the highest level in the coming years as much with FC Barcelona as the Spanish selection.
Aitana Bonmati does not hide it, she feels “privileged”. Indeed, it evolves in a professional female section of FC Barcelona which did not exist during her childhood. Member of the Blaugrana club for fourteen years, the native of Sant Pere de Ribes brought her a third consecutive golden ball on Monday. A performance that only Michel Platini and Lionel Messi have been able to achieve in the past and which surprises it itself. “I don’t really realize everything that happens to me,” she said in an interview with the magazine France Football. If I had been told when I was seven years old and I started playing football that we would have an interview in 2025 with my three golden balls … I would never have dared to imagine it. “Performance that gives Aitana Bonmati” a certain responsibility “, that of being” an example “for the young generations. If she has entrusted in her biography to prefer to think about what she can still accomplish and not to what she has already succeeded, the Spanish international does not project herself on the five trophies won by Cristiano Ronaldo or the record of eight detained by Lionel Messi.
Bonmati and the example Messi
“It’s not something I think about. Everyone draws their way and I don’t have to compare myself to them, she concedes. They are fantastic players. Leo Messi is the best footballer in history and I very much doubt that anyone who is able to reproduce what he has achieved. “What Bonmati has wanted to do is staying at the highest level as much as possible, saying that” the difficulty is not to get above, but to maintain it, for many years “. And for that, she sees in “La Pulga” an example to follow. “I like the mentality that he has since insecaster, she also characterizes me, even if it can be exhausting to give everything to be the best, constantly, without weakening,” she says in this interview. Considering itself “both as an old but also as always young”, the Barça midfielder “still has a lot to give” within a club which has now won five of the seven female gold balls given since the creation of the trophy in 2018. “This simply shows that Barça and the Spanish selection have carried out exceptional work,” summarizes Aitana Bonmati.
Bonmati: “Envy always comes back”
“If we look at the last finals, in a club as in a national team, we were almost always there,” she adds. Sometimes we win, sometimes we lose. The important thing is not only to lift the trophy, it is to reach this level, to remain regular. A ceremony that also saw Vicky Lopez win the Kopa Trophy for best young people of the season. Asked about what differentiates their two generations, the triple Ballon d’Or sees young people “more impatient” but also “very sure of themselves”. “They want immediate results and sometimes find it difficult to accept a certain process,” she concedes. However, everything worth requires time and work. “While she has in her record all the possible trophies or almost, Aitana Bonmati claims to be hungry for titles, she who lost the final of the last euro against England, even if” replay the same terrains, the same trips, it may seem repetitive “. “The desire always comes back,” she notes to conclude. What motivates me are the big events: the female Champions League, the World Cup. These are the challenges that push me to continue and progress. It will therefore be necessary to count on her to get a fourth Ballon d’Or in 2026.
