Aitana Bonmatí has taken the ladies’s soccer scene by storm over the previous few years, changing into some of the vital and decisive gamers for each FC Barcelona and Spain’s nationwide group. The midfielder has now made historical past once more by successful the 2025 Girls’s Ballon d’Or, becoming a member of an unique membership alongside Lionel Messi and a French legend.
With the UEFA Girls’s Champions League ultimate that includes Barcelona vs. Arsenal, and the UEFA Girls’s EURO 2025 ultimate between Spain and England, the highest 10 nominees have been dominated by gamers from these two nations. Because the rankings have been revealed, Bonmatí and Mariona Caldentey emerged because the frontrunners, with legend Andrés Iniesta asserting Bonmatí because the winner.
With this crowning, Aitana Bonmatí turns into solely the third participant in soccer historical past to win the Ballon d’Or three consecutive years. The feat was beforehand achieved by simply two gamers: France legend Michel Platini (1983, 1984, 1985) and Lionel Messi (2009, 2010, 2011).
France Soccer has been awarding the Ballon d’Or to girls’s soccer gamers since 2018, whereas the boys’s award has a for much longer historical past, courting again to 1956 with Stanley Matthews as the primary winner. Regardless of the shorter historical past for ladies, Bonmatí’s influence on the present sport underscores her consistency and elite degree at simply 27 years outdated.
Lionel Messi of Barcelona receives the FIFA Ballon d’Or 2011 trophy on January 9, 2012 in Zurich, Switzerland.
With the 2025 award, Bonmatí additionally turns into the lady with essentially the most Ballon d’Or awards in historical past, surpassing her Barcelona teammate Alexia Putellas, who received in 2021 and 2022. She now sits on the prime of the ladies’s sport, very like Messi does within the males’s sport together with his eight awards.
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Regardless of not successful the WUCL or the Girls’s EURO, Bonmatí was nonetheless extensively considered one of many prime contenders. The midfielder admitted that the 2025 version was notably aggressive.
On stage, the Barcelona star needed to improvise her speech. “Third time in a row and I don’t actually know what else to say, the theater is really spectacular. Due to France Soccer. This might have gone to any of you, and if I might share it, I might. It’s been an ideal 12 months of a really excessive degree, and the teammates right here additionally deserve it,” the Spanish midfielder highlighted.
After thanking her idols for what she’s discovered from them, together with Iniesta, she concluded by acknowledging her shut ones: “It’s nice that the awards have been made equal, we’ve managed to maintain shifting issues ahead. To Barca, my membership, to Joan Laporta, to the employees who struggle day by day to make us higher — all of that is due to their work. Lastly, I can’t neglect my folks, my pals, Cristian Martín, my hometown of Ribes… Thanks.”
