Aitana Bonmatí achieved the Golden Ball 2023 this Monday, because of what happens to her teammate in the list of winners Alexia Putellaswhich had won the two previous editions.

Bonmatí, 25, received the award from the world number one in tennis, Serbian Novak Djokovic. Fifth in the last edition, Aitana was chosen as the best player of the last World Cup and she scored 21 goals and gave 23 passes in the 45 games played.

Aitana indicated that “football is a collective sport” and that is why she wanted to share the award with the rest of her teammates: “Without the titles won I would not be here.”

The player remembered all her clubs, Rivas and Cubellas, but especially Barcelona, ​​which was represented at the gala by the president, Joan Laporta, whom she thanked for “the commitment” to women’s football.

The Argentinian Lionel Messi this Monday he got his eighth Ballon d’Orby surpassing the French Kylian Mbappé and to Norwegian Erling Haaland.

The footballer of Inter Miami He becomes the first winner of the award created in 1956 who does not play in Europe. Messi, 36, won the award thanks to his contribution to Argentina’s victory in the World Cup in Qatar.

Lionel Messi, Ballon d’Or 2023. Photo: EFE

Jude Bellingham, Emiliano Martínez and Erling Haaland they take the Kopa, Yashin Trophies and Gerd MullerMeanwhile he Manchester City and Barçaelected best clubs of 2023

Source: Eitb

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