Barcelona Midfielder, Aitana Bonmati has won the Women’s Ballon d’Or, awarded to the best female footballer of 2023.
The midfielder, 25, who won the 2022 UEFA best player, World Cup Golden Ball and 2022 world cup with Spain.
With Barcelona she won Liga F – Spain’s top flight – and the Champions League, and at the World Cup she played a starring role in Spain’s victory.
Bonmati has now become a two-time European champion at club level, dictating play from midfield with her trademark slick passing.
It was a spectacular season for the Spanish playmaker with the Catalan giants and therefore no surprise that she won the accolade of Uefa’s women’s player of the year.
But it was for her country where Bonmati’s excellence made her a global superstar, with the 25-year-old integral to Spain’s World Cup triumph – scoring three goals in the process and being named player of the tournament.
Former greats of the game – including those who were involved in the dominant Spanish men’s team of the 2010s – have led to comparisons with another Spanish great in Andres Iniesta.
