Aitana Bonmati mentioned she is aiming to win extra titles with Barcelona after scooping her second Ballon d’Or Feminin award on Monday.
Bonmati gained the 2023 award after serving to her membership triumph within the Spanish prime flight and Girls’s Champions League, together with main Spain to their first Girls’s World Cup.
The Spaniard continued her wonderful type for membership and nation the next 12 months, successful each doable trophy at membership stage final season as Barca secured a historic quadruple.
She was additionally a part of the Spain aspect that adopted up their World Cup success by successful the primary version of the Girls’s Nations League, scoring within the last in opposition to France.
Bonmati’s success sees her observe membership and worldwide team-mate Alexia Putellas in successful back-to-back Ballons d’Or.
However having gained 23 trophies in her time with Barca’s senior aspect, putting her eighth within the all-time rating for many titles with the Spanish membership, Bonmati nonetheless desires extra.
“What are my goals? I at all times say that what makes me be right here and what makes the staff win medals is our mindset,” she mentioned.
“So long as we proceed to be formidable and maintain pushing and preventing, we’ll proceed to win titles.”
“I’m so proud to be part of Barcelona – it’s a singular and great membership,” Bonmati added.
“I’m so grateful as a result of the membership has given me every part since I used to be 14, and I hope to maintain successful titles for them.”
AITANA BONMATI IS THE 2024 WOMEN’S BALLON D’OR!
Again-to-back winner, the Girls’s Ballon d’Or stays in Spain!
Congrats @AitanaBonmati #ballondor @FCBfemeni @UWCL @weuro2025 pic.twitter.com/g4P1Lv5oIl
— Ballon d’Or (@ballondor) October 28, 2024
It was additionally a memorable night for Emma Hayes, who gained the primary Girls’s Johan Cruyff Trophy after her sensational 12 months with Chelsea and america.
Hayes steered Chelsea to a fifth consecutive Girls’s Tremendous League (WSL) title final season, ending her 12-year stint with the Blues on a excessive.
She then guided the USWNT to gold on the Paris Olympics, claiming the seventeenth main honour of her glittering profession.
Hayes was not in attendance on the ceremony however recorded a video message, saying she was “embarrassed” about receiving the award.
“I simply need to say I’m very honoured to be awarded the primary Ballon d’Or for a coach within the girls’s recreation. Me and my household are very proud,” Hayes mentioned.
“I perceive how difficult our work is. I really feel slightly embarrassed as a result of we’re in a staff recreation.
“I’ve been so honoured to teach such unbelievable individuals at Chelsea and america.”
Properly-deserved honor for our head coach!
Enormous congrats to Emma Hayes on successful the Ballon d’Or because the 2024 Girls’s Coach of the Yr after an unbelievable 12 months of accomplishments! pic.twitter.com/7s7LkJLf5E
— U.S. Girls’s Nationwide Soccer Group (@USWNT) October 28, 2024