Back Alèxia Putellas i Segura AN أليكسيا بوتياس Arabic اليكسيا بتيلاس ARZ Alexia Putellas AST الکسیا پوتیاس AZB Alèxia Putellas i Segura Catalan Alexia Putellas Czech Alexia Putellas Danish Alexia Putellas German Αλέξια Πουτέλιας Greek
 Putellas with Barcelona in 2019 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Alexia Putellas Segura[1] | ||
| Date of birth | 4 February 1994[1] | ||
| Place of birth | Mollet del Vallès, Spain[2] | ||
| Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)[1] | ||
| Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Barcelona | ||
| Number | 11 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 2001–2005 | Sabadell | ||
| 2005–2006 | Barcelona | ||
| 2006–2010 | Espanyol | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2010–2011 | Espanyol | 25 | (3) |
| 2011–2012 | Levante | 34 | (15) |
| 2012– | Barcelona | 281 | (126) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2006–2008 | Catalonia U14 | ||
| 2008–2010 | Catalonia U16 | ||
| 2009–2011 | Spain U17 | ||
| 2011–2013 | Spain U19 | 20 | (13) |
| 2012– | Spain | 104 | (28) |
| 2014– | Catalonia | 3 | (1) |
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 21 May 2023 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 26 July 2023 | |||
Alexia Putellas Segura (born 4 February 1994) is a Catalan professional footballer. She plays as a midfielder for Barcelona, whom she captains, and for the Spain women's national football team.[3] Before this, she played for Espanyol and Levante, and she has represented Catalonia. By 2022, she had won all the major awards available to a European player, both individually and with her club. People widely consider her the best female footballer in the world right now and one of the greatest of all time. In 2022, a football reporter named Asif Burhan mentioned how her dedication to the sport has changed women's football.[4] She has been playing for Barcelona since 2012, after spending most of her younger years with Espanyol. With Barcelona, she has achieved a lot: seven league titles, seven Copas de la Reina, and two UEFA Women's Champions League trophies. In the 2020-21 season, she played a key role in helping Barcelona win the Champions League and two other major titles for the first time in their history. In recognition of her outstanding performance, she won several awards in 2021, including UEFA Women's Player of the Year, Ballon d'Or Féminin, and The Best FIFA Women's Player - a feat that no one had accomplished before in a single year.[5]
As of 2022, she's the second player with the most appearances for Barcelona, just behind Melanie Serrano. She's also the second-highest all-time scorer for the club, after Jennifer Hermoso.[6] Moreover, she holds the record for the most appearances for Spain with 104 caps, surpassing Marta Torrejón's previous record of 90 caps in 2021.[7]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "List of Players – 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup" (PDF). Fédération Internationale de Football Association. Archived (PDF) from the original on 10 April 2016. Retrieved 18 June 2015.
- ↑ "Alexia profile". FC Barcelona. Archived from the original on 29 June 2015. Retrieved 27 June 2015.
- ↑ Alexia Putellas signs for FC Barcelona. Archived 23 January 2013 at Archive.today futfem.com, 10/07/12
- ↑ Burhan, Asif. "Intimate Documentary On Alexia Putellas To Premiere On Amazon Prime Video". Forbes. Retrieved 2022-11-28.
- ↑ UEFA.com (2022-10-17). "How brilliant is UEFA and Ballon d'Or award winner Alexia Putellas?". UEFA.com. Retrieved 2022-10-17.
- ↑ "Jenni Hermoso y Alexia, con el récord goleador a tiro". fcbarcelona.com. FC Barcelona. 29 May 2020. Archived from the original on 24 June 2021. Retrieved 7 June 2021.
- ↑ Calaff, Àlex (2022-02-09). "Barça Femenino | Alexia Putellas iguala a Vicky Losada en partidos oficiales con el Barça". Sport (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-04-03.