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 tremendous kind for membership and nation the next 12 months, profitable each attainable trophy at membership stage final season as Barca secured a historic quadruple.
She was additionally a part of the Spain facet that adopted up their World Cup success by profitable the primary version of the Girls’s Nations League, scoring within the ultimate towards France.
Bonmati’s success sees her comply with membership and worldwide team-mate Alexia Putellas in profitable back-to-back Ballons d’Or.
However having gained 23 trophies in her time with Barca’s senior facet, putting her eighth within the all-time rating for many titles with the Spanish membership, Bonmati nonetheless needs extra.
“What are my desires? I all the time say that what makes me be right here and what makes the group win medals is our mindset,” she mentioned.
“So long as we proceed to be bold and hold pushing and combating, we are going to proceed to win titles.”
“I’m so proud to be part of Barcelona – it’s a singular and fantastic membership,” Bonmati added.
“I’m so grateful as a result of the membership has given me all the pieces since I used to be 14, and I hope to maintain profitable 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 the US.
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 ladies’s recreation. Me and my household are very proud,” Hayes mentioned.
“I perceive how difficult our work is. I really feel a little bit embarrassed as a result of we’re in a group recreation.
“I’ve been so honoured to teach such unimaginable individuals at Chelsea and the US.”
Nicely-deserved honor for our head coach!
Big congrats to Emma Hayes on profitable the Ballon d’Or because the 2024 Girls’s Coach of the 12 months after an unimaginable 12 months of accomplishments! pic.twitter.com/7s7LkJLf5E
— U.S. Girls’s Nationwide Soccer Workforce (@USWNT) October 28, 2024