Alexia Putellas

FC Barcelona's Alexia Putellas has become the first woman in history to win the coveted Ballon D'Or award on two occasions. Having won the award last year, ...

Last year, Putellas was the overwhelming winner of the prize, accumulating more than double the points of Jenni Hermoso in second place. It was not awarded in 2020 due to the postponement of top level soccer throughout Europe due to the Covid pandemic. The subsequent operation and rehabilitation means Putellas will be out of the game for up to a year meaning she will miss the majority of the current season. In June she became the first woman from her country to make 100 international appearances. The award comes in spite of Putellas being injured since July and unlikely to play again for the coming months. Nonetheless, Putellas finished as the competition's top scorer with eleven goals in ten appearances, a remarkable achievement for a midfielder, scoring in the quarter-final, semi-final and final.

Putellas retains her title as the world's best women's player after leading Barcelona to another Spanish title, scoring 18 goals in the process. Barça won all ...

Lewandowski, who joined Barcelona from Bayern Munich this summer, came fourth in the men’s ranking and also won the Gerd Müller trophy for the world’s best forward. The men’s judging panel was also reduced from 170 to 100, with 50 judges for the women’s prize. Thibaut Courtois won the Lev Yashin trophy for the world’s best goalkeeper and placed seventh overall, with his Real Madrid teammates Vinícius Júnior and Luka Modric in eighth and ninth place. Manchester City were named club of the year after Pep Guardiola’s side won their fourth Premier League title in five seasons. The 34-year-old scored 27 goals in La Liga and was also the top scorer in the Champions League with 15. Putellas retains her title as the world’s best women’s player after leading Barcelona to another Spanish title, scoring 18 goals in the process.

A lifelong Barcelona fan, in May 2021 she became the first player from her club to lift the UEFA Women's Champions League trophy. And those exploits helped ...

A first senior UEFA Women's EURO appearance, after Spain had waited 16 years to compete at the finals, coming on with 20 minutes to go and scoring the third goal – I have no words to describe how that felt." • Barcelona merely won a domestic double (and the Spanish Super Cup) in 2021/22, losing the UEFA Women's Champions League final to Lyon. • Was named one of Spain's three captains in 2021 as they qualified for UEFA Women's EURO 2022. • In September 2020, Putellas changed her Spain squad number from 11 to 14, usually worn by her friend and team-mate since youth days Virginia Torrecilla, who had been diagnosed with a brain tumour. A lifelong Barcelona fan, in May 2021 she became the first player from her club to lift the UEFA Women's Champions League trophy. She was named final MVP for the third time in her career. • Her youth performances earned Putellas a first senior cap against Denmark in June 2013. • That was just one moment in a spectacular season for Barcelona and Alexia. That season she passed 300 club appearances and was voted the Spanish league's player of the year. Her stalwart status is underlined by the fact she has played in 52 of Barcelona's 56 UEFA Women's Champions League matches all-time to date. "I've known Alexia since she was little, when she started coming to the U16s, and I know she still has room for improvement. Barcelona might have lost their European title the following season but dynamic midfielder Alexia ended up the 11-goal UEFA Women's Champions League Top Scorer, named Player of the Tournament.

Putellas suffered a knee injury ahead of the start of Euro 2022, where Arsenal striker Mead went on to be top scorer and was named player of the tournament as ...

It was a childhood dream for me and all the work I have done, I never gave up,” he said after collecting the 2022 Ballon d’Or. “I am really proud of my journey here. “The whole team has to work in the same way, in the end I have to be in a good position to score the goals and be ready to help my team-mates.”

Barcelona midfielder Alexia Putellas has won the Ballon d'Or Feminin for a second successive year, becoming the first woman to win the award twice since it ...

[Ada Hegerberg.](https://www.espn.co.uk/football/player/_/id/188067/ada-hegerberg) [Megan Rapinoe](https://www.espn.co.uk/football/player/_/id/158775/megan-rapinoe) won it the following year before it was suspended in 2020 because of the pandemic. The Catalan side made history "Without my teammates this would not have been possible," Putellas said after receiving the award. [Putellas was later named UEFA Women's Player of the Year](/football/uefa-womens-champions-league/story/4729802/barcelonas-alexia-putellas-named-uefa-womens-poty-england-boss-sarina-wiegman-crowned-coach-of-the-year) ahead of Mead and [Lena Oberdorf](https://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/287344/lena-oberdorf). [Barcelona](/football/team/_/id/20091/barcelona) midfielder [Alexia Putellas](https://www.espn.co.uk/football/player/_/id/219995/alexia-putellas) has won the Ballon d'Or Feminin for a second successive year, becoming the first woman to win the award twice since it launched in 2018. [Beth Mead](https://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/280982/beth-mead) and Chelsea's [Sam Kerr](https://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/158683/sam-kerr), who were second and third, respectively.