In her first term there she helped Barca win the league and cup double, winning the award for player of the match in the final of the latter competition.Sometimes, the only way to get noticed is to be controversial, to be out of the ordinary. She then headed south for a season at Valencia-based club Levante before returning “home” in July 2012, signing for Barcelona just two months after her father’s death. “That’s where things got serious… But you couldn’t envisage, with all one’s power, to make a living from football,” she said.Īfter less than a year with “her” outfit, she moved across town to Espanyol and made her first-team debut in 2010 before losing to Barca in the final of the Copa de la Reina. So, with her parent’s insistence, she joined Sabadell before being signed by Barca’s academy. “My mum had enough of me coming home with bruises on my legs, so she signed me up at a club so that I stopped playing during break-time,” Putellas said last year. She started playing the sport in school, against boys. Her name was engraved in the club’s history from that day forward, but her story started much earlier. GABRIEL BOUYS / POOL / AFPĮxactly 21 years later she became the first woman in the modern era to score in the stadium, against Espanyol. Putellas plays as a striker for Barça and Spain. Unlike the men’s side, Barca’s women swept the board last term with the 27-year-old, who wears “Alexia” on the back of her shirt, at the forefront, months before Lionel Messi’s emotional departure.Īttacker Putellas, who turns 28 in February, spent her childhood less than an hour’s car journey from the Camp Nou and she made her first trip to the ground from her hometown of Mollet del Valles, for the Barcelona derby on January 6, 2000. The players left little to the imagination in their football-themed pictures.Īlexia Putellas grew up dreaming of playing for Barcelona and after clinching the treble of league, cup and Champions League last season, her status as a women’s footballing icon was underlined as she claimed the Ballon d’Or on Monday. See photos of the German players posing for Playboy here The hosts also got in on the act last month when players from Germany’s womens league posed for Playboy. “We will try to get more attention through our success,” she said with an eye on Tuesday’s match against Germany in Möchengladbach. “Women’s football here has developed well and already taken a step further than in France.”īut Thiney said it was important the French players now back up the attention-seeking pictures off the pitch with success on the field. ![]() The French star also praised hosts Germany, who have won the last two World Cups, where she says the women’s game is far more advanced than in her country. ![]() “We wanted to provoke and to generate some discussion.” “The pictures have come out really nice and I really like them,” Thiney told Bild. The trio posed for the pictures under the motto: “Is this how we should show up before you come to our games?”įresh from their 4-0 hammering of Canada last week, in which Thiney scored twice and Thomis also netted, the trio said they want to draw attention to their sport and create some debate of the women’s game. Gaetine Thiney, 25, plus Elodie Thomis, 24, and Corine Franco, 27, said they posed provocatively for the pictures which appear in Sunday’s edition of Bild to spark controversy and generate publicity.
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