Levante and Barça put everything on their side to make the final a great party. A spectacle that Butarque fans and all those who followed the game on television enjoyed. Sánchez Vera’s team did not disappoint and went after the Blaugrana without fear and determination. He could have done well, but Barça is very much Barça and one after another, he was plugging them to make it clear that this year they are going for the poker of titles that no one has achieved before.
“We have started well with this title. It will be difficult to win the four titles, but we are going to give everything to achieve it,” said the MVP of the match, the Blaugrana Caroline Graham Hansen.
Granotas and Blaugrana met expectations, but the effort was not shared. Once again the Spanish Federation once again demonstrated enormous shortcomings in the organization of a tournament. Butarque recorded a poor entry, largely a consequence of the short notice with which the venue of the matches was announced and the match had to be interrupted on several occasions at the request of the players because the balls were not properly inflated. All nonsense.
Nor has Spain being the current world champion served to improve the financial prizes that the Federation grants to the champions and Barça earned 25,000 euros, the same as last year, for winning the Super Cup.
This time there were no camping tables and self-distribution of medals, as in last year’s embarrassing edition and there were many authorities who traveled to Leganés. Even two stages full of personalities, a large red carpet and a lot of confetti as proof that no one wanted to repeat the sad images of last year.
The final was attended by the acting president of the Spanish Federation, Pedro Rocha, and the Minister of Sports, Pilar Alegría, who was in charge of presenting the trophy to captain Marta Torrejón. The senior coach, Montse Tomé, was also in the box, and at Barça, president Joan Laporta and the director responsible for women’s football, Xavi Puig, led the club’s expedition, which was joined before the match by all the injured players: Mapi León, Alexia, Rolfö and Jana Fernàndez, to lift the first title of 2024. The one that can open the way to lift a historic poker: “It is closer because we have already won one, but each title has a lot of work, training, trips, matches… it is very hard and you have to go step by step,” Giráldez warned.