A few days ago, Aitana Bonmatí, chosen as UEFA’s best player after her spectacular 2022-2023 season, received a loving tribute in her hometown, San Pere de Ribes, who wanted to celebrate with the Barcelona midfielder her successes with the club and also the achievement of the first World Cup in the history of Spanish women’s football.
Aitana, favorite to win the next Ballon d’Or, was in charge of inaugurating a soccer field with her name. “When I started playing I was six years old and I was the only girl. I have had many fights because I am a woman. From insults to coming to blows too. “Who would have told me that today this field would carry my name,” reflected the player who took advantage of the day to film an episode of Salvados in which she reviews her career, talks about her first steps in the world of soccer and highlights the need that the players to vindicate themselves after the outbreak of the Rubiales case.
“Finally we have a loudspeaker, we reach homes and we have been heard. We are not asking, much less to be paid the same as men, we are asking for decent conditions, we are talking about the professional women’s First Division and in most things the only thing that has changed is putting the professional in front of us,” points out the midfielder in a preview of the program that It airs this Sunday, October 15 at 10:40 p.m.
Aitana also highlights the distrust of the players with the RFEF throughout this time, pointing out that “I believe that the people in the Rubiales assembly applauded him out of pressure and fear when he said he would not resign. “It is not a very safe environment,” he points out. He also responds with a skeptical “not really” to whether the players expected more support from the players.
The chapter, which deals with the achievements achieved by the women’s team on a social level, has voices from other athletes such as Ona Carbonell or Carolina Marín who express their support for the demands of the Spanish internationals.
