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 high flight and Ladies’s Champions League, together with main Spain to their first Ladies’s World Cup.
The Spaniard continued her wonderful type for membership and nation the next yr, successful each doable 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 successful the primary version of the Ladies’s Nations League, scoring within the last in opposition to France.
Bonmati’s success sees her observe membership and worldwide team-mate Alexia Putellas in successful 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 goals? I at all times say that what makes me be right here and what makes the workforce win medals is our mindset,” she mentioned.
“So long as we proceed to be formidable and maintain pushing and combating, we are going to proceed to win titles.”
“I’m so proud to be part of Barcelona – it’s a novel and great membership,” Bonmati added.
“I’m so grateful as a result of the membership has given me every little thing since I used to be 14, and I hope to maintain successful titles for them.”
AITANA BONMATI IS THE 2024 WOMEN’S BALLON D’OR!
Again-to-back winner, the Ladies’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 Ladies’s Johan Cruyff Trophy after her sensational yr with Chelsea and the USA.
Hayes steered Chelsea to a fifth consecutive Ladies’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 somewhat embarrassed as a result of we’re in a workforce recreation.
“I’ve been so honoured to educate such unimaginable folks at Chelsea and the USA.”
Effectively-deserved honor for our head coach!
Enormous congrats to Emma Hayes on successful the Ballon d’Or because the 2024 Ladies’s Coach of the 12 months after an unimaginable yr of accomplishments! pic.twitter.com/7s7LkJLf5E
— U.S. Ladies’s Nationwide Soccer Crew (@USWNT) October 28, 2024
