Alexia Putellas

Alexia Putellas Segura (born 4 February 1994) is a Catalan professional footballer. She plays as a midfielder for Barcelona, whom she captains, and for the Spain women's national football team.Alexia Putellas signs for FC Barcelona.  futfem.com, 10/07/12  Before this, she played for Espanyol and Levante, and she has represented Catalonia. By 2022, she had won all the major awards available to a European player, both individually and with her club. People widely consider her the best female footballer in the world right now and one of the greatest of all time. In 2022, a football reporter named Asif Burhan mentioned how her dedication to the sport has changed women's football. She has been playing for Barcelona since 2012, after spending most of her younger years with Espanyol. With Barcelona, she has achieved a lot: seven league titles, seven Copas de la Reina, and two UEFA Women's Champions League trophies. In the 2020-21 season, she played a key role in helping Barcelona win the Champions League and two other major titles for the first time in their history. In recognition of her outstanding performance, she won several awards in 2021, including UEFA Women's Player of the Year, Ballon d'Or Féminin, and The Best FIFA Women's Player - a feat that no one had accomplished before in a single year.

As of 2022, she's the second player with the most appearances for Barcelona, just behind Melanie Serrano. She's also the second-highest all-time scorer for the club, after Jennifer Hermoso. Moreover, she holds the record for the most appearances for Spain with 104 caps, surpassing Marta Torrejón's previous record of 90 caps in 2021.

 Personal life 
Putellas was really close to her dad. Even though he was sick with heart problems when she played for Levante, he always came to see her games in Valencia. She thought about studying medicine to help him. He died in 2012, just before an important tournament.

When she scores a goal, she points to the sky to remember him. She mostly speaks Catalan, learned Spanish in school when she was young, and started learning English in the 2020s. She has a pet dog named Nala, a Pomeranian, who even has an Instagram account.

She doesn't talk much about her relationships, but she did share on social media about being with her teammate Jennifer Hermoso. They even joined an event called Madrid Pride together. After winning the Champions League in 2023, a video of Putellas meeting her girlfriend in the stands became super popular on TikTok.

Putellas has lots of tattoos. Some have Latin sayings, like "Work conquers all." She also has symbols like a Hand of Fatima and an Eye of Horus, plus a Barcelona tile with "Made in" written on it. She's got a football, the number 112 (combining her first Spain shirt number, 12, and her famous shirt number, 11), and a drawing of her dad holding her as a baby and giving her a football.

 Career statistics 

 Club 

+Appearances and goals by club, season and competitionClubSeasonLeagueCupSupercupUWCLRegionalTotalDivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsEspanyol2009–10Superliga Femenina1000––??102010–1124341––??284Total25341––??294Levante2011–12Primera División3415––––3415Barcelona2012–13Primera División301251–202039132013–1430852–602143112014–1526620–41213482015–16291832–502039202016–17281030–802441142017–1829942–412039122018–19281621–810038182019–2020103122632233182020–213118351172–42262021–22261844211011–42342022–2351000010–61Total2811263418546119148395175Career total3401443819546119148458194

International

+ Appearances and goals by national team and yearYearSpainCataloniaAppsGoalsAppsGoals201381colspan=22014701020151221020169311201714300201894colspan=2201916100202064colspan=22021125colspan=2202274colspan=2202341colspan=2Total1042831

Scores and results list Spain's and Catalonia's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Putellas goal.

+ List of international goals scored by Alexia PutellasNo.DateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetitionSpain goals1  12 July 2013  Linköping Arena, Linköping   3–2 3–2  UEFA Women's Euro 20132  10 February 2015  Pinatar Arena, San Pedro del Pinatar   1–0 2–2  Friendly3  27 October 2015  Sonera Stadium, Helsinki   1–0  2–1  UEFA Women's Euro 2017 qualifying4  24 January 2016  Stadion pod Malim brdom, Petrovac   3–0 7–0  UEFA Women's Euro 2017 qualifying5  8 April 2016  Complexo Desportivo da Covilhã, Covilhã   2–0 4–1  UEFA Women's Euro 2017 qualifying6  15 September 2016  La Ciudad del Fútbol, Las Rozas de Madrid   12–0 13–0  UEFA Women's Euro 2017 qualifying7 30 June 2017 Pinatar Arena, San Pedro del Pinatar  1–0 7–0 Friendly8 3–09  28 November 2017  Estadi de Son Moix, Palma   1–0 4–0  2019 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification10  20 January 2018  Pinatar Arena, San Pedro del Pinatar   1–0 2–0  Friendly11  5 March 2018  AEK Arena – Georgios Karapatakis, Larnaca   2–0 2–0  2018 Cyprus Women's Cup12  7 June 2018  La Condomina, Murcia   2–0 2–0  2019 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification13  8 November 2018  Butarque, Leganés   2–1 3–1  Friendly14  5 April 2019  Estadio Vicente Sanz, Don Benito   1–1 2–1  Friendly15  5 March 2020  Exploria Stadium, Orlando, Florida   1–0 3–1  2020 SheBelieves Cup16  11 March 2020  Toyota Stadium, Frisco, Texas   1–0 1–0  2020 SheBelieves Cup17  23 October 2020  La Cartuja, Seville   4–0 4–0  UEFA Women's Euro 2022 qualifying18  27 November 2020  La Ciudad del Fútbol, Las Rozas de Madrid   7–0 10–0  UEFA Women's Euro 2022 qualifying19  10 June 2021  Santo Domingo, Alcorcón   2–0 3–0  Friendly20  16 September 2021  Tórsvøllur, Tórshavn   4–0 10–0  2023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification21  26 October 2021  Kolos Stadium, Kovalivka   1–0 6–0  2023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification22  25 November 2021  La Cartuja, Seville   11–0 12–0  2023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification23  30 November 2021  La Cartuja, Seville   6–0 8–0  2023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification24  17 February 2022  Riverside Stadium, Middlesbrough    1–0 1–12022 Arnold Clark Cup25  23 February 2022  Molineux Stadium, Wolverhampton    1–0 1–02022 Arnold Clark Cup26  7 April 2022  José Rico Pérez, Alicante    1–0 1–1Friendly27  1 July 2022  Stadio Teofilo Patini, Castel di Sangro    1–1 1–1Friendly28 29 June 2023 Estadio Román Suárez Puerta, Avilés   2–0 7–0FriendlyCatalonia goals1  22 December 2016  Estadio da Lomba, Vilagarcía de Arousa   Galicia 2–0 5–0  Friendly

 References 

Category:Spanish footballers
Category:1994 births
Category:Living people