Alexia Putellas

In this Catalan name, the first or paternal surname is Putellas and the second or maternal family name is Segura; both are generally joined by the conjunction "i".
In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Putellas and the second or maternal family name is Segura.

Alexia Putellas
Putellas with Barcelona in 2024
Personal information
Full name Catalan: Alèxia Putellas i Segura
Spanish: Alexia Putellas Segura
Date of birth (1994-02-04) 4 February 1994 (age 30)[1]
Place of birth Mollet del Vallès, Catalonia, Spain[2]
Height 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)[1]
Position(s) Midfielder
Team information
Current team
 Barcelona
Number 11
Youth career
2001–2005 Sabadell
2005–2006 Barcelona
2006–2008 Espanyol
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2008–2010 Espanyol B
2010–2011 Espanyol 25 (3)
2011–2012 Levante 34 (15)
2012– Barcelona 287 (131)
International career‡
2004–2007 Catalonia U12 3+
2006–2008 Catalonia U14
2008–2010 Catalonia U15/U16 3+ (2+)
2009–2011 Spain U17 4+ (1+)
2010–2012 Catalonia U18
2011–2013 Spain U19 20 (13)
2013– Spain 116 (30)
2014– Catalonia 3 (1)
Medal record
Women's football
Representing  Spain
FIFA Women's World Cup
Winner 2023 Australia-New Zealand
UEFA Women's Nations League
Winner 2024 France–Netherlands–Spain
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 06:39, 16 October 2023 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 23:50, 19 June 2024 (UTC)

Alèxia Putellas i Segura[note 1] (Catalan pronunciation: [əˈlɛksiə puˈteʎə səˈɣuɾə] (listenⓘ),[note 2] Spanish: Alexia Putellas Segura;[note 3] born 4 February 1994), often known mononymously as Alexia,[9] is a Spanish professional footballer from Catalonia who plays as a midfielder or forward for Liga F club Barcelona, which she captains, and the Spain women's national team. She previously played for Espanyol and Levante, and has represented Catalonia. Having won all major club and individual awards available to a European player by 2022,[10][11] she is widely regarded as one of the greatest female footballers of all time.[note 4]

Putellas has played for Barcelona since 2012, after spending most of her youth career in the ranks of Espanyol. With Barcelona, she has won eight league titles, eight Copas de la Reina and three UEFA Women's Champions League trophies. In Barcelona's 2020–21 season, she played an essential role as her team won the Champions League as well as the resulting continental treble, both for the first time in their history. Putellas then went on to win the UEFA Women's Player of the Year Award, the Ballon d'Or Féminin, and The Best FIFA Women's Player in 2021, becoming the first player to win all three in the same year. In 2022, despite missing the UEFA Women's Euro 2022 due to an ACL injury, she won all three awards again, becoming the first woman to win any of them in consecutive years.[10][18] Barcelona won the league and Champions League again in 2022–23, though Putellas was largely absent with the injury, before taking the continental quadruple in 2023–24.

On the international stage, Putellas had success with Spain's youth national teams, winning two UEFA Women's U-17 Euros (in 2010 and 2011) as well as finishing third in the 2010 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup and second in the 2012 UEFA Women's U-19 Euro. She made her debut for Spain's senior national team for the 2013 UEFA Women's Euro, and has since featured in four other major international competitions with the team: Spain's FIFA Women's World Cup debut in 2015, the 2017 Euro, the 2019 World Cup and the 2023 World Cup that Spain won. She captained Spain during the 2023–24 UEFA Women's Nations League, which they also won.

As of October 2023, Putellas has the second-most all-time appearances for Barcelona behind former left-back Melanie Serrano,[19][20] and is their all-time top goalscorer. She is the record holder for most Spain appearances, having surpassed Marta Torrejón's previous record of 90 caps in 2021, and became the first player to make over 100 appearances for the Spain women's team, which she achieved in 2022.

  1. ^ a b c "List of Players – 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup" (PDF). Fédération Internationale de Football Association. p. 20. Archived (PDF) from the original on 10 April 2016. Retrieved 18 June 2015.
  2. ^ "Alexia profile". FC Barcelona. Archived from the original on 29 June 2015. Retrieved 27 June 2015.
  3. ^ "Alèxia Putellas fa història en guanyar la Pilota d'Or per segon any consecutiu". Federació Catalana de Futbol (in Catalan). 17 October 2022. Retrieved 10 November 2022.
  4. ^ "The City Council awards the Gold Medal for Sporting Merit to Alèxia Putellas and Laia Palau". ajuntament.barcelona.cat. 2022. Retrieved 10 November 2022.
  5. ^ "Alèxia Putellas i Segura". Departament de la Presidència (in Catalan). Archived from the original on 10 November 2022. Retrieved 10 November 2022.
  6. ^ a b "Alexia Putellas". Sport (in Spanish). Retrieved 10 November 2022. Alèxia Putellas i Segura o Alexia Putellas Segura, es una futbolista española, nacida en Mollet del Vallès, Barcelona, el 4 de febrero de 1994.
  7. ^ Ustrell, Ricard (22 October 2022). Col·lapse - Alèxia Putellas: "La temporada 2016-17 em vaig oferir per marxar del Barça". TV3 (in Catalan). Retrieved 10 November 2022.
  8. ^ Putellas, Alexia. "SeAcabó". Twitter.
  9. ^ Cite error: The named reference :30 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  10. ^ a b UEFA.com (17 October 2022). "How brilliant is UEFA and Ballon d'Or award winner Alexia Putellas?". UEFA.com. Retrieved 17 October 2022.
  11. ^ Burhan, Asif. "Alexia Putellas Becomes First Spanish-Born Player To Win Ballon D'Or Twice". Forbes. Retrieved 4 December 2022.
  12. ^ McSweeney, Eoin; Anderson, Becky; Pourahmadi, Adam; De Oliva, Ana (7 January 2022). "Alexia Putellas: Best female player believes women's football will be properly respected around the world in five years". CNN. Retrieved 17 October 2022.
  13. ^ Redondo, Bea (10 December 2021). "'Always wanting more' – how Alexia Putellas became the best in the world". the Guardian. Retrieved 17 October 2022.
  14. ^ "Best women's players in FIFA 23, including Putellas, Miedema, Renard, Kerr and more". ESPN.com. 23 September 2022. Retrieved 17 October 2022.
  15. ^ Brennan, Clare (27 June 2022). "Alexia Putellas named world's No. 1 player, Sam Kerr No. 2". Just Women's Sports. Retrieved 17 October 2022.
  16. ^ "Lucy Bronze es rendeix a Alexia: "Serà fantàstic quan torni"". CCMA (in Catalan). 18 October 2022. Retrieved 29 November 2022.
  17. ^ "Alexia Putellas". Laureus. Retrieved 27 March 2023.
  18. ^ "Putellas wins Best FIFA Women's Player award for second year running". FIFA. February 2023. Retrieved 1 March 2023.
  19. ^ Calaff, Àlex (9 February 2022). "Barça Femenino | Alexia Putellas iguala a Vicky Losada en partidos oficiales con el Barça". Sport (in Spanish). Retrieved 3 April 2022.
  20. ^ Jiménez, Mayca (21 August 2019). "Vicky Losada, una capitana histórica para el Barça". as.com. AS. Archived from the original on 24 June 2021. Retrieved 9 June 2021.


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