“Now the good begins,” says Aitana Bonmatí. The same one that 12 years ago went to the municipal field of Sant Pere de Ribes to play football with children. In this 2025 the winner twice from the Golden Ball steps on the grass of a field that now bears his name. He has won everything with Barça and fills him a lot to see how his campus celebrates his fifth edition with boys and girls born between 2009 and 2017. “They are very curious. They ask me questions that … in short, they seem journalists,” says Aitana, happy to generate that interest. “This fills me a lot. Being a reference for them and, especially, for them. Gender, ”reflects the midfielder, who continues to live in her native ribs, her oasis of tranquility to face an exciting season.
Aitana Bonmatí on her campus
Everything starts this Sunday with the first leg of the Champions League semifinals that Blaugrana will play against Chelsea at the Johan Cruyff stadium. The tie will be decided a week later in Stamford Bridge. “The team is very good, me too. We arrive in a good condition of form and trust. What to say about these games. They are the ones we want to play, it is the best moment of the season and it is time to enjoy the previous days and the whole process,” he explains with the smile of the ambitious footballer who has not tired of winning. He wants to reach the final of Lisbon and conquer what would be the fourth female Champions of the club.
The footballer says they are in a good time and celebrates the semifinal that those of Flick have reached
But first Chelsea. It is the third consecutive semifinal against the English. Everyone has won Barça. But Chelsea now has the only coach who has stopped Blaugrana in this competition in the last four years, Sonia Bompastor, who led Lyon to victory in the 2022 Turin final.
“He has also incorporated new players. Without going any further, there are Lucy Bronze and Keira Walsh, who does nothing with us. It is a club that reinvents himself, that she files and has a very wide template, unlike other years,” Aitana warns. A footballer who claims the value of the Masia, which he reached in 2002. Always looking sideways at the players, who lived a very different reality.
I believe, without a doubt, that being a reference for them helps children grow up without having gender differences present ”
“Now they have more comforts. Surely young women like Shertenleib will give us many successes in the future, but we ask for patience. We have to respect the processes. I am very happy that mine were respected. I wanted to play always, but you can burn the players,” he said.
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Beyond the successes he lives with the female Barça, Aitana, Culé de Cuna, he sees with illusion the progress of Hansi Flick, also classified for the semifinals of the highest continental competition: “Since Messi left, Barça lives a change process. I think Xavi did very well giving the opportunity to young players who are now holders and that they are now holding and that they are now holding it.
Aitana Bonmatí on her campus
Beyond football and campus, there is another issue that fills. Daughter of two Catalan language and literature teachers, the player grew up in a home where reading and knowledge were fundamental. And that has also marked a trend. In this sense, as this newspaper published, there are university students from Granada who have learned Catalan to understand and listen to the matches in Catalan channels. “The article passed me a relative. It makes me special illusion that we can be references in this regard and that we can teach the population that learning languages is something positive. It is cultural wealth. I always speak Catalan, I always defend it where I go. I do not give me any shame and you have to normalize that we can talk what we want. It makes me excited to learn to understand us in press wheels,” he said before going to chat with the students.
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