The secrets of Aitana Bonmatí and a Barça that seeks today to win the Montjuïc classic

Aitana Bonmatí (Sant Pere de Ribes, 1998) has competed with herself. To be able to win gold balls. But, above all, to raise titles with Barcelona, ​​the club of his life. This year, Barça has already won the Spanish Super Cup, a final that the team conquered before Real Madrid in Leganés (5-0). He also thrashed the white team in the semifinals of the Queen’s Cup with an 8-1 in the global tie. In Valdebebas, in the first round of League F, he beat 0-4. And today they are imposed on the classic league will be closer to conquer their tenth league. It would be the sixth consecutive. The appointment deserves all the attention. And that is why the club has opened the Olílpic Lluís Companys (12h). Some 30,000 spectators are expected to witness the 19th women’s classic that both clubs play.

The previous 18 have fallen from the Barcelona side, leading leader of the League with 63 points, seven more than the white team, second in the table when there are two months of competition. Aitana arrived on time to Johan Cruyff. He does not like to alter his routines. Maybe that is the key to its success. He gets up in his native Ribes, where he lives, and breakfast. For three years, their nutritional habits have changed. It is flexitary by conviction. That is, do not eat meat. To be competitive, it has managed to replace the meat protein and reorganize the nutritional plan with its own nutritionist to replace the protein deficit that could generate that change.

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The nutritional services of the club are also very aware, a plot that Mireia Porta leads. He made this decision before winning the two golden balls. He has not gone. After training and gym sessions, he returns home to eat. He also has a personal nutritionist who has come to hire chefs to prepare a dinner appropriate to his needs. All to improve and optimize the time of a player who arrived in Barcelona in 2002 in youth age with great aspirations.

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Now, with 27 years, his agenda is most controlled. To benefit her rest and disconnection, she and her team set a year ago that, at most, she could assume a commercial act a week. Because the Aitana brand has also expanded. He left Nike and signed for Adidas. And currently, it is also the image of Revlon, Bimbo, Alpro, Nissan, EA Sports, Topps and Vueling. They will come more. Especially the summer campus he performs in Ribes, his oasis of tranquility. Where he reads, goes to the psychologist, visit his parents or stays with the usual people. These elements have been essential to evolve.

Against the Wolfsburg, in the first leg of the quarterfinals of the Champions League, he made one of the best games of the season. Because in large stages, Aitana grows. “I think that where the quality of the team and the players really are seen in the big games. There you can develop all the facets of the game for 90 minutes,” says the midfielder, who feels much more decisive in the Champions League because “in the league we find ourselves in a different context. There are many low blocks. This prevents more spaces from between lines. Surely for why we mark more goals focusing and remitting.”

Real Madrid is not a weak team. He has won Arsenal, eliminated the City and has competed against Chelsea. We have to value what we do “

Aitana Bonmatí

Then there is Real Madrid. “It is not a weak team. He has won the Arsenal, eliminated the City and has competed against Chelsea. If Madrid manages to compete there, it means that it is up same Enjoying especially with Graham Hansen. Both have turned the right side of Barça into a donkey. However, Aitana already adds nine goals this course. “And in this final stretch, it is when I find it better,” I said with a smile before looking at the clock. He was already starting to train.