Alexia Putellas says Barcelona are aiming for extra historical past on this season’s Champions League.
The Spanish giants are aiming to turn out to be the primary membership to win each the women and men’s competitions in the identical season.
Barca’s ladies are concentrating on a 3rd Champions League in a row, whereas the boys are looking for their first since 2015.
‘For Barcelona that might a celebration night time’
Alexia Putellas has performed over 300 video games for Barcelona and captains the membership (Picture credit score: Getty Pictures)
Putellas spoke to FourFourTwo in regards to the prospect of creating membership historical past: “We’re already the one membership to have received the boys’s and ladies’s Champions League, so the one factor much more historic to do than that might be to win it in the identical season, proper?
“For Barcelona that might a celebration night time, for positive. However look, we each know that might be very, very tough. Quite a lot of issues must go our method, working day by day to realize our targets, however when you put together day by day then it’s these small particulars that may make the distinction once you’re competing in such large competitions in opposition to nice groups.”
Alexia Putellas is without doubt one of the most recognisable ladies’s footballers on the earth (Picture credit score: Lays)
Barcelona will play Wolfsburg within the Girls’s Champions League quarter-final and in the event that they progress they’ll face both Chelsea or Manchester Metropolis within the semis.
On this season’s competitors Putellas, ranked No.16 on FourFourTwo’s record of the most effective all-time womens gamers , added: “Look, in fact I hope Barcelona can win it – the boys’s crew, too – that might be unimaginable, however we each understand it’s going to be very tough.
“There are some nice groups on the market, with phenomenal gamers and coaches who put together them so nicely. We’ve received two in a row, and successful a 3rd could be unbelievable, however we’ve simply bought to comply with our personal path.
“Subsequent up, we’ve bought Wolfsburg, two-time former champions, within the quarter-finals which received’t be a simple recreation – we’ve simply bought to go little by little.”
Alexia Putellas received back-to-back Ballon d’Ors (Picture credit score: Getty)
Putellas was talking after filming a particular advert with Thierry Henry the place they shocked followers in Barcelona.
She defined: “That’s the place the enjoyable got here from, as a result of I promise you none of these followers knew what was occurring. They had been simply in a bar watching a recreation after which me and Thierry present up!
“It was truly fairly emotional watching the followers’ faces change after they realised we had been stood subsequent to them – it was very humorous. I’ve been at shock events earlier than, or turning up unannounced at a household get-together after they thought I might be enjoying, however this was a little bit totally different.
“These had been correct soccer followers – in fact, if I shock my household it’s particular, however to simply flip up at a bar in Barcelona and see the eagerness these individuals have for soccer and see their reactions to me, the connection they’ve for the game, was superb.”
Alexia Putellas was chatting with FourFourTwo on behalf of Lays as a part of the ‘No Lays, No Sport’ marketing campaign
