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World champion in 2023 and crowned champion in the League of Nations in 2024, Spain logically served as a big favorite for this 2025 women's Euro. And the Roja began very strong, assuming its status as an ogre of the competition with a Manita (5-0) against his neighbors in Portugal. It must be said that on paper, Spain posted a monstrous workforce, with the Ballon d'Or 2023 and 2024 Aitana Bonmatí (replacement against Portugal because sick), Mariona Caldentey, best player of the North American championship, the nugget Salma Paralleulo, the new Parisian Olga Carmona, the banner Esther Gonzalez and necessarily, Alexia Potellas, Considered by many as the best Spanish player in history.

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Only, from her Ballon d'Or won in 2021 and 2022, the player of FC Barcelona has experienced difficult years. In the summer of 2022, she seriously injured the knee during the preparation for the Euro precisely, missing most of the year 2022/2023. Behind, in November 2023, rebelote with a knee injury that removed her from the field until 2024. Inevitably, she lost importance in the team. At the same time, there were also big disputes with the Spanish Federation following the kissing affair between Hermoso and Rubials, as well as with the selector Montse Tomé, who had testified in favor of the president, while Potellas had done so in favor of his teammate.

Two complicated years before a top return

During the 2024 Olympic Games, Tomé had decided to leave it on the bench against Brazil in the semi-finals, which had been experienced as a big humiliation for the captain, who had public opinion on his side. Overall, she had clearly lost importance in selection. Worse, things had been overturned with Barça during the season, especially when Putellas had decided, in the spring of 2024, to play the League of Nations meetings with the selection, when it was always coming back from injury, going so far as to challenge the management of the Catalan club which did not want it to play. It was even discussed, for a few weeks, a departure … A very complicated 2022-2024 period therefore, between injuries, medium services and different confusion outside the land.

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Until last season, where we saw the putltelas which ignited the lawns in Spain and in the rest of Europe. Gradually, as she found her level, things calmed down. With Barça first, with whom she scored 16 goals and delivered 11 assists in 24 Liga games, signing a new contract with her heart club. The ax of war was also buried with Montse Tomé, who redid the Catalan the leader of his attack. And Putellas struck hard when taking the selection in this euro, shaking the nets and making a very good copy. Clearly, she has lost none of her superb technique, her ability to make differences, to mark, nor to her superb vision of the game. Her leadership qualities and her winner character will be decisive so that Spain can hope for the Euro-CDM-LDN triple.

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