“We want to win the Champions League yes or yes. We owe it to you!”

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He slowly appeared on the lawn of the Estadi Johan Cruyff. I was already without crutches Alexia Putellas, the women’s Barça captain. She was the last player to appear on the grass. The most ambitious. The most forceful in her speech to the 4,000 fans who attended the official presentation of the new project of Jonathan Giraldez.

A project that has started with a resounding victory over Montpellier (6-0) in the Joan Gamper trophy. Easy win for the azulgranas with goals from Geyse Ferreira (1-0, m 23), Patri Guijarro (2-0, m 27), Patri Guijarro (3-0, m 45), Geyse Ferreira (4-0, m .51); Rolfö (5-0, m 54) and Ariana Arias (6-0, m 77)

In the box, was a proud Joan Laporta applauding the coach’s speech (“the past no longer works, our challenge is to give you back in the form of titles all the support you will give us”, he commented Giraldez) and happy to listen to Putellas. “We want to win the Champions League yes or yes. We owe it to you!”, proclaimed the captain, who could miss practically the entire season due to the serious knee injury she suffered with the Spanish team just before the start of the European Championship.

“I wanted to give a message of thanks to everyone for the support you gave us last season,” said the Barça women’s coach. “We experienced unique moments last season and we will never forget what we felt those days at the Camp Nou”, said Giráldez.

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Barça set the world attendance record for a women’s match twice, being established in the duel with Wolfsburg where 91,648 spectators attended. “We lived through a season of records, with those two incredible games at the Camp Nou and the three titles we won. But it doesn’t help us”, he insisted Putellas maintaining the highest level of demand. “We want to lift the three titles again, we want to repeat the Champions League final and win it yes or yes this year”.

In addition, in her captain’s speech, she looked at the youngest players who have arrived at Barça. “Defend these shirts with pride, work every day with a lot of passion. In the future you will have to be here playing finals and lifting titles”, Alexia Putellas predicted.



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