Meet Alexia Putellas, World's Best Woman Footballer From FC Barcelona Femeni

FIFA Awards 2023 ceremony was held on February 28 in Paris to honour the legends of football worldwide. While Lionel Messi was awarded the Best Men's Player title, Spanish footballer Alexia Putellas bagged the title of Best Women's Player in the world.

This is the second time that Alexia Putellas won the title of Best FIFA Women's Player, the first being in 2021. The Spanish midfielder and captain of the FC Barcelona Femeni team have achieved many milestones in her career. The footballer is also a part of Spain's national women's football team and has been playing football since she was seven years old. Here is all you need to know about the world's best female football player.

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Who Is Alexia Putellas?

Born on February 4, 1994, in Barcelona to a family of basketball players, Putellas was fascinated by football from a very young age. She has always been a supporter of FC Barcelona and used to go to watch their matches with her father. When she was young, she used to play basketball, tennis and hockey, she started playing football in school and later, at the age of seven, she joined a football club. CF Mollet UE boys' team was the first local football team that Putellas joined but she soon left it to join the Sabadell girls' team, saying that she did not like the environment in the boys' team.

Patellas was underage for Sabadell so her parents lied to get her into the team and despite being younger than most of her team members, she was soon made the captain of the team. In 2005, Putellas joined La Masia academy and at the age of twelve, she joined the Espanyol football team and stayed with it till 2011. She then became a member of Levante before joining her dream team Barcelona in 2012. Patellas holds the record of winning all individual awards and major clubs that a European player can win by 2022.

27-year-old Putellas holds seven Copas de la Reina titles, six league titles and a UEFA Women's Champions League title. In 2021, she made history by becoming the only player to win The Best FIFA Women's Player, UEFA Women's Player of the Year Award and Ballon d'Or Féminin, all three titles in the same year. In 2022, she again won all three titles becoming the only player to win the three titles in the same year second time in a row.

Along with Alexia Putellas, other female footballers that were awarded at the ceremony included Sarina Weigman as Best Women's Coach, Mary Earps as Best Women's Goalkeeper, Beth Mead, Alex Morgan, Keira Walsh, Lucy Bronze, Leah Williamson, Wendie Renard, Maria Pilar Leon, Christiane Andler, Sam Kerr and Lena Oberdorf.