Ballon d’Or winner Aitana Bonmatí has voiced considerations that Liga F is “stagnating” and believes the league ought to present humility and take inspiration from the Girls’s Tremendous League (WSL) to achieve its potential.
Regardless of Spain’s triumph on the 2023 World Cup, the league has struggled to develop, main a number of gamers to maneuver away to the WSL in England, the Nationwide Girls’s Soccer League (NWSL) in america and the Liga MX in Mexico.
Bonmatí, extensively considered the most effective feminine footballer on the earth, has spent her total profession taking part in in Liga F. Regardless of Barcelona’s success, she has expressed frustration over the league’s inadequate assist and infrastructure, which she believes are holding it again from turning into the most effective leagues in world soccer.
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“Different leagues are overtaking us at an unimaginable pace, when now we have the potential to be a high league, an instance of a league,” the 28-year-old informed The Athletic.
“We’re stagnating. We aren’t getting any higher. The league doesn’t also have a sponsor; what curiosity is being put into the league? Who’s operating the league?
“We needs to be extra humble and take a look at how the English leagues do issues, and if these adjustments don’t come then it’s a signal of people that run this league not being fascinated by transferring ahead.”
Two of Bonmatí’s compatriots and former Barcelona teammates — Laia Codina and Mariona Caldentey — have moved to the WSL up to now 12 months, each selecting to play for Arsenal.
Codina signed for the north London facet final season after Spain’s World Cup win whereas Caldentey moved on a free switch this summer season and is about to make her WSL debut on Sunday in opposition to Manchester Metropolis.
Caldentey shared Bonmatí’s ideas over the dearth of improvement in Liga F, the place she spent a decade taking part in for Barça.
“The Spanish League just isn’t going how we wish it,” she informed BBC 5 Dwell Sport.
“When England gained the Euros, everybody may see a extremely massive change within the league and we missed [that] in Spain.
“We gained the World Cup, and it modified nothing, so I feel it [the WSL] is true now the most effective league to play in.”
Codina echoed her teammates’ emotions, including: “I actually really feel that nothing modified in Spain [after winning the World Cup].
“Right here, you may see that every part is altering; every part is bettering. The golf equipment are spending extra money. Perhaps that is why extra Spanish gamers are coming right here as a result of it is a problem and an thrilling place.
“After all, within the nationwide group, they ask quite a bit [about the WSL]. They need to know the way it’s and the way it’s going right here. I hope that we are able to deliver extra individuals right here.”
Earlier this month, Bonmatí signed a brand new contract with the Champions League holders, committing her future to the membership till 2028. Reigning WSL champions Chelsea had expressed curiosity within the midfielder and have been prepared to pay the €3 million ($3.35m) launch clause, her agent Cristian Martin informed Catalunya Radio.
A supply informed ESPN that her new contract will make her the highest-paid girls’s participant globally.
“My determination to remain is 100% due to Barça as a membership and if my determination was centered on the league as a substitute of the membership, then I might not have stayed, that is clear,” she mentioned.