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Ballon d’Or winner Aitana Bonmatí has voiced issues that Liga F is “stagnating” and believes the league ought to present humility and take inspiration from the Women’s Super 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 Ladies’s Soccer League (NWSL) in the US and the Liga MX in Mexico.
Bonmatí, extensively thought to be one of the best feminine footballer on the planet, 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 help and infrastructure, which she believes are holding it again from turning into probably the greatest leagues in world soccer.
“Different leagues are overtaking us at an unimaginable pace, when we have now the potential to be a prime league, an instance of a league,” the 28-year-old instructed 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 working the league?
“We must 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 about shifting ahead.”
Two of Bonmatí’s compatriots and former Barcelona teammates — Laia Codina and Mariona Caldentey — have moved to the WSL previously 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 City.
Caldentey shared Bonmatí’s ideas over the shortage of growth in Liga F, the place she spent a decade taking part in for Barça.
“The Spanish League is just not going how we wish it,” she instructed BBC 5 Stay Sport.
“When England received the Euros, everybody may see a very massive change within the league and we missed [that] in Spain.
“We received the World Cup, and it modified nothing, so I believe it [the WSL] is correct now one of the best 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’ll be able to see that every little thing is altering; every little thing is bettering. The golf equipment are spending more cash. Possibly that is why extra Spanish gamers are coming right here as a result of it is a problem and an thrilling place.
“In fact, within the nationwide staff, they ask lots [about the WSL]. They need to know the way it’s and the way it’s going right here. I hope that we will carry extra individuals right here.”
Earlier this month, Bonmatí signed a 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 had been prepared to pay the €3 million ($3.35m) launch clause, her agent Cristian Martin instructed Catalunya Radio.
A supply instructed ESPN that her new contract will make her the highest-paid girls’s participant globally.
“My resolution to remain is 100% due to Barça as a membership and if my resolution was centered on the league as a substitute of the membership, then I might not have stayed, that is clear,” she mentioned.
