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Mapi León after The Best award

FEMENÍ SUCCESSES CROSS BORDERS

Barça makes history at the Women's World Cup in New Zealand and Australia

Published:11/07/2023 - 14:10h

Updated:11/07/2023 - 14:10h

The Women's World Cup kicks off on July 20 in Australia and New Zealand. Eighteen Barça players will play the Cup with their national teams, with Spain having the most Barça players, with nine.

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The Barça feminine finish the past season conquering The League and the Champions in an iconic final with traced back included. Now his players prepare to contest the Glass of the World in Australia and New Zealand. They will be 18 the culés that will be representing to his selections in this international competition. Alexia Putellas heads the Spanish delegation in company of Tasting Coll, Irene Walls, Laia Codina, Aitana Bonmati, Ona Batlle, Mariona Caldentey, Salma Paralluelo and María Pérez.

Other footballers like Ingrid Engen and Caroline Graham Hansen will be with Norway; Geyse Ferreira, with Brazil; Asisat Oshoala, with Nigeria; Fridolina Rolfö, with Sweden; Ana-Maria Crnogorčević, with Switzerland; whereas to England will represent it Lucy Bronze and Keira Walsh. Of this way, the Barcelona group will be the most represented club in the planetary appointment.

The second team with greater representation is Chelsea with 15 players. Other clubs that surpass the 10 footballers are the Manchester City, the Wolfsburgo, the Real Madrid, the Benfica, the Olympique of Lyon, the PSG, the Juventus, the Rome or the Arsenal. The Barcelona in this occasion has 18, but could have been 20 in case that Mapi León or Patri Pebble had been taken into account by the seleccionador national.

Grave conflict in the Spanish selection

The Spanish selection has been wrapped in a big controversial. After it does some months, 15 players sent a letter to the Real Spanish Federation of Football where expressed his inconformidad with the seleccionador Jorge Vilda. In his moment, the RFEF indicated that it did not go to allow the cuestionamientos to the trainer and even that if any of which signed the post wanted to return, would have to apologise and assume his error.

Surprisingly, many of which in his moment expressed his inconformidad with Vilda finally will be presents in the appointment mundialista. However, Mapi León, Claudia Pina and Patri Pebble, MVP of the final of the Champions, have preferred to sacrifice the most important appointment for a footballer of elite by his principles. The one of Saragossa is one of the best head offices of the planet and without her, the options of the combined Spanish are lower.