{"id":483916,"date":"2025-09-22T18:48:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T22:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/aitana-bonmati-makes-history-with-her-third-consecutive-ballon-dor\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T18:48:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T22:48:12","slug":"aitana-bonmati-makes-history-with-her-third-consecutive-ballon-dor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/sports\/football\/aitana-bonmati-makes-history-with-her-third-consecutive-ballon-dor\/","title":{"rendered":"Aitana Bonmat\u00ed makes history with her third consecutive Ballon d’Or"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

<\/p>\n\n\nParis (EFE)<\/em> \u2014 Spain’s Aitana Bonmat\u00ed<\/strong>, midfielder for FC Barcelona<\/strong>, further cemented her legend by winning the 2025 Ballon d’Or<\/strong> this Monday, at the ceremony organized by France Football<\/em> and UEFA at the Th\u00e9\u00e2tre du Ch\u00e2telet in Paris.\n\n\n

You may be interested in:<\/strong> Ballon d’Or: Dembel\u00e9 or Lamine Yamal, the end of the enigma<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nAt 29 years old<\/strong>, the Catalan footballer becomes the first player in history to win three consecutive Ballon d’Or awards<\/strong> (2023, 2024 and 2025), thus equaling the feats of legendary figures such as Michel Platini<\/strong> and Johan Cruyff<\/strong> in the men’s category.\n\nBonmat\u00ed was a key player in Barcelona’s absolute dominance in Spanish football and in the club’s reaching the Champions League final, in addition to her contribution to the runner-up finish of Spain in the European Championship<\/strong>. In the voting, she surpassed her compatriot Mariona Caldentey<\/strong> (Arsenal) and the Englishwoman Alessia Russo<\/strong> (Arsenal), who completed the podium.\n\nThe award was presented to him by Andr\u00e9s Iniesta<\/strong>, one of his childhood idols, along with Xavi Hern\u00e1ndez<\/strong>. \u201cI have learned from them and my football depends on what they taught me,\u201d he expressed emotionally.\n\n\u201cThree years here and the theater continues to impress a lot<\/strong>\u201d, said Aitana in her speech, underlining the very high level of all the candidates. \u201cIf I could share it I would, it’s a year of great level\u201d.\n\nThe midfielder also highlighted the importance of, for the first time, awarding the same number of men’s and women’s awards: “Equality is something we demand and hope will continue<\/strong>.”\n\nWith this award, Bonmat\u00ed succeeds her teammate Alexia Putellas<\/strong>, winner in 2021 and 2022, consolidating Barcelona as the epicenter of world women’s football. “I want to thank the club, my teammates and everyone who has helped me get here,” concluded the cul\u00e9 star.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Paris (EFE) \u2014 Spain’s Aitana Bonmat\u00ed, midfielder for FC Barcelona, further cemented her legend by winning the 2025 Ballon d’Or this Monday, at the ceremony organized by France Football and UEFA at the Th\u00e9\u00e2tre du Ch\u00e2telet in Paris. You may be interested in: Ballon d’Or: Dembel\u00e9 or Lamine Yamal, the end of the enigma At […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":483917,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[40943],"tags":[611,40231,40853],"class_list":["post-483916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-deultimominuto","tag-dominican-republic","tag-thetruthnewspaper"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-21T6","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/09\/Aitana-Balon-de-Oro-2.jpeg","dum_api":{"author_name":"EFE","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/1200px-EFE_logo.svg-96x96.png","categories_name":["Football"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/09\/Aitana-Balon-de-Oro-2.jpeg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}