The women's team already prepares the Eurocup 2025, where they will seek to add their first continental scepter, which completes the World Cup achieved in 2023 and the Liga of Nations last year. Although they start as favorites, Alexia Putellas has been in charge of lowering euphoria in the media day Organized by the Federation in the City of Football of Las Rozas, in which the captains have attended the media, before leaving next Sunday to Switzerland, to play the championship.
The double winner of Golden Ball, undisputed star of this team, he has shown his desire to be in this Eurocup, because it was low last minute in the one held in 2022 to break the crusader the day before starting. «You know what happened to me in the last. For me it was a challenge to be available to compete in one more Eurocup and I really want, the truth», Highlighted the Barcelona footballer.
In addition, Mollet del Vallés has revealed that “understands” that he talks about “failure” in case they do not win, although for her “There are very good selections” and “everything is very matched”. «The mentality is to do everything to bring us closer to winning such matches, starting with Portugal. Then what has to happen, but Our goal is to give our best version to win. Then you can do it or not, but the goal always has to be that, ”he said.
Despite this, he pointed out that “We are wrong when talking about winning the Eurocup”. Alexia Putellas wanted to influence that, despite the good condition in which the players arrive, after more than necessary minivacations for the group, They have “the utmost respect for the rivals” and who want to go “step by step.” “The goal has to be winning the three games of the group stage and then doing the same in the quarterfinals, Semis and the final, but first step one and start with good feelings of the championship, which the first game is always different,” he explained.
The selection reaches this Eurocup after having razed in the last games he has played before Portugal y Belgium – Rivals in the Eurocup group phase– and winning England. Something that has left “good feelings” in the group. Regarding the Olympic Games, where they arrived exhausted and finished quarters, Alexia Putellas agrees that they arrive “much better” since “The team has more maturity, more experience and knows how to manage those moments” complicated in which the game is not the best, “but you also have to win them.”
It emphasizes that, compared to others Eurocopas, Having already won the World Cup, Spain goes with another “mentality”: «We are not going to see what happens or to hang out, but to fight and behave in a professional way to get important titlesimportant victories. I believe that this has been like click, that investment or that believe in us to get great things ».
He has not hidden his desire to «Give joys again, show and that people have a good time and feel reflected seeing the team» During this Eurocup. He pointed out that, both his batteries in the mental and physical, and those of the locker room are “fully” in the absence of just under two weeks of the debut in the Eurocup of Switzerland, against Portugal.
Alexia Putellas talks about Jenni Hermoso
It has also passed on the absence of Beautiful Jenni. The Tigres lead began a crossing of statements with Montse, accusing her of not knowing how to manage the costumes, after being out of the Eurocup. Alexia did not want to enter controversies: «What do you want me to tell you? It is a thing of the two. It is a thing of the coach, who chooses at 23 that he considers to be in the Eurocup and. And little more I can tell you. Choose her ».
