With Barça Femení players who will be out of contract in June 2024 now able to negotiate with other teams, Manchester United has approached striker Asisat Oshoala to try and persuade her to return to the English Women’s Super League this summer.
Barça Femení
We’ve made it to a new year. New goals, new challenges, new competition, new trophies. And for Barcelona Femeni, this superstar team is no stranger to Copa de la Reina, “the Queen’s Cup”. Held annually and hosted by the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF), Copa de la Reina is a playoff style elimination competition between clubs in Spain from different divisions of leagues.
With current injuries to Barcelona Femení’s first team center-backs, including María León, the club are exploring reinforcement options.
With a tumultuous schedule in place for FC Barcelona Femeni’s 2023-2024 season, players finding time and energy for international competition with their respective countries is both extravagant and exhausting, basking in the ruthlessness and radiance of representing one’s nation while on a strenuous set up. In the case of England’s Keira Walsh and Lucy Bronze (pictured above), who have been starting most matches for undefeated club Barcelona, both participants desire global domination for England’s Lionesses, who most recently fell to Spain in the Women’s World Cup final this summer.
Yes, you can have it all. Dream car. Dream house. Dream spouse. For some, wishing upon a star is enough. For others, hard work and dedication don’t bluff. In the case of FC Barcelona Femeni player Aitana Bonmatí, a golden ball was the reward for her record-breaking and ridiculous 2022/2023 season as a footballer.
Football is a game of numbers. Players wearing numbers, number of goals scored (or not scored), number of goals conceded (or not conceded), number of players on the pitch, number of defenders in a formation, to name a few. And no Pythagorean theorem, rather components of statistics and data. If we were to get into detail of people’s jobs in the football industry using numbers that would not limit but include scouts and analysts, coaching staff and management, physiotherapists and dietitians. In the case of FC Barcelona Femeni, who have rushed like a bull in a china shop this season with five victories in five matches played, numbers are meant to be built up and then break down records.
With the 2023/24 Liga F club season having kicked off in Spain, FC Barcelona Femeni players sealed one victory against Madrid CFF and then immediately packed their international bags to represent their respective European countries for the first ever UEFA Women’s Nations League competition.
Barça Femení’s transfer window is officially closed with five departues and two signings. Here is a preview of the 2023/24 season.
Barça Femení brought Ona Batlle back home from Manchester earlier this summer and she will fit like a glove at the club, as discussed here.
How the inappropriate actions of RFEF President Luis Rubiales on an international stage prompted all twenty-three players from Women’s World Cup winning Spain to resign from the team only 5 days after triumph along with an additional sixty Spanish nationals until Rubiales is removed from office.
