by Alexia Putellas Barça sows a seed that could turn against them | Relief

16 February 2024, 16:38.

There are several details in the Alexia Putellas case that really grab my attention. I realized the first of them yesterday, reading the first reactions on Twitter to the national team’s challenge. I’m sorry, I don’t feel like calling him

Not at all Monse Tome kidnapped Alexia Putellas nor did he summon her against her will. I understand that, given the background, this took us by surprise. But Alexia Putellas went because she wanted to. Moreover, the Barça captain asked the club to let her go. And I understand her.

Alexia is in the final stages of recovery, and she needs to continue: more loads, more competitive training, etc. Staying in Barcelona was not meant to be. Most of Barça’s players will be traveling with their national teams, the club has scheduled a total of four training sessions (over the next week) and it is expected that the pace and intensity of training will not be as demanding. This is why Alexia joins the national team. To enjoy these intense sessions at a competitive pace. It would be even more, the residents of Monse Tome will meet with history, with the Olympic Games.

Some fans perceived this step as a kind of betrayal. It was as if Alexia didn’t care about Barça and only thought about the national team. It was as if she had acted recklessly and disobeyed the club’s advice. It’s as if Alexia suddenly found herself with the “bad guys” – RFEF-. However, all Alexia thinks about is returning. Which, by the way, also interests Barça.

And you tell me: “Of course, but if something happens to him…”. For this reason, Barça had and still has the right to show their anger and fear. But from there there is a way out to what is happening. And here I reveal the second detail that caught my attention. As the culé world burned, Barça’s wrath piled up in the headlines and mentions of Alexia Putellas on Twitter spread like wildfire. she didn’t know anything. And this is also unfair.

That is, the club did not contact her to say: “Hey, what are you talking about? The fact that you are going to go to the national team seems like an opportunity to us.”

Swim at all. And, of course, this freedom to air dirty linen and the lack of communication with the person involved in the case sounds, to put it mildly, strange. First of all, because it sows a (very dangerous) seed in public opinion. Just take a look at Twitter. Because something happened that happens very rarely: Barça fans did not agree or did not share the position of their captain.

Because doubt is the worst thing in the world, and this movement has created it. It was as if Barça were waiting for the perfect opportunity to show their paws, to play dirty. And we all know that team concentration is always a good time. On the other hand, due to the hard-earned image of the RFEF that the club and Barça fans have developed, and also due to the circumstances of Alexia Putellas: she is waiting to decide her future.

The midfielder is the essence of Barça, its idol and its most representative footballer. Since arriving at Barça, both parties have promised each other eternal love, an idyllic relationship in women’s football, which has the same face as men’s football. However, Barça’s position on this issue could create a very dangerous precedent between them. And I don’t think Alexia was very happy about it.