Champion and MVP of the Champions League and the World Cup, she rounded off her campaign by winning a Ballon d'Or where she had no rival.

A picture is worth a thousand words. Although we are going to try to describe the extraterrestrial year 2023 of Aitana Bonmatí (Sant Pere de Ribes, 1998) with earthly words.

The Catalan took on the stripes of FC Barcelona, after the injury of Alexia Putellas, to lead the achievement of the League and the Champions League, win the World Cup together with the Spanish team and take the baton in the Olympus of football with her first Ball of Gold, the UEFA award for best player in Europe and the FIFA 'The Best' pending until next January 15.

Two individual awards in which there was no room for doubt after a season to frame and on which we put the magnifying glass to find out why Aitana has been, without palliatives, the best player of the year.

Aitana's influence on the field.

To understand Aitana Bonmatí you have to understand her game. The Catalan stands out for her role as a playmaker from a position that has come to vary somewhat depending on whether she played for FC Barcelona or the Spanish team.

With Barça it is observed that Bonmatí directed from the right wing with an interior position; never going to the extreme and skirting the area, looking for the weak point where she does damage. She even reached the position of midfielder in the last edition of the Champions League.

Wearing the national team jersey, Aitana limited herself during the World Cup to the right inside field, with some marks, which denoted the creation of plays from her own field.

Double in Super Cup and first MVP (2p, 2g, 0a)

It all started with a double, his double, in the final of the Spanish Super Cup against Real Sociedad (3-0) and his first MVP of the season, which opened the historic campaign that ended with 18 goals and 21 assists for Bonmatí.
​MVP in his second Champions League... (11p, 5g, 7a)

Despite her lack of goals in the Champions League, Aitana was the best player of the match five times and the MVP of the tournament before lifting her second Champions League title. In the final, she signed her seventh assist in the Champions League for Patri Guijarro to make it 2-2 against Wolfsburg.

...And MVP of an unforgettable World Cup (7p, 3g, 2a)

With a practically perfect season, Aitana Bonmatí had a spectacular World Cup from which she emerged not only as champion, but as the best player of the tournament (3 goals and 6 assists) and with a place in the ideal XI. It was the perfect ending to a perfect season before the individual titles arrived.

Source image: RTVE.