Aitana Bonmatí

Aitana Bonmatí: seeing it before anyone else

She was born carrying her mother's surname first because her parents refused to accept that things had to be done the way they always had been. On the pitch she turned that same nonconformity into a way of playing: finding the space before it appears and disputing any limit others present as inevitable. Three Ballons d'Or on, Aitana Bonmatí still plays as if she had something to prove.