BarcelonaClaudia Pina, the jewel of the Blaugrana squad, has extended her contract with the club until 2026. She signed on Wednesday, a day after Cata Coll did, also until 2026. . I have a very great feeling and I hope to continue here for many more years,” said the one from Montcada i Reixac after signing the renewal alongside Joan Laporta and the manager in charge of women’s football, Xavier Puig.
It is a renewal of the present and the future, although the first boots that Pina put on were not studded, nor did she step on the grass she now caresses. The attacker started his relationship with the ball on the track of the Montcada i Reixac pavilion with the city’s futsal club. But he stayed there for a short time, since the scouters from Espanyol signed her for the lower categories. However, she has always been a culer, and when the club of her life knocked on her door, she did not hesitate to change Sant Adrià de Besòs for Sant Joan Despí. His first Blaugrana team was the youth team in 2013, when he was 12 years old.
He grew in the lower categories until, installed in the subsidiary – although he often trained with the first team –, the club saw that the best option was to leave for a season. “She was a player who you could see was very talented. She grew and we had her under control. When we met in the first team of Barça, both sides saw that playing in the subsidiary and training in the first team was not enough. That’s when we sat down and we see that the best thing for her is for her to leave on loan,” Lluís Cortés, her coach at the time, tells ARA. Sevilla was the best choice. They still have very good memories there.
The transfer to Sevilla, key
“We followed her from the lower categories. She sees football in a different way from the rest. That season we contacted Barça for a transfer and they saw it as a good option to gain minutes in the Primera,” remembers Amparo Gutiérrez , director of women’s football at Sevilla. “It’s true that it was difficult for her to adapt. The most important barrier that she overcame was the effort: competing in the match, keeping up the physical level. It was strange not to see her with the twins climbing!”, he recalls with a smile . During that time in Seville, Pina learned a lot. Knowing her innate talent, she threw herself into improving those aspects she lacked. She decided to make herself, to let herself be helped, to be the best version that has now consolidated her as a culer diamond.
“Claudia has always been a player who has had a lot of goals and who, in recent years, has developed many more virtues that she did not need at a younger age. She understands the game much better, has adapted to other positions, opened up the range of options. He has learned to defend and he wanted to do it – analyzes Cortés -. In addition, he has greatly improved the role he occupies within the team. He has taken on a point of leadership and responsibility in the group.” adds Balaguer’s technician.
That year in Sevilla was where Claudia Pina matured as a footballer, but also what deprived her of the best Barça campaign: the treble season. That’s why he now has between eyebrows to lift the Champions League. The first step to do so, the renewal he has just signed with Barça.