2024-02-06 19:44:56
Catalan sport is in good health and this is absolutely demonstrated one more year in the Catalan Sports Festival who jointly organize the Diario SPORT and the UFEC and which represents the final culmination of a season full of successes and unforgettable moments.
The jury of the Catalan sports gala this year chose the sailor as the best male and female athletes. Jordi Xammar and the soccer player Aitana Bonmatí for how much they have achieved in 2023, a special year for both athletes.
The best in the world
The biggest star in world football is Aitana Bonmatíwho has lived a historic year 2023 culminated with the Ballon d’Or and who, for this reason, received the award for Best Catalan Athlete at the 27th Festa de l’Esport Català.
Despite having just turned 26 years old, the Barça midfielder is a consolidated star of world football This being his ninth season in the elite, in the Barça first team, with which he debuted in 2016.
A moment from the gala with Aitana on the screen. / VALENTI ENRICH
With his ambition, his perseverance, his desire to be better every day, his effort in every training session and every game and with his talent he has grown year after year until signing, this past year, a golden season, in which he has been the leader of a Barça champion of the League, the Super Cup and the Champions League and of a Spanish team champion of the World.
Olympic ticket
Last August, the Catalan sailor Jordi Xammar, next to Nora Brugman, He won the bronze medal in the Olympic 470 Mixed class at the World Championships in The Hague (Netherlands). A metal with which the classification of the Catalan couple for the Paris Games was sealed.
A milestone that will allow Xammar to fulfill the goal of returning to an Olympic event and fight for a new medal to add to the one he won in Tokyo. She then won bronze in the men’s 470 class as a duo with Nico Rodriguez.
In Paris, this class has been replaced by the mixed modality, where the Sant Joan Despí will look for gold. The pair formed by Xammar and Brugman tops the international ranking of the class and has been confirmed as one of the favorites.
Lamine Yamal, proud
Lamine Yamal, with the award for athlete with the greatest projection in hand, wanted to thank the organizers for the award: “It is an honor to receive this award, I am very happy. I also want to thank the Barça and to my family for always helping me.
Lamine Yamal, after receiving the award. / Valentí Enrich
“Playing for Barça at 16? I don’t think about it much, otherwise I would always be thinking about it. It’s a dream and it’s what I’ve always dreamed of,” he said about his emergence into the Barça first team.
TODOS LOS PREMIADOS DE FESTIVAL OF CATALAN SPORTS
Award for the Best Catalan Sportsman: Jordi Xammar (Sailing)
Extraordinary Award: Laia Sanz (Dakar)
Award for the Best Catalan Sportswoman: Aitana Bonmatí (FC Barcelona)
Award to the Athlete with the most Female Projection: Anna Cañado (golf) and Sofía Santacreu (athletics)
Award to the Sportsman with the most Male Projection: Lamine Yamal (FC Barcelona)
Best Coach Award: Pep Guardiola (Manchester City)
Award to the Team that has given the most success to Catalan sport: CN Sabadell Women (Water Polo)
Special mention award: Girona FC
Sportsmanship Award: Berta Alomà (Korfball)
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