Aitana Bonmati: The new World Cup commentator
Aitana Bonmati, famous for her achievements in football, now shines as a commentator at the World Cup, combining her passion for sports analysis with her responsibilities with the Spanish national team.
"I'm going to step out of my comfort zone," said Aitana Bonmati in an interview with Catalan radio station RAC1 a few weeks before the start of the World Cup. And she wasn't wrong. Bonmati is a four-time Champions League winner and world champion. With three Ballon d'Ors, she is the creative force of her team, Barcelona, and an international star of women's football. She also admitted in the same interview that she feels most comfortable "in the countryside" in her native Catalonia, especially in the area where she grew up, in Sant Pere de Ribes, a small town 40 minutes down the coast from Barcelona. Now, she can add a new line to her bio: world-class TV commentator. Football intelligence has always been one of Bonmati's main characteristics on the field. Throughout the first week of the World Cup, she has been impressing with her analysis and insights while working in the TUDN Mexico studio. A few months ago, the broadcaster hired her for the live narration of Spain's opening game and for several appearances on its analysis program, Los Maestros, alongside former Argentine player Juan Pablo Sorin and others. This is the first summer in a long time that Bonmati has had the opportunity to experience something like this. Mexico is a market that also fit her commercial needs, so she accepted the proposal to try something different. But while he launched a training camp in San Diego earlier this year, this is his last weekend in the program before traveling to California.