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Alexia Putellas targets double Champions League success for Barcelona

Alexia Putellas targets double Champions League success for Barcelona

Alexia Putellas wants Barcelona men's and women's teams to double up in the Champions League.

The Spanish star is looking for her third straight Women's Champions League title with Barca and hopes that her male counterparts can land their first continental crown since 2015 to create a unique piece of footballing history.

Putellas told FourFourTwo: "We’re already the only club to have won the men’s and women’s Champions League, so the only thing even more historic to do than that would be to win it in the same season, right?

"For Barcelona that would a party night, for sure. But look, we both know that would be very, very difficult. A lot of things would have to go our way, working every day to achieve our goals, but if you prepare every day then it’s those small details that can make the difference when you’re competing in such big competitions against great teams."

Barcelona's women take on German side Wolfsburg in the quarter-finals of the Champions League later this month and Putellas concedes that it will be "very difficult" to win the crown for a third season running.

She said: "Look, of course I hope Barcelona can win it – the men’s team, too – that would be incredible, but we both know it’s going to be very difficult.

"There are some great teams out there, with phenomenal players and coaches who prepare them so well. We’ve won two in a row, and winning a third would be unbelievable, but we’ve just got to follow our own path.

"Next up, we’ve got Wolfsburg, two-time former champions, in the quarter-finals which won’t be an easy game – we’ve just got to go little by little."

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