{"id":35534,"date":"2026-09-27T17:16:25","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T17:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/i-love-london-alexia-putellas-interview-womens-football-weekly\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T17:16:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T17:16:25","slug":"i-love-london-alexia-putellas-interview-womens-football-weekly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/i-love-london-alexia-putellas-interview-womens-football-weekly\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I love London!&#8217; &#8211; Alexia Putellas interview | Women&#8217;s Football Weekly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GRKRC0ThW8E?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>Two-time Ballon d&#8217;Or winner Alexia Putellas sits down with Ben Haines and Em Sanders at the London City Lionesses media day for the Women&#8217;s Football Weekly podcast.<\/p>\n<p>Putellas left Barcelona after 14 years in May and chats to Ben and Em about a whirlwind few weeks after moving to London to play in the Women&#8217;s Super League.<\/p>\n<p>00:00 &#8211; Intro<br \/>\n00:24 &#8211; Alexia Putellas joins the pod!<br \/>\n00:49 &#8211; Whirlwind last few weeks<br \/>\n02:40 &#8211; The huge interest in her transfer to London City Lionesses<br \/>\n05:18 &#8211; Enjoying everything since ACL injury<br \/>\n07:28 &#8211; \u2018La Reina\u2019 nickname<br \/>\n10:26 &#8211; Visits to London and leaving Barcelona<br \/>\n12:24 &#8211; Adapting to being an &#8216;underdog&#8217; with London City Lionesses<br \/>\n13:58 &#8211; Learning English and communicating on the pitch<br \/>\n16:33 &#8211; Pre-season with her new team-mates<br \/>\n17:26 &#8211; What does she miss about Barcelona and what has she liked so far about London<br \/>\n19:07 &#8211; Ben and Em gift Alexia \u2018welcome to England\u2019 starter pack<\/p>\n<p>Follow more on the BBC Sport app, iPlayer and Sounds.<br \/>\n=============<\/p>\n<p>SUBSCRIBE so you never miss out on our best videos<br \/>\n\u27a1\ufe0f\u27a1\ufe0fhttp:\/\/bit.ly\/1sFodyu <\/p>\n<p>=============<\/p>\n<p>Find us here: <\/p>\n<p>Facebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BBCMOTD<br \/>\nX: https:\/\/x.com\/BBCMOTD<br \/>\nInstagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/bbcfootball\/<br \/>\nTikTok: https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@bbcwomensfootball<\/p>\n<p>#bbcsport<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GRKRC0ThW8E\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two-time Ballon d&#8217;Or winner Alexia Putellas sits down with Ben Haines and Em Sanders at the London City Lionesses media day for the Women&#8217;s Football Weekly podcast. Putellas left Barcelona after 14 years in May and chats to Ben and Em about a whirlwind few weeks after moving to London to play in the Women&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-video","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35534"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35536,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35534\/revisions\/35536"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}