Artist TvBoy turns footballer Alexia Putellas into superhero in Barcelona | Video

Barcelona (Spain), March 31 (EFE).- (Camera: Víctor Martí) The Barça player Alexia Putellas has been turned into a superhero in TvBoy's latest street art in Barcelon, replacing the one he himself created to commemorate the figure of the Argentine Diego Armando Maradona.

On Wednesday the captain of the Barça team and her teammates made history at the Camp Nou in the return leg of the Champions League quarterfinal against Real Madrid, setting a world record for attendance in a women's football match.

FOOTAGE OF TVBOY'S ART IN BARCELONA AND TVBOY IN HIS STUDIO.

SOUNDBITES OF TVBOY.

Translations:

"The mural of Alexia Putellas was something I'd been considering for a long time. My daughter is the one that pushed me to do it because my daughter is five years old and for the first time she told me she wanted to play football, so I understood there was a shift. On the same wall, I had done a portrait of Maradonna, on which people had written the word rapist. I thought it would be a good message if a woman was the star, the champion."

"Alexia is huge, now everyone wants to be Alexia. Before, everyone wanted to be Messi or Ronaldo, but now, finally, football is more inclusive."

Metadata

Date: 31/03/2022 12:00 (UTC)
Credit: EFE
Source: EFE
Topic: Sport
Type: Rough cut
Duration: 158 seconds
Reference: 7001156117
Relevance: Normal