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Full Time: A show about women's soccer

Barcelona win 4th Champions League trophy. What's next for Alexia Putellas?

Full Time: A show about women's soccer

The Athletic

Women's Soccer, News, Soccer, Nwsl, Sports News, Wsl, Sports

4.8807 Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2026

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

That's four trophies for Barcelona.


On this episode of Full Time Review, host Jillian Sakovits is joined by The Athletic’s Laia Cervello Herrero to recap the UEFA Women’s Champions League final between FC Barcelona and OL Lyonnes. The duo dives into how the Blaugrana hoisted their fourth UWCL title in six seasons, how La Masia is helping the team and gives an update on the future of Barcelona star Alexia Putellas.

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HOST: Jillian Sakovits

GUESTS: Laia Cervello Herrero

This podcast was produced by The Athletic.

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Referenced on the show:

Barcelona win Women’s Champions League with 4-0 victory over Lyon: How poetic Pajor secured title

Barcelona’s dismantling of OL Lyonnes shows the titans’ rebuild still has a few years to go

Tears and glory for Ewa Pajor, the striker who ended her Champions League ‘jinx’ at the sixth attempt

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0:00.0

But for Barcelona, every time they have faced Olympic Leone, it has been a turning point for them.

0:06.1

So I do think that they had that feeling of rivalry against them.

0:12.3

They have a huge respect for Leon.

0:15.8

And I have a feeling that they saw them as like the example in women's football.

0:24.0

And I think till 24th, till the first time that they were able to beat them,

0:30.9

like it was the beginning of the rivalry for both of them

0:33.4

because once they were like the big champions of Europe in the last decade, they had eight champions.

0:41.3

And Barcelona, like 10 years ago, they hadn't played a single Champions League final in their history.

0:48.3

So in seven years, they have achieved four of them, the half of the Champions League that Leon has.

0:55.9

So for me, that's impressive.

0:57.3

And I think right now, the biggest game you can see in women's football in Europe

1:04.8

is Olympic Leone Barcelona.

1:18.1

Hello, everybody, Jillian Sackavits with you. Welcome to Full Time Review. It is powered by Amazon Prime.

1:24.8

We have our new champion of Europe. That's right. It is Barcelona who beat Leon four nil to capture their fourth Champions League trophy over the weekend.

1:28.5

It came from braces from both Eva Paior and Salma Paroluelo as Barcelona puts on yet another

1:36.1

statement performance. The final marking the end of an era for Leon with U.S. Women's

1:41.4

National Team Captain Lindsay Heaps set to depart the French Giants

1:45.1

and coming to the United States this summer to join the Denver Summit. Today, we are digging

1:51.8

into how Barcelona won their fourth trophy, overwhelmingly known, where the eight-time champions

1:57.1

fell short, and finally, what is next for the face of Barcelona herself, Alexia Puteus?

2:05.4

And to help us break it all down, who better than Laya Surveo back in Spain after a few days in

2:14.2

Oslo, Norway? Hi, Laya. Hello, how are you? So good. The scenes, the atmosphere,

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