After seven years at Barça, spread over two terms, and with the honor of being the all-time top scorer for the women's team, with 181 goals, Jenni Hermoso closed her time at Barça on Wednesday with an emotional farewell letter published in her social networks. The striker goes to the Pachuca of Mexican soccer.
"Women's football is beautiful, to see it you have to remove the blindfold," announced the new Spanish club in a video where several fans, wearing a blindfold and listening to clues, tried to guess the identity of the new signing. Messi, Sergio Ramos, Neymar and Piqué were some of the names that the fans erroneously launched.
Hermoso, trained at Atlético de Madrid, embarks on his first adventure outside of European football after serving in the mattress entity (2004-2010 and 2018-19), at Rayo Vallecano (2010-2013), at Swedish Tyresö (2013) , at Barça (2013-2017 and 2019-2022) and at PSG (2017-18). She leaves European football with more than 300 goals in her locker and a track record within the reach of few soccer players, where seven leagues and a Champions League stand out.
The striker and Barça wanted to continue their paths together. "I'm staying here," he said in celebration of Real Madrid's fifth goal at the Johan Cruyff, in the match that won the League. However, both parties did not agree on the renewal of his contract, which expires on June 30. His replacement will be the Brazilian Geyse Ferreira, signed a few days ago from Madrid CFF, who last year was top scorer with 20 goals, the same as the azulgrana Oshoala.
"Growing up is learning to say goodbye. I have been able to say it many times, life is made up of moments and you don't know if they will be repeated. For this reason, you have to try to enjoy them and smile, always smile", begins her farewell letter from Madrid, from 32 years old, currently injured with a grade two sprain of the internal lateral ligament of her right knee that will prevent her from being with the Spanish team in the European Championship that begins on July 6. Hermoso is also the top scorer for the national team with 45 goals.
"Throughout my time here, I've learned, I've cried, I've fallen many times and I've come out on top. I've had wonderful moments, being able to win everything with this shirt is something I'll always take with me. Playing in a packed stadium, being able to celebrate a goal at the Camp Nou, raising our first Champions League very high", Hermoso recalls his great moments as a Barcelona player, including the treble of titles in the 2020-21 season and the two Champions League games this year at a practically full Camp Nou , against Real Madrid and Wolfsburg.
"I've also had very bad times, I'm not going to lie to you, but all that has made me know who, know who doesn't, know where and know where not. You don't know the people I've taken with me from all these years, colleagues, friends , people who made my heart happy every day and without a doubt I wouldn't have been able to enjoy it as much as I have," adds the Spanish, top scorer four times in the League between 2016 and 2021, about her teammates.
Hermoso also has words for "the fans, who have always been there, every training session, every game, you have made Barça really feel like my home". The forward leaves "very proud" and assuring that she still "has much to live for, to enjoy". "Now is the time for new adventures that fill and make me feel truly valued," she concluded.
He will land in Pachuca as an absolute star and will form in attack with another outstanding striker in Mexican soccer such as Charlyn Corral. "We were rivals for many years, but there was always mutual respect and admiration. What emotion and pride that you have chosen Pachuca! I'll see you very soon, how I want to play together!" Her new partner and former player from Atlético received her with a message Madrid and Levante, where he was the top scorer in the 2017-18 season.
The Apertura tournament will begin on July 8 and Hermoso could debut in the Tuzos' first game on July 11 against Puebla, as long as she is already recovered from her injury. Pachuca reached the final of the last Clausura tournament, which they lost to Guadalajara, and with the arrival of Hermoso, they became one of the great favorites.
