The cinematic story of a girl from a small village can end a Hollywood – ending in the final of the Women's Champions League, but the entire season of Ewa Pajor in 2024/25 deserves the highest praise – the pole broke her club records for effectiveness after signing her worldwide.
Like most Polish female football players at the beginning of the century, Ewa Pajor began to play against expectations; Her parents saw her place on the farm, near the cows.
At first the gym teacher believed, when the coaches quickly in her talent and from her first call-ups to youth teams she seemed.
More than ten years ago she was asked as a teenager on national television if she preferred the comparison with Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo. It fell on the Portuguese, but it was the further part of her answer that was crucial: “I prefer that they see me as an Ewa Pajor, not Messi in a skirt”.
In 2025 the goal must be considered fulfilled – girls want to be like Pajor and the scale of the recognisability of the football player can rise today.
The pole arrived in Lisbon for her fifth career Champions League final. The previous four – in the colors of VfL Wolfsburg – ended in defeats.
In 2016, Pajor did not come from the bank, in the 2018 final she played the full 90 minutes, in the 2020 match she scored an assist and in 2023 she scored a goal (against her current employer, by the way).
But the trophy has not yet been lifted.
That can change, since Barcelona Femeni has grown into a powerhouse in women's football, and the position of the Polish player is very different.
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A season that has already exceeded all the expectations
Six goals and two assists – these are not the statistics of the season, but of only four games for the Pajor since the beginning of May.
She ends the 2024/25 season with difficult to condemn figures not only with a pichichi, but as a top scorer of the season in the entire history of Women's Barcelona.
Yes, Femeni exists for a shorter time than the section for men, but it is still more than half a century, and nobody has achieved a similar performance: 25 goals and nine assists in the competition, 11 goals in domestic cups, six goals and two assists in the Champions League.
A total of 42 hits (and 43 including the Catalan cup) and 11 assists, who beat Jennifer Hermoso's historical count (41 goals in 2016/17).
It is also her personal career record (previously 30 goals in 2018/19). She started F League game with a semi-hedging in her first game and ended with a double and an assist in her last, and served five more hat tricks along the way.
Ewa Pajor's last seasons in Numbersflash score
And all this with self -confidence, after a move from Germany.
The transfer of only Wolfsburg only brought an exponential increase in recognition for the player, who, with her typical modesty, refused to guess how many goals she would score before she would come to the biggest stars in women's football.
So far, Ewa Pajor has maintained an incredible average: a goal with her falls every 61 minutes (53 in 3227 minutes)!
Dit is de reden waarom termen zoals “Máquina Goleadora” (doelmachine) of “Reina del Gol” (doelkoningin) in de toonaangevende Spaanse media als geen verrassing komen, terwijl het woord “moordenaar” waarschijnlijk niet hoeft te worden uitgelegd: de dag voor de finale, La Vanguardia koos haar als een sleutelcijfer in zijn 'helden van de dag' kolom in het nogal exotisch bedrijf in het nogal exotisch bedrijf van, Among other things, Luka Modricia. Kim Jong Un (after the failed launch of a rocket).
Why the immediate results?
Pajor's long stay in Wolfsburg gave her a lot, but even two Fauen-Bundesliga goal-lying Queen titles were no guarantee for a quick adjustment in Catalonia.
Today described as the best transfer of Barcelona in the summer window, Pajor turned out to be the missing piece of the Blaugrana puzzle.
On the map of Spanish women's football, Barcelona had been the hegemon for several years, only that the team missed a typical number nine – a striker with a murderer Instinct, a fox of the penalty area that was ready to move for every ball, and without having to press space and organize room for her colleagues.
Pere Romeu took place in the team in no time, and with catch -up players such as Alexia Putellas, Claudia Pina and Caroline Graham Hansen, success seemed inevitable. Goals seemed to be inevitable statistically. After all, Barcelona has complete control over the ball distribution in competitions and with every team that is played for more hits until the end.
The team has reached a Cosmic Goal Balance of 128: 16 in League Play (on average 4.3 goals and slightly more than 0.5 lost per match) despite the rapid progress of the other clubs.
Pajor regularly said in interviews during the season that her colleagues for the dressing room also influenced her great start.
She joined the large Alexia Putellas or Aitana Bossi, and they welcomed her with open arms from the first moments, making it easier to adjust and learn the Catalan style of playing the ball, where watching the game is crucial and the short game is more important than on Wolfsburg.
The 28-year-old has emphasized in recent interviews that she learns a lot and will certainly continue to develop. But.
Pajor's success and the Polish case
This is a matter that is especially relevant in the context of recognizing women's football on Vistula. Ewa Pajor has proven to be a catalyst for interest, but Poland is still far away from most Western countries.
It was only in 2024 that a female football player was picked up by one of the giants of the sport.
While successive goals at the club get media heads and attract the attention of fans, the issue of translating individual success in that of the national team remains.
Time will learn whether the choice of the Grand Stadium in Gdansk to accommodate the red and white was the right one, because the way to fill the grandstands remains a long one.
At the end of 2024, a big step for building image building was taken on the pitches of Gdańsk and Vienna.
At that time, the goal of Ewa Pajor and assistant against Austria were among the most important elements of the success in the play-offs of the Euro 2025.
The historical promotion to the main tournament has increased hope, meanwhile the Polish women are confronted with a very difficult debut in the competition, against Germany, Sweden and Denmark.
Each point will be worth its weight in gold, as will experience in the largest stage in Europe.
After the team stumbled against Bosnia and Herzegovina in April, matches against Noord -Ireland and Romania in the Nations League, as well as a definitive friendly against Ukraine at the end of June, will determine the mood for the euro itself.