Laia Aleixandri will play her first match against Real Madrid this Saturday (4 p.m., DAZN) wearing the Barça colors as a professional footballer. She is the only new signing this season, after her contract with Manchester City expired and she returned to Barça following her departure in 2017 for Atlético de Madrid. Now, she faces the match against their eternal rivals with "great excitement and also a bit of nerves." This is according to her younger sister, Gemma, who doesn't miss a single one of Laia's matches and is also a sports enthusiast; in her case, basketball: she plays for CB Prat. "At home, we've always watched Barça-Madrid matches; now she'll play one, and at Montjuïc, a stadium with a special history for both Catalonia and Barça in recent years," she adds. Her family, who live in Santa Coloma de Gramenet, will be there to watch.