Laia Ballesté, the Catalan footballer who wanted to play for Switzerland and not for Spain

“Laia, who?” The surprise was huge when the Swiss women's soccer coach, Pia Sundhage, presented one of the novelties for the following Nations League matches. He had just announced the appointment of Laia Ballesté, a player absolutely unknown to Swiss football and who, in fact, has only had Swiss nationality for three and a half years, according to the newspaper Blick. This evening, Ballesté could make her debut in the Switzerland shirt in a mat…