Clàudia Pina

Clàudia Pina
Personal information
Full name Clàudia Pina Medina
Date of birth (2001-08-12) 12 August 2001
Place of birth Montcada i Reixac, Catalonia, Spain
Height 165 cm (5 ft 5 in)
Playing position Forward
Club information
Current team
 Barcelona B
Number 9
Youth career
2011–2013 Espanyol
2013–2017 Barcelona
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2016– Barcelona B
2017– Barcelona 1
National team
2016–2017 Spain U-17 22 (27)
2018– Spain U-20 5 (1)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Clàudia Pina Medina (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈklaudja ˈpina]; born 12 August 2001) is a Spanish football forward currently playing for Barcelona B in the Spanish Second Division.[1]

Career

Club

Pina was formerly a futsal player in Montcada before being discovered by Espanyol's scouts in 2011 and subsequently joining their youth team.[2][3] She moved to Barcelona's infantil-alevín team from Espanyol in 2013,[2][4] and in her second season, she helped the team to win the youth league championship by scoring 100 goals in her 20 appearances.[5][6] After proving herself as a technically gifted player and a natural goalscorer she quickly progressed through the different ranks of the youth team.[1][7] One particular goal she scored after dribbling through four players in the derby against Espanyol on January 2017 trended across the internet.[8][9]

Pina made her first official appearance for the senior team in January 2018. Thus, being only 16 years and 5 months old at the time, she set the record as the youngest player to have ever played for a senior Barça team in an official match.[10]

International

Pina was first called up to play for the national u-16 team at the age of 14 by Toña Is.[2][11] In September 2016 she was invited for the first time to play for Spanish u-17 national team in a UEFA tournament in Příbram, where she scored 5 goals including a hat-trick in her debut match.[12][13] She later played her first official game for the Spanish u-17 national team in 2016 World Cup against Jordan,[14] scoring a goal in her first appearance.[15]

At the end of 2017 her name was announced as the top UEFA national-team goal scoring player among both female and male players, scoring 16 goals during the year.[16]

Honours

Barcelona B
International

References

  1. 1 2 "FC Barcelona – Femenino B - 2017/2018". FC Barcelona Official. Retrieved 8 March 2018.
  2. 1 2 3 "Claudia Pina, the Cristiano Ronaldo of Spain's under-17s". AS. Retrieved 3 October 2017.
  3. ↑ "RCD ESPANYOL FEMENÍ". Espanyol Base Femeni Wordpress. Retrieved 27 October 2011.
  4. ↑ "Report FC Barcelona 2013_14 English". Issuu. Retrieved 21 October 2014.
  5. ↑ "Women's Infantil-Alevín - 2014/ 2015". FC Barcelona Official. Retrieved 8 March 2018.
  6. ↑ "BARÇA WOMEN INFANTIN-ALEVÍN WIN THE LEAGUE TITLE". Grup14. Retrieved 25 March 2015.
  7. ↑ "FC Barcelona Femenino Juvenil-Cadete - 2015 / 2016". FC Barcelona Official. Retrieved 8 March 2018.
  8. ↑ "Don't know who Barcelona's 15-year-old Claudia Pina is?". Mirror. Retrieved 11 January 2017.
  9. ↑ "Amazing gol by Claudia Pina against Espanyol". Youtube. Retrieved 8 January 2017.
  10. ↑ "Precocity record for Claudia Pina". FC Barcelona Official. Retrieved 15 January 2018.
  11. ↑ "Spain U16 will be in the UEFA Development Tournament". Mucha Calidad. Retrieved 3 May 2016.
  12. ↑ "España arranca con victoria (4-0) ante Escocia el torneo de la República Checa". Sefutbol Official. Retrieved 6 Sep 2016.
  13. ↑ "España vence a Italia y consigue la victoria en el Torneo Amistoso UEFA (4-0)". Sefutbol Official. Retrieved 11 Sep 2016.
  14. ↑ "Better late than never for Pina and Hernandez". FIFA Official. Retrieved 14 October 2016.
  15. ↑ "Five-goal Navarro humbles hosts". FIFA Official. Retrieved 30 September 2016.
  16. ↑ "Guess who was the top UEFA competition scorer of 2017?". UEFA Official. Retrieved 8 December 2017.
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