Marta Torrejón

Marta Torrejón
Personal information
Full name Marta Torrejón Moya[1]
Date of birth (1990-02-27) 27 February 1990[1]
Place of birth Mataró, Catalonia, Spain
Height 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)[1]
Playing position Defender
Club information
Current team
FC Barcelona
Number 8
Youth career
1998–2001 CF Salesians
2001–2004 Espanyol
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2004–2013 RCD Espanyol
2013– FC Barcelona 65 (6)
National team
2006–2009 Spain U-19 23 (6)
2007– Spain 80 (9)
2007– Catalonia 3 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Marta Torrejón Moya (born 27 February 1990) is a Spanish football player who plays as a defender for FC Barcelona and the Spanish national team.[2] Her brother is Marc Torrejón, a footballer who plays in Germany for 1. FC Union Berlin.[3][4][5]

Club career

Despite her relatively young age, Torrejón has won one League and three national cups, having debuted in the Superliga Femenina at just 14 years old.

International career

Torrejón made her senior Spain women's national football team debut in November 2007, a 1–0 defeat to England in Shrewsbury.[6]

In June 2013 national team coach Ignacio Quereda selected Torrejón in the squad for UEFA Women's Euro 2013 in Sweden.[7] She played every minute of Spain's campaign, which ended with a 3–1 defeat to Norway in the quarter-finals.

She also was part of Spain's squad for the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup in Canada.[1]

Goals for the Spanish WNT in official competitions
CompetitionStageDateLocationOpponentGoalsResultOverall
2009 UEFA EuroQualifiers2008–05–08Las Rozas Czech Republic14–11
2011 FIFA World CupQualifiers2010–04–07Guadalajara Turkey15–11
2013 UEFA EuroQualifiers2012–04–05Las Rozas Kazakhstan113–01
2015 FIFA World CupQualifiers2013–10–27Collado Estonia16–02
2014–04–10Skopje Macedonia110–0
2017 UEFA EuroQualifiers2016–09–26Leganés Finland15–01

Honours

Torrejón captaining Espanyol in 2012

Club

RCD Espanyol
FC Barcelona
Spain

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "List of Players - 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup" (PDF). Fédération Internationale de Football Association. Retrieved 18 June 2015.
  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-03-31. Retrieved 2013-03-31. RFEF
  3. Roldán, Isabel (22 October 2011). "No acostumbran a compararme con mi hermano Marc" [I'm not compared to my brother Marc very often] (in Spanish). Diario AS. Retrieved 13 May 2013.
  4. "Europe's footballing brothers and sisters". UEFA. 9 February 2017.
  5. "TORREJÓN". Soccerway. 4 October 2018.
  6. Roldán, Isabel (20 November 2007). "Vilas y Torrejón, nuevas caras para la Absoluta" [Vilas and Torrejón, new faces for the Absolute] (in Spanish). Diario AS. Retrieved 3 August 2013.
  7. "Spain stick with tried and trusted". Uefa.com. UEFA. 29 June 2013. Retrieved 3 August 2013.
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