Yamila Badell

Yamila Badell
Personal information
Birth name Yamila Badell Graña
Date of birth (1996-03-01) 1 March 1996
Place of birth Montevideo, Uruguay
Playing position Forward
Club information
Current team
 Tacón
Number 17
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2010–2015 Colón
2015–2016 Málaga
2016–2017 Colón
2017 – Tacón
National team
2012 Uruguay U17
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Yamila Badell Graña (born 1 March 1996[1]) is a Uruguayan footballer, the first player in her country to score in a FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup.

Career

Yamila Badell is the daughter of former footballer Gustavo Badell. She started playing baby football at the club Playa Honda, facing boys.[2] She later joined Colón Football Club of the AUF. In 2015 she emigrated to Spain to play for Málaga for half a season.[3][4] She returned to Colón in 2016 and the club won its fourth consecutive Uruguayan Championship.

Yamila participated in the 2012 South American Under-17 Women's Championship in Bolivia, where she was crowned the tournament's top scorer with 9 goals,[5] and together with her teammates achieved the historical first qualification of a Uruguayan women's team to a FIFA World Cup.[2][6]

In the U-17 World Cup, played in Azerbaijan, Uruguay lost its three matches, but Yamila managed to score twice in the last match against Germany (a 2–5 defeat), thus marking the first goal by a Uruguayan in a FIFA Women's World Cup.[7]

In December 2017, Badell joined Spanish club CD Tacón.[8][9]

World Cup record

Tournament Country Result Matches Goals
2012 U-17 Women's World Cup  Azerbaijan First round 3[1] 2[1]

Clubs

Club Country Year
Colón  Uruguay 2010–2015
Málaga  Spain 2015–2016
Colón  Uruguay 2016 – present

Clubs

Club Country Year
Colón  Uruguay 2010–2015
Málaga  Spain 2015–2016
Colón  Uruguay 2016–2017
Tacón  Spain 2017 – present

Individual awards

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Yamila Badell". FIFA. Retrieved 3 January 2018.
  2. 1 2 "Fútbol femenino 'cambia de a poco la realidad sexista'" [Women's Football 'Changes the Sexist Reality a Little'] (in Spanish). Radio Espectador. 27 March 2012. Retrieved 3 January 2018.
  3. ↑ Costas, Danilo (13 July 2017). "La selección femenina volvió a las canchas después de cuatro años sin jugar ni un amistoso" [The Women's Team Returned to the Pitch After Four Years Without Playing a Friendly Match]. El Observador Referi (in Spanish). Retrieved 3 January 2018.
  4. ↑ "Yamila Badell y Pamela González emigran al Málaga de España" [Yamila Badell and Pamela González Emigrate to Málaga of Spain] (in Spanish). Montevideo Portal. 20 August 2015. Retrieved 3 January 2018.
  5. ↑ "Yamila Badell: la goleadora del campeonato" [Yamila Badell: The Top Goal Scorer of the Tournament] (in Spanish). Teledoce. 28 March 2012. Retrieved 3 January 2018.
  6. ↑ Nogueira, Pablo (26 March 2012). "¡A Bakú!" [To Baku!]. La Diaria (in Spanish). Retrieved 3 January 2018.
  7. ↑ Sobrero, Alberto (30 September 2012). "Hicieron historia" [Making History] (in Spanish). Quenonino.com. Archived from the original on 5 October 2012. Retrieved 3 January 2018.
  8. ↑ "Seleccionada chilena deja Colo Colo y parte al fútbol español" [Chilean International Leaves Colo-Colo for Spanish Football]. La Tercera (in Spanish). 30 December 2017. Retrieved 3 January 2018.
  9. ↑ "Fútbol Femenino de exportación: Camila Sáez deja Colo Colo para sumarse a equipo español" [Women's Football Export: Camila Sáez Leaves Colo-Colo to Join Spanish Team]. El Mostrador (in Spanish). 30 December 2017. Retrieved 3 January 2018.
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