Damaris Egurrola
Damaris Berta Egurrola Wienke (born 26 August 1999) is a professional footballer who plays for Athletic Bilbao as a defensive midfielder. Born in the United States, she made her senior debut for Spain in 2019.
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Damaris Berta Egurrola Wienke | ||
Date of birth | 26 August 1999 | ||
Place of birth | Orlando, Florida, United States | ||
Height | 1.76 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in)[1] | ||
Playing position(s) | Defensive midfielder[2] | ||
Club information | |||
Current team | Athletic Bilbao | ||
Number | 6 | ||
Youth career | |||
Betiko Neskak (eu) | |||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2014–2016 | Athletic Bilbao B | 25 | (9) |
2015– | Athletic Bilbao | 84 | (2) |
National team‡ | |||
2016 | Spain U17 | 4 | (0) |
2017–2018 | Spain U19 | 13 | (6) |
2017– | Basque Country | 1 | (0) |
2018 | Spain U20 | 6 | (0) |
2019– | Spain | 1 | (0) |
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 01:51, 24 July 2019 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 01:51, 24 July 2019 (UTC) |
Club career
Early life
Egurrola spent her early childhood in Orlando, Florida, the second of three children born to a Dutch mother and a Spanish-Basque father (Pablo Egurrola Osa,[3] a professional pelotari competing in American Jai Alai leagues);[4] when he retired in 2006, the family emigrated to his homeland in eastern Biscay in Spain's Basque Country.[2][4] Damaris became a polyglot, speaking Spanish, English, Basque and Dutch to a high standard.[4]
Athletic Bilbao
After playing youth football at clubs in the Gernika area,[2] Egurrola – who also showed a talent for tennis – signed for Athletic Bilbao in 2012, aged 12,[4] meeting the club's selective signing criteria due to her local upbringing. Following three years at affiliated lower-division clubs, including Betiko Neskak in Erandio and the Athletic B-team, she made her senior team debut in December 2015, making six appearances in the 2015–16 Primera División as Athletic finished as champions,[4] and became a regular from then on.
International career
Egurrola was involved with Spanish national age-group teams at several levels and with much success,[2][4] being a member of the under-17 squad that claimed the silver medal at the 2016 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship and bronze at the 2016 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup;[1] the under-19 squad which won the 2017 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship,[1] (using her height to score a header in the final victory over France)[2] – she also helped the 19s to qualify for the 2018 edition which they again won, but had moved to the higher age group by the time of the finals tournament – and the under-20 squad who were runners-up at the 2018 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup.[1][5]
She made her Spain senior debut in May 2019, aged 19, appearing as a substitute for the closing minutes of a 4–0 friendly win over Cameroon in the build-up to the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup, although she was not selected in the eventual finals squad.[6] In October 2019, she was called up to the inaugural squad for España Promesas (essentially Spain B), along with two clubmates.[7][8]
She has also played for the unofficial Basque Country team.[9]
References
- Damaris Egurrola, Soccerway
- Spain’s Egurrola talks tactics, FIFA, 18 August 2018
- Osa II, Zesta Puntaren Lagunak (in Spanish)
- La hija del pelotari [The pelotari's daughter], El País, 18 December 2019 (in Spanish)
- Japan cruise to maiden world title, FIFA, 24 August 2018
- Embaladas hacia el Mundial (4–0) [Packed for the World Cup (4-0)], Royal Spanish Football Federation, 17 May 2019 (in Spanish)
- Oroz, Azkona and Damaris, with the Spanish Promesas, Athletic Bilbao, 30 October 2019
- Oficial: La RFEF crea la Selección Absoluta Promesas, una nueva selección femenina de fútbol (Official: The RFEF creates the Absolute Promises Selection, a new women's team), SEfutbol (in Spanish), 29 October 2019
- Euskal Selekzioa 2–1 Chequia, Basque Football Federation, 25 November 2017 (in Basque)