Nerea_Eizagirre
Nerea Eizagirre
Spanish footballer (born 2000)
Nerea Eizagirre[lower-alpha 1] Lasa (born 4 January 2000) is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Liga F club Real Sociedad and the Spain women's national team.
 Eizagirre playing for Real Sociedad | |||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Nerea Eizagirre[lower-alpha 1] Lasa | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | (2000-01-04) 4 January 2000 (age 24)[4] | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Tolosa, Spain | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.64 m (5 ft 5 in) | ||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Midfielder | ||||||||||||||||
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Current team | Real Sociedad | ||||||||||||||||
| Number | 10 | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| Añorga | |||||||||||||||||
| 2016– | Real Sociedad | 187 | (47) | ||||||||||||||
| International career‡ | |||||||||||||||||
| 2016–2017 | Spain U17 | 8 | (3) | ||||||||||||||
| 2017–2019 | Spain U19 | 15 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2020–2022 | Spain | 10 | (2) | ||||||||||||||
| 2022– | Basque Country | 1 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 08:22, 17 December 2023 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 08:22, 17 December 2023 (UTC) | |||||||||||||||||
Eizagirre was playing for Añorga prior to joining Real Sociedad aged 16.[5] She was a member of the group which won the 2018–19 Copa de la Reina and finished as runners-up in the 2021–22 Primera División. In November 2023, now club captain, she made her 200th appearance for the Txuri-urdin aged 23.[6]
Eizagirre played for the Spain under-17 team at the 2016 Euros in Belarus (they were beaten in the final by Germany via a penalty shootout), the 2016 World Cup in Jordan (bronze medallists) and the 2017 Euros in the Czech Republic (beaten on penalties by Germany in the final again). She then moved up to the under-19s, claiming a winner's medal from the 2018 Euros in Switzerland and also playing in the 2019 Euros in Scotland (Spain were eliminated in the semi-finals by winners France, with the scheduled 2020 Under-20 World Cup in Central America for which they had qualified later cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic).
Following some good form for her club including several goals, Eizagirre earned a call-up to the senior Spain squad in October 2020.[7] She made her debut against the Czech Republic, coming on as a substitute for Esther González.[8][9] She was among Las 15, a group of players who made themselves unavailable for international selection in September 2022 due to their dissatisfaction with head coach Jorge Vilda, and one of the dozen who were not involved 11 months later as Spain won the World Cup.[10][11]
She has also been selected for the unofficial Basque Country women's national football team which plays only occasionally, making her first appearance in December 2022 against Chile in which she opened the scoring.[12]
Nerea Eizagirre – goals for  Spain | ||||||
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| No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
| 1. | 18 February 2021 | ASK Arena, Baku, Azerbaijan |  Azerbaijan | 11–0 | 13–0 | UEFA Women's Euro 2022 qualifying |
| 2. | 26 October 2021 | Kolos Stadium, Kovalivka, Ukraine |  Ukraine | 3–0 | 6–0 | 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification |
Nerea Eizagirre – goals for  Basque Country | ||||||
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| # | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
| 1. | 20 December 2022 | Campo José Luis Orbegozo, San Sebastián |  Chile | 1–0 | 3–0 | Friendly |
- "Nerea Eizaguirre". UEFA. Retrieved 30 January 2021.
- "Nerea Eizagirre". La Liga. Retrieved 30 January 2021.
- "Nerea Eizagirre". Instagram. Retrieved 30 January 2021.
- Nerea Eizagirre at Soccerway. Retrieved 30 January 2021.
- Isasa, Xabier (9 November 2020). "Nerea Eizagirre, una veterana de 20 años" [Nerea Eizagirre, a 20-year-old veteran]. Mundo Deportivo (in Spanish). Retrieved 30 January 2021.
- Griñán, Marta (21 December 2022). "Eizagirre: "Zornoza es una jugadora que me ayudó muchísimo"" [Eizagirre: "Zornoza is a player who helped me a lot"]. Diario AS (in Spanish).
- Jiménez, Mayca (24 December 2020). "Nerea Eizagirre, un realidad forjada a base de golazos". Diario AS (in Spanish). Retrieved 30 January 2021.
- "Spain vs Czech Republic". Global Sports Archive. Retrieved 30 January 2021.
- "Nerea Eizaguirre". Global Sports Archive. Retrieved 30 January 2021.
- Jorge Vilda Recalls Players Who Resigned Back Into His Spanish World Cup Squad, Asif Burhan, Forbes, June 12, 2023
- Spain v Sweden: Las 15+3, An International Team In Chaos And Lonely Jorge Vilda, Simon Lillicrap, The Sportsman, 14 August 2023
- "La Euskal Selekzioa logra una contundente victoria ante Chile (3-0)" [The Basque Selection achieves a resounding victory against Chile (3-0)]. EITB (in Spanish). 21 December 2022.
