Olga Carmona
 Carmona in 2020 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Olga Carmona García | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 12 June 2000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Seville, Spain | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.59 m (5 ft 3 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Left back, winger, wing-back | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Current team | Real Madrid | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Number | 7 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2006–2007 | Sevilla Este | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2007–2017 | Sevilla | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2017–2020 | Sevilla | 65 | (7) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2020– | Real Madrid | 82 | (10) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| National team‡ | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2018 | Spain U19 | 4 | (1) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2021– | Spain U23 | 2 | (0) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2021– | Spain | 22 | (3) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Honours
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 19 May 2023 ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 20 August 2023 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Olga Carmona García (born June 12, 2000) is a professional football player from Spain. She plays as a left back for a team named Real Madrid in Liga F, and she also represents the Spain national team. She was born in Seville, a city in Andalusia. Carmona started playing football when she was six years old with Sevilla Este.[1]
Career
[change | change source]In her first season as a professional player, Carmona played 25 matches and scored five goals for the team Sevilla. They finished in the 12th position.[2] In 2007, she joined the youth team of Sevilla FC and stayed there for nine years. During the 2016–17 season, Carmona moved up to the first team, which played in the second division of Spanish soccer, known as Segunda División. In her first year with the team, they got promoted to the top division, called Primera División. For the next three years, her team ranked in the middle of the league. Carmona also got to the semi-finals of two domestic cup tournaments, the 2018–19 and 2019–20, but her team Sevilla lost to Real Sociedad and FC Barcelona, respectively.
In the summer of 2020, Carmona joined Real Madrid's newly created women's soccer team.[3] She was part of the U-19 Spanish national team that won the 2018 European Championship. They beat Germany 1–0 in the final, and Carmona scored four goals in the qualifying matches and the finals. She also played in the U-19 European Championship finals again the next year, but her team lost in the semi-finals against France.
On April 13, 2021, Carmona played her first match for the senior national team of Spain in a friendly game against Mexico. In the year 2023, Carmona played an important role in Spain's victory in the FIFA World Cup. She became the captain of the Spain squad in both the semi-final and final matches, and she scored important goals in both of these matches. During the semi-final match against Sweden on August 15, Carmona scored a goal from far away, helping her team win 2–1. In the championship match against England, she scored the only goal of the game, which led Spain to a 1–0 victory, and they became the champions.[4] Carmona was also chosen as the best player in the final match.[5]
Career statistics
[change | change source]| No. | Date | venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
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| 1. | 19 February 2023 | CommBank Stadium, Sydney, Australia |  Australia
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1–3 | 2–3 | 2023 Cup of Nations |
| 2. | 15 August 2023 | Eden Park, Auckland, New Zealand |  Sweden
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2–1 | 2–1 | 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup |
| 3. | 20 August 2023 | Stadium Australia, Sydney, Australia |  England
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1–0 | 1–0 |
Honours
[change | change source]Spain
Spain U19
References
[change | change source]- ↑ "Olga Carmona: el futuro del Sevilla femenino" [Olga Carmona: the future of Sevilla Women's] (in Spanish). Diario AS. 14 December 2019. Retrieved 14 December 2019.
- ↑ "Olga Carmona, cinco goles esta campaña con el Sevilla FC Femenino" [Olga Carmona, five goals this season with Sevilla FC Femenino] (in Spanish). El Corner de Sur. 29 April 2018. Retrieved 14 December 2019.
- ↑ "La perla sevillana Olga Carmona fichará por el Real Madrid". Diario AS (in Spanish). 30 June 2020. Retrieved 4 August 2023.
- ↑ "Spain's Olga Carmona scores goal vs. England in 29'" (video). Fox Sports. 2023-08-20. Retrieved 2023-08-20.
- ↑ "Spain 1-0 England match report". FIFA. 2023-08-20. Retrieved 2023-08-20.