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, Spain
Height 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)[1]
Playing position Defender
Club information
Current team
 FC Barcelona
Number 18
Youth career
1998–2001 CF Salesians
2001–2004 Espanyol
Senior career*
Years Team Apps† (Gls)†
2004–2013 RCD Espanyol
2013– FC Barcelona 30 (6)
National team
2006–2009 Spain U-19 23 (6)
2007– Spain 61 (7)
2007– Catalonia 3 (0)

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

† Appearances (goals)
This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Torrejón and the second or maternal family name is Moya.

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 Kaiserslautern.[3]

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.

Torrejón captaining Espanyol in 2012

International career

Torrejón made her senior Spain women's national football team debut in November 2007, a 1–0 defeat to England in Shrewsbury.[4] Despite usually playing as a centre back, she has scored both at the 2009 Euro and 2011 World Cup qualifying stages.

In June 2013 national team coach Ignacio Quereda selected Torrejón in the squad for UEFA Women's Euro 2013 in Sweden.[5] She played every minute of Spain's campaign, which ended with a 3–1 defeat to Norway in the quarter-finals.

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

Official international goals

Honours

Club

RCD Espanyol
FC Barcelona

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. ↑ 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. ↑ 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.
  5. ↑ "Spain stick with tried and trusted". Uefa.com. UEFA. 29 June 2013. Retrieved 3 August 2013.

External links

FC Barcelona (women) – current squad
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