Jump to content

Clàudia Pina

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Clàudia Pina
Pina in 2023
Personal information
Full name Clàudia Pina Medina
Date of birth (2001-08-12) 12 August 2001 (age 23)
Place of birth Montcada i Reixac, Spain
Height 1.60 m (5 ft 3 in)
Position(s) Forward
Team information
Current team
Barcelona
Number 9
Youth career
2011–2013 Espanyol
2013–2014 Barcelona
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2016–2020 Barcelona B 16+ (15+)
2017– Barcelona 90 (40)
2020–2021Sevilla (loan) 34 (9)
International career
2016–2018 Spain U-17 29 (35)
2019 Spain U-19 8 (7)
2018 Spain U-20 5 (1)
2021–2023 Spain 6 (0)
2021 Spain U23 1 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 13:00, 10 July 2024 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 06:00, 23 December 2023 (UTC)

Clàudia Pina Medina (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈklawðja ˈpina] listen; born 12 August 2001) is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a forward for Liga F club FC Barcelona and the Spain women's national team.

Club career

[edit]

Pina was formerly a futsal player in Montcada before being discovered by Espanyol's scouts in 2011 and subsequently joining their youth team.[1][2] She moved to Barcelona's infantil-alevín team from Espanyol in 2013,[1][3] and in her second season, she helped the team to win the youth league championship by scoring 100 goals in her 20 appearances.[4][5] After proving herself as a technically gifted player and a natural goalscorer she quickly progressed through the different ranks of the youth team.[6][7] One particular goal she scored after dribbling through four players in the derby against Espanyol in January 2017 trended across the internet.[8][9]

Pina made her first official appearance for the senior team in January 2018. Thus, being only 16 years and 5 months old at the time, she set the record as the youngest player to have ever played for a senior Barça team in an official match.[10] That record has been beaten by Vicky López, being 16 years, one month and 19 days old, on 17 September 2022.[11]

In the summer of 2020, Pina was sent on loan to Sevilla for one season, alongside Barcelona teammate Carla Armengol.[12]

In February 2023, Pina extended her contract with the club until June 2026.[13] She played among the most minutes in the league for Barcelona in the 2023–24 season. She showed strong link-up play with Alexia Putellas, and Sport reported that, however she played, "things always happen when she has the ball".[14]

International career

[edit]

Pina was first called up to play for the national U-16 team at the age of 14 by Toña Is.[1][15] In September 2016 she was invited for the first time to play for Spanish U-17 national team in a UEFA tournament in Příbram, where she scored 5 goals including a hat-trick in her debut match.[16][17] She later played her first official game for the Spanish U-17 national team in 2016 World Cup against Jordan,[18] scoring a goal in her first appearance.[19]

At the end of 2017 her name was announced as the top UEFA national-team goal scoring player among both female and male players, scoring 16 goals during the year.[20]

In 2021, she made her debut with the senior team in a friendly against Denmark.[21]

She was one of 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 among the dozen who were not involved 11 months later as Spain won the World Cup.[22][23]

Career statistics

[edit]
Pina with Barcelona in March 2024

Club

[edit]
As of match played 16 June 2024[24]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League Copa de la Reina Europe Other Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Barcelona 2017–18 Primera División 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
2018–19 10 2 1 0 1[a] 0 12 2
2019–20 4 0 1 0 1 0 0[b] 0 6 0
2021–22 24 15 4 2 8 2 1 0 37 19
2022–23 22 10 0 0 7 3 2 1 31 14
2023–24 29 13 4 2 9 1 2 0 44 16
Total 90 40 10 4 26 6 5 1 131 51
Sevilla (loan) 2019–20 Primera División 0 0 1 0 1 0
2020–21 34 9 1 1 35 10
Total 34 9 2 1 36 10
Career total 124 49 12 5 26 6 5 1 167 61
  1. ^ Appearances in the UEFA Women's Champions League.
  2. ^ Appearances in Supercopa de España

International goals

[edit]

Spain U17

[edit]
No. Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
1. 6 September 2016 Příbram, Czech Republic  Scotland 2–0 4–0 Friendly
2. 3–0
3. 4–0
4. 11 September 2016  Italy 3–0 4–0
5. 4–0
6. 30 September 2016 Amman, Jordan  Jordan 6–0 6–0 2016 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup
7. 28 March 2017 Oeiras, Portugal  Portugal 1–0 6–1 2017 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship qualification
8. 2–0
9. 6–0
10. 5 May 2017 Domažlice, Czech Republic  Czech Republic 1–0 5–1 2017 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship
11. 11 May 2017  Netherlands 2–0 2–0
12. 2 October 2017 Baku, Azerbaijan  Montenegro 3–0 22–0 2018 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship qualification
13. 5–0
14. 6–0
15. 9–0
16. 11–0
17. 12–0
18. 22–0
19. 5 October 2017  Azerbaijan 1–0 3–0
20. 3–0
21. 8 October 2017  Iceland 1–0 2–1
22. 2–1
23. 8 March 2018 Shefayim, Israel  Israel 1–0 7–0
24. 6–0
25. 11 March 2018 Ramat Gan, Israel  Russia 2–0 4–0
26. 14 March 2018  Denmark 1–0 1–0
27. 14 November 2018 Montevideo, Uruguay  South Korea 2–0 4–0 2018 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup
28. 4–0
29. 21 November 2018  Canada 3–0 5–0
30. 24 November 2018 Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay  North Korea 1–0 1–1 (3–1 p)
31. 28 November 2018 Montevideo, Uruguay  New Zealand 1–0 2–0
32. 1 December 2018  Mexico 1–0 2–1
33. 2–0

Spain U20

[edit]
No. Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
1. 6 August 2018 Concarneau, France  Paraguay 2–0 4–1 2018 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup

Spain U19

[edit]
No. Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
1. 6 April 2019 Santiago de Compostela, Spain  Hungary 3–0 7–0 2019 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship qualification
2. 4–0
3. 5–0
4. 6–0
5. 9 April 2019  Republic of Ireland 1–0 3–0
6. 2–0
7. 16 July 2019 Stirling, Scotland  Belgium 1–0 2–0 2019 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship

Honours

[edit]
Barcelona B
FC Barcelona

Spain Youth

Individual

References

[edit]
  1. ^ a b c "Claudia Pina, the Cristiano Ronaldo of Spain's under-17s". AS. 3 October 2017. Archived from the original on 30 November 2023. Retrieved 3 October 2017.
  2. ^ "RCD ESPANYOL FEMENÍ". Espanyol Base Femeni Wordpress. 27 October 2011. Retrieved 27 October 2011.
  3. ^ "Report FC Barcelona 2013_14 English". Issuu. 21 October 2014. Retrieved 21 October 2014.
  4. ^ "Women's Infantil-Alevín - 2014/ 2015". FC Barcelona Official. Retrieved 8 March 2018.
  5. ^ "BARÇA WOMEN INFANTIN-ALEVÍN WIN THE LEAGUE TITLE". Grup14. Archived from the original on 8 March 2018. Retrieved 25 March 2015.
  6. ^ "FC Barcelona – Femenino B - 2017/2018". FC Barcelona Official. Retrieved 8 March 2018.
  7. ^ "FC Barcelona Femenino Juvenil-Cadete - 2015 / 2016". FC Barcelona Official. Archived from the original on 30 November 2023. Retrieved 8 March 2018.
  8. ^ "Don't know who Barcelona's 15-year-old Claudia Pina is?". Mirror. 11 January 2017. Retrieved 11 January 2017.
  9. ^ "Amazing gol by Claudia Pina against Espanyol". Youtube. 8 January 2017. Retrieved 8 January 2017.
  10. ^ "Precocity record for Claudia Pina". FC Barcelona Official. Retrieved 15 January 2018.
  11. ^ "Football – Vicky Lopez explose un record de précocité au FC Barcelone !". Women Sports (in French). 18 September 2022. Retrieved 20 March 2023.
  12. ^ "Claudia Pina, cedida al Sevilla". fcbarcelona.es. FC Barcelona. 18 July 2020. Retrieved 12 May 2021.
  13. ^ "Pina renueva hasta 2026". F.C. Barcelona (in Spanish). 22 February 2023. Retrieved 4 March 2023.
  14. ^ Tikas, Maria (30 May 2024). "El 1x1 de una temporada perfecta". Diario Sport (in Spanish). Retrieved 7 July 2024.
  15. ^ "Spain U16 will be in the UEFA Development Tournament". Mucha Calidad. Archived from the original on 11 July 2018. Retrieved 3 May 2016.
  16. ^ "España arranca con victoria (4-0) ante Escocia el torneo de la República Checa". Sefutbol Official. Archived from the original on 12 June 2018. Retrieved 6 September 2016.
  17. ^ "España vence a Italia y consigue la victoria en el Torneo Amistoso UEFA (4-0)". Sefutbol Official. Archived from the original on 15 March 2018. Retrieved 11 September 2016.
  18. ^ "Better late than never for Pina and Hernandez". FIFA Official. Archived from the original on 15 October 2016. Retrieved 14 October 2016.
  19. ^ "Five-goal Navarro humbles hosts". FIFA Official. Archived from the original on 2 October 2016. Retrieved 30 September 2016.
  20. ^ "Guess who was the top UEFA competition scorer of 2017?". UEFA Official. 8 December 2017. Retrieved 8 December 2017.
  21. ^ "Claudia Pina, Rosa Márquez y Anna Torrodà cumplen su sueño de debutar con España". Sefutbol Official. Archived from the original on 20 December 2021. Retrieved 8 August 2021.
  22. ^ Jorge Vilda Recalls Players Who Resigned Back Into His Spanish World Cup Squad, Asif Burhan, Forbes, June 12, 2023
  23. ^ Spain v Sweden: Las 15+3, An International Team In Chaos And Lonely Jorge Vilda, Simon Lillicrap, The Sportsman, 14 August 2023
  24. ^ Clàudia Pina at Soccerway
  25. ^ Wrack, Suzanne (3 June 2023). "Rolfö caps Barcelona comeback against Wolfsburg to win thrilling WCL final". The Guardian. ISSN 0029-7712. Retrieved 7 June 2023.
  26. ^ "Barcelona retains Women's Champions League title, completing historic quadruple". CNN. 25 May 2024. Retrieved 25 May 2024.
[edit]