Alba Pomares


Alba Pomares López is a Spanish football forward currently playing for Fundación Albacete.

Club career

Pomares missed just under a year of football after injuring her anterior cruciate ligament in a match against Fundación Albacete while playing for [RCD RCD Espanyol Femenino|Espanyol Femenino|Espanyol]. After playing seven seasons at Espanyol, she left the Catalan club and signed with Fundación Albacete in 2017. In her first season at Albacete, she, again, injured her anterior cruciate ligament, this time against Levante, and faced another lengthy absence.

International career

Pomares scored the only goal in extra time of the final of the 2011 U-17 European Championship against France to give the Spanish U-17 national team its second European Championship title in a row. Following the match, her teammates all signed the ball, which she kept as a souvenir. She also received a congratulatory phone call from Spain international Verónica Boquete.