Nerea Eizagirre
Nerea Eizagirre Lasa is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Liga F club Real Sociedad and the Spain women's national team.
Club career
Eizagirre was playing for Añorga prior to joining Real Sociedad aged 16. 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.International career
Eizagirre played for the Spain under-17 team at the 2016 Euros in Belarus, the 2016 World Cup in Jordan and the 2017 Euros in the Czech Republic. 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.Following some good form for her club including several goals, Eizagirre earned a call-up to the senior Spain squad in October 2020. She made her debut against the Czech Republic, coming on as a substitute for Esther González. 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.
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.