Damaris Egurrola
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Damaris Berta Egurrola Wienke | ||
Date of birth | 26 August 1999 | ||
Place of birth | Orlando, Florida, United States | ||
Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||
Position(s) | Defensive midfielder | ||
Club information | |||
Current team | Lyon | ||
Number | 11 | ||
Youth career | |||
–2012 | Betiko Neskak (eu) | ||
2012–2014 | Athletic Bilbao | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2014–2016 | Athletic Bilbao B | 25 | (9) |
2015–2020 | Athletic Bilbao | 104 | (4) |
2020–2021 | Everton | 6 | (0) |
2021– | Lyon | 16 | (3) |
National team‡ | |||
2016 | Spain U17 | 4 | (0) |
2017–2018 | Spain U19 | 13 | (6) |
2018 | Spain U20 | 6 | (0) |
2019 | Spain | 1 | (0) |
2022– | Netherlands | 10 | (3) |
2017 | Basque Country | 1 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 1 June 2022 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 6 September 2022 |
Damaris Berta Egurrola Wienke (born 26 August 1999) is a professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for French Division 1 Féminine club Lyon and the Netherlands national team. At club level, she made her debut with Athletic Bilbao in 2015, moved to Everton in 2020 then signed for Lyon in January 2021.
Born in the United States, she made her senior debut for the Spanish national team in 2019; in 2022, she filed a one-time switch to represent the Netherlands national team instead.
Club career
Early life
Egurrola spent her early childhood in Orlando, Florida, the second of three children born to a Dutch mother and a Spanish-Basque father (Pablo Egurrola Osa, a professional pelotari competing in American Jai Alai leagues); when he retired in 2006, the family relocated to his homeland in eastern Biscay in Spain's Basque Country.
Athletic Bilbao
After playing youth football at clubs in the Gernika area, Egurrola – who also showed a talent for tennis – signed for Athletic Bilbao in 2012, aged 12, meeting the club's selective signing criteria due to her local upbringing. Following three years at affiliated lower-division clubs, including Betiko Neskak in Erandio and the Athletic B-team, she made her senior team debut in December 2015, making six appearances in the 2015–16 Primera División as Athletic finished as champions, and became a regular from then on. Along with teammate and friend Maite Oroz, she decided to leave the club when her contract expired in the summer of 2020. In July 2020, a court case regarding the legality of 'compensation lists' for players in Spanish women's football confirmed that a new employer would not have to pay a fee to Athletic Bilbao.
Everton
After announcing leaving Athletic Bilbao at the end of her contract, Damaris Egurrola drew interest from major European clubs, including Everton, which ultimately signed the midfielder on a two-year deal in early September 2020. Egurrola made her debut in the FA WSL on 3 October, in a 6–0 win over Aston Villa. Egurrola quickly settled as an instrumental player for the team, starting all subsequent games. Teammate Izzy Christiansen described Damaris as an "incredible talent", impressed by the Spaniard's debut with her new team.
Olympique Lyonnais
Only four months after signing for Everton, rumors started to spread about a new potential move for Egurrola. European champions Olympique Lyonnais were reportedly interested in signing the midfielder in the winter transfer window to address their difficulties in the league. Damaris signed for OL on a three-year and a half deal on 20 January 2021, and made her debut in a Coupe de France game against Stade de Reims. Soon after, Damaris made her debut in both Division 1 Féminine and the UEFA Women's Champions League, both ending in wins and clean sheets.
Egurrola established herself as a starter in the start of the 2021–22 season, proving to be an important member of the team.
International career
Through birth and descent, Egurrola was eligible to play for the United States, Spain and the Netherlands. She was involved with Spanish national age-group teams at several levels and with much success, being a member of the under-17 squad that claimed the silver medal at the 2016 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship and bronze at the 2016 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup; the under-19 squad which won the 2017 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship, (using her height to score a header in the final victory over France) – she also helped the 19s to qualify for the 2018 edition which they again won, but had moved to the higher age group by the time of the finals tournament – and the under-20 squad who were runners-up at the 2018 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup.
Egurrola made her Spain senior debut in May 2019, aged 19, appearing as a substitute for the closing minutes of a 4–0 friendly win over Cameroon in the build-up to the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup, although she was not selected in the eventual finals squad. In October 2019, she was called up to the inaugural squad for España Promesas (essentially Spain B), along with two clubmates. She has also played for the unofficial Basque Country team.
Two years after her appearance for Spain, in November 2021 the Spain national team coach Jorge Vilda stated that he had tried to call up Egurrola up twice over the past few months, and to talk to her over the phone on multiple occasions; the player's agents refuted this, responding that these call-ups referred to the Promesas (under-23s) rather than the senior team, and that there had been no attempt to reach out to her personally over the past two years. It was also disclosed that Egurrola had elected to play for another national team, at that time not identified (but one of the two teams in the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup Final).
After filing a one-time switch, Egurrola committed to the Netherlands national team in March 2022. She made her debut on 8 April 2022.
Career statistics
International
- As of match played 6 September 2022
National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
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Spain | 2019 | 1 | 0 |
Netherlands | 2022 | 10 | 3 |
Career total | 11 | 3 |
- Scores and results list Netherlands' goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Egurrola goal.
No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
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1 | 12 April 2022 | ADO Den Haag Stadium, The Hague, Netherlands | South Africa | 4–1 | 5–1 | Friendly |
2 | 5–1 | |||||
3 | 13 July 2022 | Leigh Sports Village, Leigh, England | Portugal | 1–0 | 3–2 | UEFA Women's Euro 2022 |
Honours
Athletic Bilbao
Olympique Lyonnais
- 1999 births
- Living people
- Citizens of Spain through descent
- People from Busturialdea
- Footballers from the Basque Country (autonomous community)
- Spanish women's footballers
- Women's association football midfielders
- Athletic Club Femenino players
- Everton F.C. (women) players
- Olympique Lyonnais Féminin players
- Primera División (women) players
- Women's Super League players
- Spain women's international footballers
- Spanish people of Dutch descent
- Spanish expatriate women's footballers
- Spanish expatriate sportspeople in England
- Expatriate women's footballers in England
- Spanish expatriate sportspeople in France
- Expatriate women's footballers in France
- Soccer players from Orlando, Florida
- American women's soccer players
- Hispanic and Latino American sportspeople
- American people of Spanish descent
- American people of Basque descent
- American people of Dutch descent
- American expatriate women's soccer players
- American expatriate sportspeople in England
- American expatriate sportspeople in France
- Athletic Club Femenino B players
- 21st-century American women
- Netherlands women's international footballers
- Dutch expatriate women's footballers
- Dutch expatriate sportspeople in France
- Dual internationalists (women's football)
- UEFA Women's Euro 2022 players