Clàudia Pina

Clàudia Pina Medina (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈklawðja ˈpina]; 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.

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Pina and the second or maternal family name is Medina.
Clàudia Pina
Pina in 2023
Personal information
Full name Clàudia Pina Medina
Date of birth (2001-08-12) 12 August 2001
Place of birth Montcada i Reixac, Spain
Height 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)
Position(s) Forward
Team information
Current team
 Barcelona
Number 6
Youth career
2011–2013 Espanyol
2013–2014 Barcelona
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2016–2020 Barcelona B 16+ (15+)
2017– Barcelona 61 (27)
2020–2021 → Sevilla (loan) 34 (9)
International career‡
2016–2018 Spain U-17 29 (35)
2019–2020 Spain U-19 5 (7)
2018–2023 Spain U-20 5 (1)
2021–2023 Spain 6 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 1 July 2023
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 23:20, 31 July 2022 (UTC)

Club career

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 Lopez, 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] but returned to the Catalan team the following year.

In February 2023, Pina extended her contract with the club until June 2026.[13]

International career

Pina was first called up to play for the national U-16 team at the age of 14 by Toña Is.[1][14] 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.[15][16] She later played her first official game for the Spanish U-17 national team in 2016 World Cup against Jordan,[17] scoring a goal in her first appearance.[18]

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.[19]

In 2021, she made her debut with the senior team in a friendly against Denmark.[20]

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.[21][22]

Career statistics

Club
As of match played 3 June 2023[23]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League Copa de la Reina Europe Other Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Barcelona 2017–18 Primera División 100000–10
2018–19 102101[lower-alpha 1]0–122
2019–20 4010100[lower-alpha 2]060
2021–22 24154282103719
2022–23 22100073213114
Total 612762175318735
Sevilla (loan) 2019–20 Primera División 0010––10
2020–21 34911––3510
Total 34921––3610
Career total 9536831753112345
  1. Appearances in the UEFA Women's Champions League.
  2. Appearances in Supercopa de España

Honours
Barcelona B
FC Barcelona

Spain Youth

Individual

References
  1. "Claudia Pina, the Cristiano Ronaldo of Spain's under-17s". AS. 3 October 2017. 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. 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. 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. 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. "Spain U16 will be in the UEFA Development Tournament". Mucha Calidad. Archived from the original on 11 July 2018. Retrieved 3 May 2016.
  15. "España arranca con victoria (4-0) ante Escocia el torneo de la República Checa". Sefutbol Official. Retrieved 6 September 2016.
  16. "España vence a Italia y consigue la victoria en el Torneo Amistoso UEFA (4-0)". Sefutbol Official. Retrieved 11 September 2016.
  17. "Better late than never for Pina and Hernandez". FIFA Official. Archived from the original on 15 October 2016. Retrieved 14 October 2016.
  18. "Five-goal Navarro humbles hosts". FIFA Official. Archived from the original on 2 October 2016. Retrieved 30 September 2016.
  19. "Guess who was the top UEFA competition scorer of 2017?". UEFA Official. 8 December 2017. Retrieved 8 December 2017.
  20. "Claudia Pina, Rosa Márquez y Anna Torrodà cumplen su sueño de debutar con España". Sefutbol Official. Retrieved 8 August 2021.
  21. Jorge Vilda Recalls Players Who Resigned Back Into His Spanish World Cup Squad, Asif Burhan, Forbes, June 12, 2023
  22. Spain v Sweden: Las 15+3, An International Team In Chaos And Lonely Jorge Vilda, Simon Lillicrap, The Sportsman, 14 August 2023
  23. Clàudia Pina at Soccerway
  24. 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.
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