Andrea Sierra

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Sierra and the second or maternal family name is Larrauri.

Andrea Sierra
Personal information
Full name Andrea Maddalen Sierra Larrauri
Date of birth (1998-05-15) 15 May 1998 (age 26)[1]
Place of birth Bilbao, Spain[2]
Height 1.69 m (5 ft 7 in)[2]
Position(s) Defender
Team information
Current team
 Eibar
Number 5
Youth career
Loiola Indautxu[3]
2012–2014 Bizkerre
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2014–2016 Athletic Club B 55 (5)
2016–2021 Athletic Club 57 (1)
2021–2022 Deportivo 16 (0)
2022– Eibar 53 (2)
International career‡
2015 Spain U17 2 (1)
2016–2017 Spain U19 14 (3)
2016–2018 Spain U20 5 (0)
Medal record
Women's football
Representing  Spain
UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship
Winner 2015 Iceland
UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship
Winner 2017 Northern Ireland
Runner-up 2016 Slovakia
FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup
Runner-up 2018 France
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 27 October 2024
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 27 October 2024

Andrea Maddalen Sierra Larrauri (born 15 May 1998) is a Spanish footballer who plays as a defender for Eibar. She began her career at Athletic Club and also played for Deportivo, joining Eibar in 2022.

Club career

Sierra started her career in the youth teams of Loiola and Bizkerre in her hometown of Bilbao.[4] She joined Athletic Club in 2014, initially playing for their B-team; aged 18, her Primera División (later Liga F) debut came on 30 October 2016 against Atlético Madrid, followed by promotion to the senior squad from then on. She scored her first goal for the team against Levante on 12 January 2020, rescuing a draw for her side in stoppage time[5] and coincidentally on a day when she had been selected as the 'cover star' on the club's matchday programme for the fixture.[6] Partly due to injuries,[7] she was never a regular starter for Athletic across a full season, her best return being 21 appearances (two in the Copa de la Reina) in 2018–19 as the team finished 5th.

In 2021, her Athletic contract expired[8] and she joined second-tier Deportivo Abanca together with her friend and teammate at Athletic, Jone Ibáñez,[3] and helped the Galician team keep their place as restructuring reduced the division from two groups to one.[9]

In 2022, both Sierra and Ibáñez signed for Eibar, competing at the same level after being relegated, and the team achieved promotion back to the top tier with a 2nd-place finish in the 2022–23 Primera Federación.[10] Sierra made 26 appearances in the 2023–24 Liga F campaign as Eibar comfortably maintained their divisional status but, having renewed her contract for a further year,[11] was absent at the start of the following season due to injury.

International career

Sierra represented Spain at various youth levels, being a member of squads which won the 2015 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship in Iceland and the 2017 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship in Northern Ireland, and were beaten finalists in the 2016 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship in Slovakia and the 2018 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup in France.[1][12]

References

  1. ^ a b Andrea Sierra at Soccerway. Retrieved 27 October 2024.
  2. ^ a b "Sierra". BDFutbol. Retrieved 27 October 2024.
  3. ^ a b "Andrea Sierra, nueva jugadora del Dépor ABANCA 2021-2022" [Andrea Sierra, new player for Dépor ABANCA 2021-2022]. RC Deportivo de La Coruña (in Spanish). 15 July 2021. Retrieved 27 October 2024.
  4. ^ Sierra: Andrea Sierra Larrauri, Txapeldunak (in Spanish)
  5. ^ "Un gol sobre la bocina de Andrea Sierra priva de la victoria al Levante en Lezama (1-1)" [Andrea Sierra's late goal deprives Levante of victory in Lezama (1-1)]. Esport Base (in Spanish). 12 January 2020. Retrieved 27 October 2024.
  6. ^ "The day of Andrea Sierra". Athletic Bilbao. 14 January 2020. Retrieved 27 October 2024.
  7. ^ "Andrea Sierra: "Tenemos muchas ganas de volver a competir de una vez por todas"" [Andrea Sierra: "We are looking forward to competing again once and for all"]. Deia (in Spanish). 20 September 2020. Retrieved 27 October 2024.
  8. ^ "Jone Ibáñez y Andrea Sierra no siguen en el Athletic" [Jone Ibáñez and Andrea Sierra are no longer with Athletic]. Mundo Deportivo (in Spanish). 29 June 2021. Retrieved 27 October 2024.
  9. ^ "Andrea Sierra: "¿Si estaría dispuesta a seguir? Estoy muy contenta aquí, así que sí"" [Andrea Sierra: “Would you be willing to continue? I am very happy here, so yes”] (in Spanish). dxtcampeon.com. 20 May 2022.
  10. ^ ""Baloiarekin bizkorrago eta zehatzago aritu behar dugu"" ["We have to work faster and more precisely with the ball"]. Berria (in Basque). 13 October 2023. Retrieved 27 October 2024.
  11. ^ "Andrea Sierra renews contract with SD Eibar until June 2025". SD Eibar. 25 June 2024. Retrieved 27 October 2024.
  12. ^ "Holders France and Spanish set to lock horns again". Irish Football Association. 19 August 2017. Retrieved 27 October 2024.