Olga Carmona

Olga Carmona
	Carmona in 2020
Personal information
Full name	Olga Carmona García
Date of birth	12 June 2000 (age 24)
Place of birth	Seville, Spain
Height	1.59 m (5 ft 3 in)
Position(s)	Left back, winger, wing-back
Club information
Current team	Real Madrid
Number	7
Youth career
2006–2007	Sevilla Este
2007–2017	Sevilla
Senior career*
Years	Team
2017–2020	Sevilla
2020–	Real Madrid
National team‡
2018	Spain U19
2021–	Spain U23
2021–	Spain
Honours
Women's football
Representing Spain
FIFA Women's World Cup
UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship
	* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 19 May 2023; ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 20 August 2023

Olga Carmona García (born June 12, 2000) is a professional football player from Spain. She plays as a left back for a team named Real Madrid in Liga F, and she also represents the Spain national team. She was born in Seville, a city in Andalusia. Carmona started playing football when she was six years old with Sevilla Este.^[1]

Career

In her first season as a professional player, Carmona played 25 matches and scored five goals for the team Sevilla. They finished in the 12th position.^[2] In 2007, she joined the youth team of Sevilla FC and stayed there for nine years. During the 2016–17 season, Carmona moved up to the first team, which played in the second division of Spanish soccer, known as Segunda División. In her first year with the team, they got promoted to the top division, called Primera División. For the next three years, her team ranked in the middle of the league. Carmona also got to the semi-finals of two domestic cup tournaments, the 2018–19 and 2019–20, but her team Sevilla lost to Real Sociedad and FC Barcelona, respectively.

In the summer of 2020, Carmona joined Real Madrid's newly created women's soccer team.^[3] She was part of the U-19 Spanish national team that won the 2018 European Championship. They beat Germany 1–0 in the final, and Carmona scored four goals in the qualifying matches and the finals. She also played in the U-19 European Championship finals again the next year, but her team lost in the semi-finals against France.

On April 13, 2021, Carmona played her first match for the senior national team of Spain in a friendly game against Mexico. In the year 2023, Carmona played an important role in Spain's victory in the FIFA World Cup. She became the captain of the Spain squad in both the semi-final and final matches, and she scored important goals in both of these matches. During the semi-final match against Sweden on August 15, Carmona scored a goal from far away, helping her team win 2–1. In the championship match against England, she scored the only goal of the game, which led Spain to a 1–0 victory, and they became the champions.^[4] Carmona was also chosen as the best player in the final match.^[5]

Career statistics

No.	Date	venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1.	19 February 2023	CommBank Stadium, Sydney, Australia	Australia	1–3	2–3	2023 Cup of Nations
2.	15 August 2023	Eden Park, Auckland, New Zealand	Sweden	2–1	2–1	2023 FIFA Women's World Cup
3.	20 August 2023	Stadium Australia, Sydney, Australia	England	1–0	1–0	2023 FIFA Women's World Cup