Marta Torrejón

Marta Torrejón Moya (born 27 February 1990) is a Spanish football player who plays as a defender for FC Barcelona. She formerly captained the Spain women's national football team, making 90 appearances and scoring 9 goals.[2]

Marta Torrejón
Marta Torrejón with Barcelona in 2019
Personal information
Full name Marta Torrejón Moya[1]
Date of birth (1990-02-27) 27 February 1990[1]
Place of birth Mataró, Catalonia, Spain
Height 1.71 m (5 ft 7 1⁄2 in)[1]
Position(s) Defender
Club information
Current team
 FC Barcelona
Number 8
Youth career
1998–2001 Salesians
2001–2004 Espanyol
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2004–2013 Espanyol
2013– Barcelona 171 (21)
National team
2006–2009 Spain U-19 23 (6)
2007–2019 Spain 90 (9)
2007–2019 Catalonia 3 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 6 May 2019
In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Torrejón and the second or maternal family name is Moya.

Club career

Torrejón debuted in the Superliga Femenina for Espanyol at just 14 years old. In 2011, she started in the final of the Copa de la Reina de Fútbol, where they lost in extra time versus her future club, Barcelona.[3]

Two years later, at age 23, she signed for FC Barcelona [4] and is currently the club's third captain.[5]

Torrejón has won three league titles and three Copas de la Reina with Barcelona.

In the 2016–2017 season, Barcelona reached the semi-finals of the UEFA Women's Champions League for the first time in the club's history. They were knocked out 5–1 on aggregate by Paris Saint Germain, where Torrejón started both matches.[6][7]

Torrejón on the ball during the 2019 UEFA Women's Champions League Final

In the 2018–2019 season, she played an integral role in Barcelona's defense as they made it to the final of the UEFA Women's Champions League for the first time in the club's history. Torrejón started both games versus Bayern, where Barcelona won 2–0 on aggregate.[8][9] On May 18, 2019, Torrejón started in FCB Femení's first ever UWCL final versus Lyon, who went on to win the match 4–1.[10]

In 2020, Torrejón featured for both matches in the first edition of the Supercopa Femenina. In the final against Real Sociedad, she scored 4 of Barcelona's 10 goals and was named MVP of the tournament.[11]

International career

Torrejón made her senior Spain women's national football team debut in November 2007, a 1–0 defeat to England in Shrewsbury.[12]

In June 2013 national team coach Ignacio Quereda selected Torrejón in the squad for UEFA Women's Euro 2013 in Sweden.[13] She played every minute of Spain's campaign, which ended with a 3–1 defeat to Norway in the quarter-finals.

She was part of Spain's squad for the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup in Canada, playing every minute of the team's campaign.[1] After Spain's poor performance of two losses and a draw in the group stages, she and her 22 teammates from the tournament called for coach Ignacio Quereda's resignation from the national team.[14]

She played two games at the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup in France.[15] The match against Germany would end up being her final appearance for Spain.

After the 2019 Women's World Cup, she announced her retirement from the national team on Twitter.[16] She retired with the most ever caps for a Spanish women's national team player with 90.[17]

Goals for the Spanish WNT in official competitions
CompetitionStageDateLocationOpponentGoalsResultOverall
2009 UEFA EuroQualifiers8 May 2008Las Rozas Czech Republic14–11
2011 FIFA World CupQualifiers7 April 2010Guadalajara Turkey15–11
2013 UEFA EuroQualifiers5 April 2012Las Rozas Kazakhstan113–01
2015 FIFA World CupQualifiers27 October 2013Collado Estonia16–02
2014–04–10Skopje North Macedonia110–0
2017 UEFA EuroQualifiers26 September 2016Leganés Finland15–01

Personal life

Her brother is Marc Torrejón, a footballer who plays in Germany for 1. FC Union Berlin.[18][19][20]

Honours
Torrejón captaining Espanyol in 2012

Club
RCD Espanyol
FC Barcelona
Spain

References
  1. "List of Players – 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup" (PDF). Fédération Internationale de Football Association. Retrieved 18 June 2015.
  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 31 March 2013. Retrieved 31 March 2013.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) RFEF
  3. "FC Barcelona, campeón de la Copa de SM La Reina tras vencer al RCD Espanyol (1–0)" (in Spanish). rfef.es. 19 June 2011. Archived from the original on 27 December 2011. Retrieved 30 November 2019.
  4. "Marta". Retrieved 29 November 2019.
  5. "FC Barcelona Femení on Twitter: THE CAPTAINS / LES CAPITANES / LAS CAPITANAS". Retrieved 29 November 2019.
  6. "Barcelona-Paris- Line-ups - UEFA Women's Champions League UEFA.com". 22 April 2017. Retrieved 30 November 2019.
  7. "Paris-Barcelona - UEFA Women's Champions League - UEFA.com". 29 April 2017. Retrieved 30 November 2019.
  8. "Bayern 0–1 Barça Women: First blood to the blaugrana". 21 April 2019. Retrieved 20 November 2019.
  9. "Barça Women 1–0 Bayern Munich: A historic win!". 28 April 2019. Retrieved 30 November 2019.
  10. "Olympique Lyonnais 4 – 1 FC Barcelona: Runners up in Europe". 18 May 2019. Retrieved 30 November 2019.
  11. "Real Sociedad 1–10 Barça Women: Super Cup Champions!". fcbarcelona.com. FC Barcelona. 9 February 2020. Retrieved 9 February 2020.
  12. Roldán, Isabel (20 November 2007). "Vilas y Torrejón, nuevas caras para la Absoluta" [Vilas and Torrejón, new faces for the Absolute] (in Spanish). Diario AS. Retrieved 3 August 2013.
  13. "Spain stick with tried and trusted". Uefa.com. UEFA. 29 June 2013. Retrieved 3 August 2013.
  14. "Spain's Women's team feel Quereda's time is up -AS.com". Retrieved 30 November 2019.
  15. "FIFA Women's World Cup France 2019™ - Players - Marta TORREJON - Marta Torrejón - FIFA.com". Retrieved 29 November 2019.
  16. "Marta Torrejon on Twitter: "Comunicado oficial. / Twitter". 19 August 2019. Retrieved 29 November 2019.
  17. "El fútbol español rinde homenaje a Silvia Meseguer y Marta Torrejón". 4 October 2019. Retrieved 29 November 2019.
  18. Roldán, Isabel (22 October 2011). "No acostumbran a compararme con mi hermano Marc" [I'm not compared to my brother Marc very often] (in Spanish). Diario AS. Retrieved 13 May 2013.
  19. "Europe's footballing brothers and sisters". UEFA. 9 February 2017.
  20. "TORREJÓN". Soccerway. 4 October 2018.
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