Damaris Egurrola


Damaris Berta Egurrola Wienke is a professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder. At club level, she made her debut with Athletic Bilbao in 2015 and departed in 2020.
Born in the United States, she made her senior debut for the Spain national team in 2019.

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 ; when he retired in 2006, the family emigrated to his homeland in eastern Biscay in Spain's Basque Country. Damaris became a polyglot, speaking Spanish, English, Basque and Dutch to a high standard.

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 summer 2020.

International career

Egurrola 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, – 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.
She 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, along with two clubmates.
She has also played for the unofficial Basque Country team.