Leila Ouahabi

About

Leila Ouahabi El Ouahabi (born 22 March 1993) is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a left-back for National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) team Chicago Stars FC and the Spain national team. She has also played for the Catalonia national team. A full international since 2016, Ouahabi has represented the Spain national team in the 2019 FIFA World Cup and the UEFA Euro 2022.
Born in Catalonia, Ouahabi played youth football with Barcelona before being elevated to become a first team player for the 2011–12 season. She left Barcelona to join Valencia in 2013, before returning to the club in 2016. She had won numerous accolades with Barcelona, which includes the UEFA Champions League, Primera División, and Copa de la Reina. She left Barcelona to join Manchester City in the summer of 2022.

Ouahabi was born in Mataró, Catalonia, to a family of Moroccan origin. Growing up, she would play futsal with her brother and at one point joined a futsal team of eleven other boys. The first club she joined was a girl’s youth team of the club UE Vilassar de Mar.
Ouahabi was thirteen when she joined Barcelona’s youth teams in 2007. After five years of elevating through the ranks…