Damaris Egurrola

About

Damaris Berta Egurrola Wienke (born 26 August 1999) is a professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Première Ligue club Lyon and the Netherlands national team. At club level, she made her debut with Athletic Club in 2015, moved to Everton in 2020, then signed for Lyon in January 2021.
Born in the United States, she made her senior debut for Spain in 2019; in 2022, she filed a one-time switch to represent the Netherlands instead.

Egurrola spent her early childhood in Orlando, Florida, the second of three children born to a Dutch mother and a Spanish-Basque father (Pablo Egurrola Osa, a professional pelotari competing in American Jai Alai leagues); when he retired in 2006, the family relocated to his homeland in eastern Biscay in Spain’s Basque Country.

After playing youth football at clubs in the Gernika area, Egurrola – who also showed a talent for tennis – signed for Athletic Club in 2014, aged 14, meeting the club’s selective signing criteria due to her local upbringing. Following one season with their B-team, she made her senior team debut in December 2015, making six appearances in the 2015–16 Primera División as…