Nahikari García

Nahikari García
Personnel
Surname	Nahikari García Pérez
birthday	March 10, 1997
place of birth	Urnieta , Gipuzkoa ,  Spain
size	159 cm
position	striker
Juniors
Years	station
2007–2012	Añorga KKE
Women
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2012-2014	Añorga KKE
2014–	Real Sociedad	34 (14)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals) 2
2012-2014	Spain U17	at least 21 (16)
2014–	Spain U19	at least 26 (19)
1 Only league games are given. As of January 8, 2016 2 As of January 8, 2016

Nahikari García Pérez (born March 10, 1997 in Urnieta , Gipuzkoa , Autonomous Community of the Basque Country ) is a Spanish football player in the position of a striker who has appeared in the Primera División for the women's team of Real Sociedad San Sebastián since 2014 .

Career

Nahikari García was born on 10 March 1997 in the province of Gipuzkoa, one of three provinces of the Basque Autonomous Community, belonging town Urnieta born. After starting out as a street soccer player with male playmates, her parents signed her up with the local Basque club Añorga KKE . Subsequently, she appeared in the club's own offspring from the age of nine, but made the leap into the women's team at the age of 14 or 15. In this she appeared from then on and from that time on she was also regularly called up to the Spanish U-17 national team . With this she took part in the U-17 European Championship 2013 in Nyon , where she took third place with the Spaniards. With her two goals she was also the top scorer of this tournament. In the same year, the U-17 European Championship 2014 , which means there are two European championship holders in 2013, was held in England , with the Spanish women making it to the final. This was won on December 8, 2013 only on penalties by the seniors from Germany . Nahikari García was used in all five of their team's games, but remained goalless. All the more dangerous she acted in two of the three qualifying games for this European Championship finals, in which she scored five goals.

In the winter transfer period 2013/14 García moved to the women's team of Real Sociedad San Sebastián with play in the Primera División , the highest Spanish women's football league. There the 16-year-old made her first division debut on January 5, 2014, when she was used for the full game against the women's team of UD Levante . By placing in the 2014 European Championships, which took place at the end of 2013, the Spaniards around Nahikari García managed to take part in the 2014 U-17 World Cup in Costa Rica . Here, under coach Jorge Vilda , she was used in all six games of her team and with five goals was the most dangerous Spanish woman. With the team she only made it into the quarter-finals as second in the group behind Japan , but made it to the final game from there, which in turn was lost 2-0 to the Japanese women mentioned above. In the tournament's top scorers list, she and Japanese Hina Sugita ranked second behind Venezuelans Deyna Castellanos and Gabriela García . In the final ranking of the Primera División , which ended about a month later, she finished seventh with Real Sociedad and qualified for the subsequent Copa de la Reina . In this, the Basque striker and her team were eliminated from the current tournament in the quarter-finals against eventual winners FC Barcelona .

The following July 2014 she took part in the U-19 European Championship in Norway as part of the Spanish U-19 squad . There the Spaniards made it to the finals against the Netherlands as second in group B and winners of the semi-final against the hosts . The final was then lost 0: 1, which García lost the third major tournament in 2014 in the final. With her two goals, which she scored in her five appearances, she was the most dangerous Spaniard and was second in the tournament's top scorer list, along with four other players, behind Vivianne Miedema , who scored six goals. With her club team Real Sociedad, she only reached eleventh place in the table in the course of the 2014/15 season, but was the most scoring player in the Basque team with ten goals. About two months after the end of the season, she took part in the U-19 European Championship 2015 in Israel with the Spanish U-19 team, having previously qualified for the finals with the Spanish after playing in September 2014 and April 2015. The team captain has already scored seven goals in the six qualifying games . In the course of the tournament, Spain made it to the final again, but lost again, this time to their colleagues from Sweden with 1: 3. In the tournament, García was used in all five international matches of her team and at the end of the tournament was one of 14 players who managed a single goal.

After a fifth place with Real Sociedad in the 2015/16 season, when the team lost again in the quarter-finals of the Copa de la Reina to the women of FC Barcelona, her further career brought her to the 2016 U-19 European Championship in Slovakia . Already in the qualification for this Nahikari García completed three international matches, in which she was just as often successful as a goalscorer. In the final round in July 2016, the captain and her team managed to win the group and the associated entry into the semi-finals, which were won 4: 3 over the Dutch women. In the subsequent final against France on July 31, 2016, which was interrupted for over two hours at half-time due to heavy rain showers and made playing almost impossible, García again left the field as a big loser. After she had already awarded a penalty in the 53rd minute of the game and the associated 1: 1 equalization, she failed in stoppage time with a score of 2: 1 for France from three meters in front of the empty goal and was eliminated with the Spaniards again in a final game. During the tournament in Slovakia, she played in all five games of her team and scored three goals, as in qualifying. But that made her only the third best Spanish goalscorer behind Sandra Hernández and Lucía García .

Furthermore, she has already been elected to the provisional U-20 national team of Spain , which will take part in the U-20 World Cup in Papua New Guinea in November 2016 .

On May 11, 2019, García scored the 2-1 winning goal for Real Sociedad against Atlético Madrid in the final of the Spanish Cup .

successes

National team:

• 1 × U-17 European Championship top scorer : 2013 (2 goals)
• 1 × U-17 European Championship finalist: 2014
• 1 × U-17 World Cup finalist: 2014
• 3 × U-19 World Cup finalist: 2014 , 2015 and 2016

Society:

• 1 × Spanish Cup : 2019

Web links

• Nahikari García in the soccerway.com database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ La Real Sociedad ficha a Nahikari García (Spanish), accessed on August 1, 2016
2. ↑ Nahikari Garcia, participante en la Donosti Cup, debuta con 16 años en 1ª División (Spanish), accessed on August 1, 2016
3. ↑ Nahikari García: "We are looking forward to the final call up" (English), accessed on August 1, 2016
4. ↑ Nahikari Garcia double-miss hands France Women's Euro U19 trophy in water-logged final (English), accessed on August 1, 2016
5. ↑ U19 European Championship for women ends curiously - A puddle ends Spain's dream of the title , accessed on August 1, 2016
6. ↑ La Real Sociedad hace historia con la conquista la Copa de la Reina. In: marca.com. Marca, May 11, 2019, accessed May 11, 2019 .