Ivana Andrés Sanz (born 13 July 1994) is a Spanish professional

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby ...

who plays as a

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for

Liga F The Primera División de la Liga de Fútbol Femenino, currently known as Liga F (finetwork Liga F for sponsorship reasons), is the highest level of league competition for women's football in Spain. It is the women's equivalent of the men's La L ...

club Real Madrid, which she

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, and the Spain women's national team.

Career

Club

After starting at her local team, Aielo CF, she joined the DSV Colegio Alemán school in the 2007–08 campaign and reached the

Valencia CF Valencia Club de Fútbol (, ca-valencia, València Club de Futbol ), commonly referred to as Valencia CF (or simply Valencia) is a professional football club based in Valencia, Spain, that currently plays in La Liga, the top flight of the Spa ...

first team in the 2009–10 season. After several years in the team, being the club captain for the last seasons, she made a surprise transfer to city rivals Levante UD.

International

She is a Spanish international since 2015. As an under-17 international she won the 2010 and 2011 U-17 European Championships and a bronze in the 2010 U-17 World Cup. She was part of Spain's squad at the

2015 Women's World Cup The 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup was the seventh FIFA Women's World Cup, the quadrennial international soccer championship contested by the women's national teams of the member associations of FIFA. The tournament was hosted by Canada for th ...

in Canada.

Honours

International

; Spain *

UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship The UEFA European Women's Under-17 Championship or simply UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship, is a European championship football tournament, organized by UEFA, for national teams of women under age seventeen. The tournament was first played out ...

(2): 2010, 2011 *

Algarve Cup The Algarve Cup is an invitational tournament for national teams in women's association football hosted by the Portuguese Football Federation (FPF). Held annually in the Algarve region of Portugal since 1994, it is one of the most prestigious an ...

: Winner

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Private life

Andrés is since June 2022 married with her girlfriend Anabel.L-Mag.de: Das sind die 59 lesbischen, bisexuellen und queeren Spielerinnen
July 2022

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