Personal information | |||
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Full name | Ainhoa Tirapu de Goñi | ||
Date of birth | 4 September 1984 | ||
Place of birth | Pamplona, Spain | ||
Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) | ||
Playing position | Goalkeeper | ||
Club information | |||
Current team
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Athletic Bilbao | ||
Number | 1 | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
Lagunak | |||
2005 | Puebla | ||
2005– | Athletic Bilbao | 237 | (0) |
National team‡ | |||
2007–2015 | Spain | 46 | (0) |
2006– | Basque Country | 5 | (0) |
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 12:00, 4 September 2016 (UTC). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 21:46, 18 June 2015 (UTC) |
Ainhoa Tirapu de Goñi (born 4 September 1984) is a Spanish football goalkeeper who plays for Primera División club Athletic Bilbao and the Spain women's national football team.
Tirapu began her career in SD Lagunak and played in the 2005 Copa de la Reina for CF Puebla. She then signed for Athletic Bilbao, who had just won their third Superliga Femenina in a row, as a replacement for the retiring Eli Capa. In August 2005 she played her first match for Athletic in the 2005–06 UEFA Women's Cup's qualifying stage; a 6–2 victory over Scottish champions Glasgow City.
From 2006 she was Athletic's first choice goalkeeper. Tirapu has won two Primera División titles with Athletic; in 2006–07 and 2015–16.
In 2002 Tirapu was part of the Spanish national under-19 squad which competed in the UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship finals in Sweden.
Tirapu made her senior Spain women's national football team debut in the second game of the UEFA Women's Euro 2009 qualifying series; a 2–2 draw against the Czech Republic in Plzeň on 27 October 2007. She remained as Spain's first choice goalkeeper for the rest of the stage, which ended in a 4–0 play-off defeat to the Netherlands. She also retained the position during the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification campaign.