Francisca Alejandra Lara Lara (born 29 July 1990), informally known as Pancha Lara, is a Chilean professional

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who plays as a

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for Spanish

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club Dépor ABANCA and the Chile women's national team.

Club career

In July 2020, Lara moved to France and joined

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. In the second half of 2024, she signed with Dépor ABANCA from

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International career

Twenty-year-old Lara was named in

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's 20-player squad for the

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in Ecuador. She scored two goals at the

2018 Copa América Femenina The 2018 Copa América Femenina was the eighth edition of the CONMEBOL Copa América Femenina (also referred to as the ''Copa América Femenina''), the quadrennial international football competition for women's national teams in South America af ...

, where Chile qualified to a FIFA Women's World Cup for the first time in its history. She also was a member of the Chile squad that won the silver medal at the

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International goals

''Scores and results list Chile's goal tally first''

Honours

Chile *

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Silver medal:

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Pancha Lara
at BDFutbol.com 1990 births Living people People from San Fernando, Chile Footballers from O'Higgins Region Chilean women's footballers 21st-century Chilean sportswomen Women's association football midfielders Club Deportivo Ferroviarios footballers Coquimbo Unido footballers C.D. Cobreloa footballers Colo-Colo (women) footballers Liga F players Sporting de Huelva players Sevilla FC (women) players Villarreal CF (women) players Deportivo de La Coruña (women) players Première Ligue players Le Havre AC (women) players Chile women's youth international footballers Chile women's international footballers 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup players Footballers at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic footballers for Chile Footballers at the 2011 Pan American Games Pan American Games footballers for Chile Competitors at the 2014 South American Games South American Games silver medalists for Chile South American Games medalists in football South American Games competitors for Chile Chilean expatriate women's footballers Chilean expatriate sportspeople in Spain Expatriate women's footballers in Spain Chilean expatriate sportspeople in France Expatriate women's footballers in France {{chile-women-footy-bio-stub