Raquel Pinel Sáez (born 30 August 1994) is a Spanish

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forward currently playing for

Alhama CF Alhama Club de Fútbol, known as Alhama CF ElPozo or Alhama ElPozo for sponsorship reasons and Alhama Females, is a women's association football club base in Alhama de Murcia. Founded in 2004, it currently competes in the Liga F, the Spanish ...

in the Primera División. She previously played for Sporting Huelva,

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and

Valencia Valencia ( , ), formally València (), is the capital of the Province of Valencia, province and Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Valencian Community, the same name in Spain. It is located on the banks of the Turia (r ...

Club career

Pinel made her debut at 15 years of age for

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. She later joined Sporting Huelva from which she transferred to

in 2011. For Valencia, she won an individual award in the 2012 COTIF Women's Football Tournament, being awarded top scorer for scoring four goals during the tournament. For the 2013–14 Primera División season, she moved to Sant Gabriel, where she would stay for one season. After that, she joined Aldaia, where she would be a regular for the first team. Aldaia never achieved promotion to the Primera División during her time there and, in 2018, she transferred to top tier club

. At the end of the 2019–20 Primera División season, in which Pinel played in 19 out of 21 matches for Sevilla, scoring three goals, she renewed her contract with Sevilla for one further year. Since 2019, Pinel has played as

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for Sevilla on occasion, sharing the responsibility with Maite Albarrán and Aldana Cometti. In July 2021, after three and a half seasons at Sevilla, Pinel transferred to newly promoted

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International career

She has won the

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U-17 European Championships with Spain; in the tournament she scored against

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and the

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. She also represented Spain in the 2010 U-17 World Cup where she scored three goals, one against

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, another against

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and the last of them was the only goal in the bronze medal match against

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. In 2011, she participated in that year's U-17 European Championships, scoring a goal against

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in the group stages. Pinel then progressed to representing the under-19 team and represented Spain in the

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U-19 European Championships. In the semi-final against

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, she scored the game's only goal three minutes before the end of the match, which secured them a place in the final. In the final against

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, she played 89 minutes before being substituted in a game in which Spain lost.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Pinel, Raquel 1994 births Living people Spanish women's footballers Liga F players Sporting de Huelva players Valencia CF Femenino players Women's association football forwards Sevilla FC (women) players Villarreal CF (women) players Footballers from Jaén, Spain CE Sant Gabriel players Spain women's youth international footballers 21st-century Spanish sportswomen