{{Short description|Costa Rican footballer (born 1998)}} {{EngvarB|date=September 2023}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2023}} {{Family name hatnote|Estrada|Carvajal|lang=Spanish}} {{Infobox football biography | name = Catalina Estrada | image = Catalina Estrada salta tras perder el balón (cropped).jpg | alt = Estrada makes an acrobatic jump over a player slide tackling | caption = Estrada in 2020 | full_name = Catalina Estrada Carvajal | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1998|10|11|df=y}} | birth_place = San Carlos, Costa Rica | height = 1.63m | position = Forward | currentclub = | clubnumber = | youthyears1 = | youthclubs1 = | collegeyears1 = | college1 = | collegecaps1 = | collegegoals1 = | years1 = {{0|0000}}–2023 | clubs1 = Saprissa | caps1 = | goals1 = | years2 = 2023 | clubs2 = Cruz Azul | caps2 = 8 | goals2 = 3 | nationalyears1 = 2023– | nationalteam1 = Costa Rica | nationalcaps1 = 2 | nationalgoals1 = 0 | medaltemplates = | club-update = | nationalteam-update = 20 July 2023 (prior the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup) }} '''Catalina Estrada Carvajal''' (born 11 October 1998) is a Costa Rican professional footballer who plays as a forward for the Costa Rica women's national team.
== Early life == Catalina Estrada Carvajal was born on 11 October 1998<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Costa Rica - C. Estrada - Profile with news, career statistics and history - Soccerway |url=https://int.soccerway.com/players/catalina-estrada/533054/ |access-date=21 July 2023 |website=Soccerway}}</ref> in San Carlos, and is the sixth of fourteen siblings.<ref name=":1"/> Growing up they all played football; Estrada played with two of them on a men's team, all as forwards.<ref name=":1"/> She went to live with one of her sisters, who supported her in her early career,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Christenson |first=Marcus |last2=Bloor |first2=Steven |last3=Blight |first3=Garry |date=17 July 2023 |title=Women's World Cup 2023: your guide to all 736 players |url=https://www.theguardian.com/football/ng-interactive/2023/jul/17/womens-world-cup-2023-your-guide-to-all-736-players |access-date=22 July 2023 |website=the Guardian |language=en}}</ref> when she was a teenager.<ref name=":1">{{cite news |last=Valverde |first=Esteban |date=10 July 2021 |title=#LoQueNoSeSabe sobre Catalina Estrada: la jugadora del Saprissa que encontró en sus 13 hermanos el impulso para jugar al fútbol |language=es |trans-title=#WhatYouDontKnow about Catalina Estrada: the Saprissa player who found the drive to play soccer with her 13 siblings |newspaper=La Nación |type=video |url=https://www.nacion.com/puro-deporte/futbol-nacional/loquenosesabe-sobre-catalina-estrada-la-jugadora/IA4FLK7335CPBNDDDEAUGSKAAQ/story/ |access-date=19 July 2023}}</ref>
== Club career == After playing for a local men's team in Aguas Zarcas, San Carlos, for eight years, Estrada moved to San José to join Women's Premier Division club Saprissa.<ref name=":2">{{cite news |last=Hernandez |first=Joselyn |date=21 January 2021 |title=Catalina Estrada: 'Quiero ser de las que se quede en la Selección' |language=es |trans-title=Catalina Estrada: 'I want to be one of those who stays on the national team' |publisher=Costa Rican Football Federation |url=https://www.fcrf.cr/2021/01/21/catalina-estrada-quiero-ser-de-las-que-se-quede-en-la-seleccion/ |access-date=19 July 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.lateja.cr/deportes/conozca-lo-que-paso-la-goleadora-del-saprissa/XOG5XPPLPJFWXNSF4ILHNFYJCM/story/|title=Conozca lo que pasó la goleadora del Saprissa antes de llegar a primera|last=Aguilar Arroyo|first=Yenci|date=28 April 2023|website=lateja.cr|language=es|trans-title=Find out what the Saprissa goalscorer went through before reaching the premier division|access-date=19 July 2023}}</ref> She is known for her calmness on the pitch, being neither a vocal nor expressive player.<ref name=":1" />
As of 2021, she also works as a trainer at a strength training gym and studies nutrition.<ref name=":1" />
== International career == In 2018, Estrada played for the Costa Rica under-20 team, scoring the team's only goal in a 1–3 loss on her youth debut.<ref name=":0" /> In early 2021, she was one of 28 young players called into development training with the senior squad. She was pleased at the inclusion of so many players, while expressing that she wanted to be one of those to stay on and break into the national team for the World Cup qualifiers at the end of the year.<ref name=":2" /> Despite having to work other jobs, and saying the team was not wholly professional, Estrada said that it had improved a lot between 2019 and 2021,<ref name=":1" /> when she made her senior debut.<ref name=":0" /> She was included in Costa Rica's squad for the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Catalina Estrada: Ficha, estadísticas en Mundial femenino - Sport |url=https://www.sport.es/deportes/futbol/mundial-femenino/costa-rica/catalina-estrada.html |access-date=21 July 2023 |website=www.sport.es}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *{{Liga MX Femenil player|169751}} * {{Soccerbase|176425}} * {{IMDb name|nm15093540}}
{{Costa Rica squad 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Estrada, Catalina}} Category:1998 births Category:Living people Category:People from San Carlos (canton) Category:Footballers from Alajuela Province Category:Costa Rican women's footballers Category:21st-century Costa Rican sportswomen Category:Women's association football forwards Category:Deportivo Saprissa players Category:Cruz Azul (women) footballers Category:Liga MX Femenil players Category:Costa Rica women's international footballers Category:Expatriate women's footballers in Mexico Category:2023 FIFA Women's World Cup players