Leyre Monente
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Leyre Monente Aicua | ||
| Date of birth | February 15, 2000 | ||
| Place of birth | Logroño, Spain | ||
| Height | 1.67 m (5 ft 6 in) | ||
| Positions | |||
| Youth career | |||
| Loyola[1] | |||
| Peña Balsamaiso | |||
| Comillas[2] | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2014–2015 | EdF Logroño | ||
| 2015–2021 | Athletic Club B | 62 | (30) |
| 2016–2023 | Athletic Club | 32 | (2) |
| 2023– | Alavés | 43 | (2) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2015–2016 | Spain U17 | 10 | (2) |
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* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 25 July 2025 ‡ National team caps and goals as of 23:04, 3 April 2022 (UTC) | |||
Leyre Monente Aicua (born 15 February 2000) is a Spanish footballer who plays for Alavés Gloriosas as a forward or attacking midfielder. She began her career with Athletic Club.
Having made her Primera División debut for Athletic aged 16 in 2016,[3] her early career was disrupted by serious injuries, including a torn anterior cruciate ligament plus other issues in 2017 which kept her out for more than a year,[4] and a shoulder problem which required surgery in late 2019[5] but then recurred in 2021,[6] just after she had re-established herself in the Athletic squad and been confirmed as having moved up from the B-team on a permanent basis.[4][7] She finally made a first appearance of the 2021–22 season as a substitute against Valencia on 2 April 2022.[8][9] She departed the club in May 2023[10] and signed for Alavés two months later.[11][12]
Monente was selected for the Spain age-group squads that won the UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship in 2015[2][1] and finished runners-up in 2016; she also claimed a bronze medal at the 2016 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup.[13]
Her experiences with injuries and the enforced breaks from playing led her to pursue a course in physiotherapy as a possible future career.[1]