Ilana Izquierdo

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Ilana Izquierdo
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Izquierdo with Colombia at the 2024 Olympics
Personal information
Date of birth (2002-06-14) 14 June 2002 (age 23)
Place of birth Cali, Colombia
Height 1.60 m (5 ft 3 in)
Position Midfielder
Team information
Current team
 Tigres UANL
Number 21
College career
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2021–2022 Southern Miss Golden Eagles 30 (8)
2023–2025 Mississippi State Bulldogs 38 (6)
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2023–2024 Asheville City 21 (5)
2025 Atlético San Luis 12 (2)
2026– Tigres UANL 0 (0)
International career
2018 Colombia U17
2022 Colombia U20
2024– Colombia
Medal record
Women's football
Representing Flag of Colombia.svg  Colombia
Copa América Femenina
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2025 Ecuador
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Ilana Izquierdo (born 14 June 2002) is a Colombian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Liga MX Femenil club Tigres UANL and the Colombia national team. She played college soccer for the Southern Miss Golden Eagles and the Mississippi State Bulldogs. She represented Colombia at the 2024 Paris Olympics.

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College career

Born in Cali, Izquierdo moved to the United States to attend the University of Southern Mississippi, where she played for the Southern Miss Golden Eagles. [1] In her freshman season, she started all 17 games and led the team in scoring with 7 goals and 7 assists, earning Conference USA Freshman of the Year and first-team All-C-USA honors. [1] She was named in the all-tournament team after helping the Golden Eagles to the C-USA tournament final. [1] She had 2 goals and 1 assist in 15 games as a sophomore, earning second-team All-Sun Belt honors. [2]

Izquierdo transferred to Mississippi State University in the spring of 2023. [3] In her junior season, she started all 23 games for the Mississippi State Bulldogs, led the team in minutes played, and scored 4 goals with 2 assists. [2] She helped the team to the NCAA tournament round of 16, marking the first time the program reached the third round, before losing to eventual finalists Stanford. [4] [5] In her senior season in 2024, Izquierdo's midfield partnership with Macey Hodge helped the Bulldogs go undefeated in the Southeastern Conference regular season, winning the conference title for the first time, and earn a one seed in the NCAA tournament. Izquierdo suffered a season-ending injury toward the end of the regular season. She had 2 goals in 15 games and was named second-team All-SEC. [2] [6]

During college, Izquierdo also played for Asheville City in the USL W League, helping the team to its first national playoff berth in 2024. [7] [8]

Club career

On June 13, 2025, Atlético San Luis announced that they had signed Izquierdo to her first professional contract. [9] She made her league debut on August 8, starting and playing the entire match in a 2–0 win over FC Juárez. [10] She scored her first league goal in a 1–1 draw against Toluca on October 13. [10]

On December 29, 2025, Tigres UANL announced that they had signed Izquierdo. [11]

International career

Izquierdo represented Colombia with the national under-17 team at the 2018 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup. [12] She played at the under-20 level at the 2022 South American Under-20 Women's Football Championship, the 2022 Bolivarian Games (where she won gold with the team), and the 2022 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup. [13]

Izquierdo was first called up to Colombia's senior national team at the 2024 CONCACAF W Gold Cup. [13] She started every match at the Gold Cup as Colombia made it to the quarterfinals. [14] She was selected to the 18-player roster for the 2024 Summer Olympics in France. [15] She started in all three Olympic group stage matches, including her country's first ever Olympic win in the game against New Zealand, and appeared as a substitute in their quarterfinal loss to Spain. [16]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Ilana Izquierda – Women's Soccer". Southern Miss Golden Eagles . Retrieved July 14, 2024.
  2. 1 2 3 "Ilana Izquierdo – Soccer". Mississippi State Bulldogs . Retrieved July 14, 2024.
  3. ↑ Murphy, Alex (September 6, 2023). "International transfer makes an immediate impact for Bulldogs". The Commercial Dispatch . Retrieved July 14, 2024.
  4. ↑ Pardue, Lance (November 17, 2023). "How Sweet It Is! State Soccer is Sweet 16 Bound for the First Time in Program History". Mississippi State Bulldogs . Retrieved July 14, 2024.
  5. ↑ Murphy, Alex (November 9, 2023). "Mississippi State's NCAA tournament run ends in Sweet 16 against Stanford". The Commercial Dispatch . Retrieved July 14, 2024.
  6. ↑ Damms, Colin (November 22, 2024). "Need to know: MSU Soccer's Round of 32 clash with Washington". The Commercial Dispatch . Retrieved August 4, 2025.
  7. ↑ "Seven new Players to Watch in the 2023 USL W League season". USL W League. May 8, 2023. Retrieved July 14, 2024– via SoccerWire.
  8. ↑ Womack, Chris (July 4, 2024). "Asheville City's Izquierdo heading to Olympics with Colombian National Team". WLOS . Retrieved July 14, 2024.
  9. ↑ "¡Bienvenida, Ilana Izquierdo!" (in Spanish). Atlético San Luis. June 13, 2025. Retrieved August 4, 2025.
  10. 1 2 Ilana Izquierdo at Flashscore OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
  11. ↑ "Tigres hace oficial la llegada de Ilana Izquierdo". elhorizonte.mx (in Spanish). December 30, 2025. Retrieved January 1, 2026.
  12. ↑ Rosenberg, Benjamin (July 9, 2024). "Mississippi State's Izquierdo, Perez to play soccer for Colombia at Paris Olympics". The Commercial Dispatch . Retrieved July 14, 2024.
  13. 1 2 Gilón, Luisa María (February 21, 2024). "Las nuevas caras de la Selección Colombia Femenina en Copa Oro W 2024". 90minutos.co. Retrieved July 14, 2024.
  14. ↑ Pardue, Lance (July 5, 2024). "Izquierdo, Perez Selected to Represent Colombia in 2024 Paris Games". Mississippi State Bulldogs . Retrieved July 14, 2024.
  15. ↑ Rosenberg, Benjamin (July 9, 2024). "MSU's Izquierdo, Perez to play for Colombia at Paris Olympics". Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal . Retrieved July 14, 2024.
  16. ↑ Damms, Colin (August 6, 2024). "MSU's Ilana Izquierdo heading home after Colombia's Olympic soccer exit". The Commercial Dispatch . Retrieved August 7, 2024.
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