Natalia Pablos

This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Pablos and the second or maternal family name is Sanchón.

Natalia Pablos

File:Natalia de Pablos.jpg Natalia with Bristol Academy in 2013
Personal information
Full name	Natalia Teresa Pablos Sanchón
Date of birth	(1985-10-15) 15 October 1985
Place of birth	Madrid, Spain
Height
Position(s)	Striker
Team information
Current team	Arsenal
Number	17
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2000–2013	Rayo Vallecano
2013–2014	Bristol Academy	27	(12)
2015–	Arsenal	13	(7)
International career
	Spain U-19	16	(6)
2005–	Spain	22	(13)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Natalia Teresa Pablos Sanchón (born 15 October 1985), known simply as Natalia, is a Spanish football forward who plays for English FA WSL club Arsenal and the Spain women's national football team.

Club career

Until 2013 she was the captain of Rayo Vallecano women's team, where she played since the club's foundation in 2000. At Rayo, Natalia won three Leagues and one Spanish Cup. She was the league's top scorer of the 2007-08 and 2008-09 seasons with 24 and 29 goals respectively. In November 2012, she scored her 300th goal for Rayo, including almost 200 league goals. A few months later (March 2013) she was leaving the club having scored 311 goals in 324 matches overall.

In 2013 she joined compatriot Laura del Río at Bristol Academy in the English FA WSL. Bristol manager Mark Sampson called Natalia a female version of Swansea City's Spanish striker Michu.

In October 2014 Birmingham City's Karen Carney was fined, banned for one match and sent on an education course for an incident in July with Pablos.

In December 2014 Natalia announced that she had left Bristol Academy to join Arsenal Ladies.

International career

After winning the 2004 Under–19 Euro, she was called into the senior national team where she had a brief spell including a 2007 World Cup qualifier match against Finland and the first two matches of 2009 Euro qualifying. She subsequently renounced for personal reasons.

Natalia's goalscoring form in England during the first half of the 2013–14 WSL season saw her recalled to the national squad after a 5 year absence. Coach Ignacio Quereda included her in the 40-player pre-selection for UEFA Women's Euro 2013, but she did not feature in the final 23 player list for the tournament.

She was part of Spain's squad for the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup in Canada.

Her name has often been misspelled as Natalia de Pablos.

Honours

Club

Rayo Vallecano

• Primera División (3): 2008–09, 2009–10, 2010–11
• Copa de la Reina de Fútbol (1): 2008

Arsenal

• FA Women's Cup (1): 2015–16
• FA WSL Cup (1): 2015

International

Spain

• UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship (1): 2004

References

8. La Espartana de Vallecas. Sus 300 goles en FutFem La Espartana de Vallecas

External links

• Natalia Pablos – FIFA competition record
• Natalia Pablos – UEFA competition record
• Profile at Arsenal FC
• Natalia Pablos at Soccerway