Lara Esponda (born 5 November 2005) is an Argentine footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for River Plate in Argentina's Women's Primera A.
[1][2] Esponda began playing football with a youth team in Ituzaingó, Argentina.
She started as a forward, but was asked to fill in for an absent goalkeeper, and has played that position since.
[8] Esponda was called up to the Argentina national U-20 team in February 2022 to play in the 2022 South American Under-20 Women's Football Championship in Chile.
[10] It was part of a mixed call between sub-18 and sub-20 for the COTIF La Alcudia 2022 tournament,[11][12] where her team finished runner-up.