Sara Botello: Aymeric Laporte's Wife, Age and Wedding

Sara Botello is the wife of Spain and Athletic Club defender Aymeric Laporte. She is a dancer from Bilbao, Spanish, trained in ballet and contemporary dance, and the couple married on 24 June 2023 after being together since about 2016. Our old article called her his girlfriend; that is out of date, and this page is rewritten with what Spanish media have reported up to November 2026.

Laporte himself is also in a different place than when we first wrote about him. He left Manchester City for Al-Nassr in 2023, returned to Athletic Club in September 2025 and, in July 2026, won the World Cup with Spain.

Sara Botello at a glance

Full name: Sara Botello. Her Instagram account is @sara_botello.
Nationality and origin: Spanish, born and raised in Bilbao (Basque Country), according to OKDiario and ESdiario.
Age: reported as born in 1994, which makes her 32 in November 2026. Outlets disagree on the day (see below).
Profession: professional dancer (ballet and contemporary dance) and social media creator.
Husband: Aymeric Laporte, married 24 June 2023.
Children: two, a boy and a girl. The couple has not published their names, so we do not give them.
Husband's club: Athletic Club (Bilbao), since September 2025.

Who is Sara Botello?

Sara Botello is a dancer from Bilbao. OKDiario (19 July 2026) and ESdiario (27 July 2026) both describe her as trained in ballet and contemporary dance, and both say she has worked as an influencer and content creator. ESdiario adds that she danced with several companies and that she has Galician roots.

There is also a cheerleading chapter. Both outlets say she was a cheerleader for Bilbao Basket, the city's professional basketball club in the Spanish ACB league. One of her own old Instagram posts, captioned only with a basketball and a dancer emoji, fits that story, although a caption alone does not prove it. We could not find an interview in which she talks about her dancing career, so most of what is published comes from her own social media and Spanish entertainment outlets.

How old is Sara Botello?

Spanish outlets do not fully agree on her age. OKDiario and ESdiario, both in July 2026, give her date of birth as 9 October 1994 and describe her as born in Bilbao. In July 2024, Qué! gave a different date, 8 July 1994. Because she has not published her birthday herself, we treat 1994 as the reported year and the exact day as unconfirmed. Either date makes her 32 in November 2026.

Where is Sara Botello from?

She is Spanish and from Bilbao, the largest city of the Basque Country. This also answers the searches for her nationality and ethnicity: no outlet we checked describes any other nationality. ESdiario says she has Galician roots on her family side, which is a regional origin inside Spain, not a different nationality.

How Aymeric Laporte and Sara Botello met

OKDiario and ESdiario both date the start of the relationship to 2016. According to OKDiario it began with a chance encounter that year, and ESdiario says Sara was then a Bilbao Basket cheerleader and Laporte an Athletic Club player. In 2016 Laporte was still at Athletic, two years before his move to Manchester.

Neither of them has told the story in an interview that we could find, so the details (who approached whom, where) are not confirmed. The old version of this article said her parents helped him settle in Bilbao; we could not source that and have removed it.

When did Laporte and Sara Botello get married?

Hola reported on 24 June 2023 that the couple had married that day, in a ceremony with their closest family and friends. ESdiario says the venue was a castle in the Barcelona area. Hola's photos show Sara in a classic Pronovias dress with a mermaid cut, an open back and a sweetheart neckline, and report that the proposal had come "months" earlier. A young son, the couple's first child, was a witness at the ceremony.

Their third wedding anniversary fell in June 2026, during the World Cup, and Hola reported in July that they were celebrating it in Mallorca. As far as is publicly known they are still married, and we found no report of a separation.

Do Aymeric Laporte and Sara Botello have children?

Yes, two. Hola's wedding report mentions a young son, and Hola's July 2026 holiday story says they have two children without naming them. OKDiario says the first child was born in 2021 and the second, a girl, in 2023. The couple has not shared the children's names or faces in the posts we checked, and we are not publishing names that appear only in gossip pieces.

Sara Botello on Instagram

Sara's Instagram account, @sara_botello, is public. ESdiario put her following at about 38,000 in July 2026. The captions we saw are mostly in Spanish.

This post, tagged at the Etihad Stadium in Manchester and captioned "Match day !", dates from Laporte's City years:

Her dance side is visible too. In this post she writes, in Spanish, that when you dance you have the luxury of being yourself, and that nothing and nobody should be able to change that:

And this one, with a basketball and a dancer emoji, links to the Bilbao Basket period the Spanish press mentions:

Sara Botello and the 2026 World Cup

When Spain won the 2026 World Cup, beating Argentina 1-0 after extra time in the final on 19 July, Laporte was in the squad and, per English Wikipedia, started all eight of Spain's matches. ESdiario described Sara as one of his main supports away from the pitch, though it did not detail a specific role during the tournament.

After the final, Hola reported on 28 July 2026 that the family was resting in Mallorca, with a pool, sunsets and dinners out, before Laporte went back to training with Athletic Club. He also played padel at the Rafa Nadal Academy in Manacor with Maribel Nadal and others, according to the same report.

Who is Aymeric Laporte?

Aymeric Laporte is a centre-back born on 27 May 1994 in Agen, France, which makes him 32 in November 2026. He plays for Athletic Club and for Spain, the country he chose after captaining France's youth teams. The dated timeline below follows English Wikipedia, with club dates checked against Athletic Club's own announcement where available.

2010: joins Athletic Club's youth setup at Lezama after a season at Bayonne.
2012: makes his first-team debut for Athletic Club in the Europa League on 28 November and his La Liga debut on 9 December.
2013: France runner-up at the Under-19 European Championship, named in the team of the tournament; first professional goal at Getafe.
2015: wins the Supercopa de España with Athletic.
2016: suffers a fractured right fibula and dislocated ankle on Under-21 duty with France in March.
January 2018: signs for Manchester City for a reported 57 million pounds.
2018 to 2023: wins five Premier League titles, two FA Cups and three League Cups, and the 2022/23 Champions League with City.
2021: receives Spanish nationality in May and debuts for Spain on 4 June in a goalless friendly with Portugal.
2022: plays at the World Cup in Qatar, where Spain are knocked out by Morocco on penalties in the round of 16.
August 2023: joins Al-Nassr in Saudi Arabia.
2024: wins Euro 2024 with Spain.
11 September 2025: returns to Athletic Club on a three-year deal to 30 June 2028, announced by the club.
2026: named in Spain's World Cup squad on 25 May and wins the tournament on 19 July.

English Wikipedia counts 57 caps and two goals for Spain (as of October 2026), and Hola said in July 2026 that he had passed 50 matches for the national team. He was called up by the senior France squad twice, in 2016 and 2019, but never played for it.

Aymeric Laporte in November 2026

In November 2026 Laporte plays for Athletic Club, where he went back to training after the summer break that followed the World Cup. His contract runs to 30 June 2028 according to the club. He is a world champion and a European champion with Spain.

Frequently asked questions

Is Sara Botello married to Aymeric Laporte?

Yes. Hola reported their wedding on 24 June 2023. Older articles, including our own earlier version, call her his girlfriend, which was true until then.

How old is Sara Botello?

Spanish media report that she was born in 1994, so she is 32 in November 2026. OKDiario and ESdiario give 9 October 1994, Qué! gave 8 July 1994 in 2024, so the exact date is unconfirmed.

Where is Sara Botello from?

Bilbao, in the Basque Country, Spain. ESdiario adds Galician family roots.

What does Sara Botello do?

She is a trained ballet and contemporary dancer and creates content for social media. Spanish outlets also report that she was a cheerleader for Bilbao Basket.

How did Laporte and Sara Botello meet?

Spanish outlets say the relationship started in 2016, when he played for Athletic Club in Bilbao and she was a Bilbao Basket cheerleader. The details of that first meeting have not been told in an interview we could find.