Alina Garciamendez

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Alina Garciamendez
Personnel
Surname	Alina Lisi Garciamendez Rowold
birthday	April 16, 1991
place of birth	Los Gatos , California ,  United States
position	Defense
Juniors
Years	station
2002-2009	Dallas Texans
2004-2008	Ursuline Bears
2009–2012	Stanford Cardinal
Women
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2013	Washington Spirit	0 (0)
2013-2014	1. FFC Frankfurt II	9 (2)
2013-2014	1. FFC Frankfurt	3 (0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals) 2
2005	USA U-15
2006	USA U-16
2008-2010	Mexico U-20	at least 6 (1)
2010–	Mexico	49 (1)
1 Only league games are given. Status: end of season 2013/14 2 As of June 9, 2015

Alina Lisi Garciamendez Rowold (born April 16, 1991 in Los Gatos , California ) is an American soccer player with Mexican roots.

Career

Garciamendez started her career with the Texas football club Dallas Texans (91). During this time she played the winter season with the Ursuline Academy Bears from 2004 to 2008 .

The 1.76 meter tall central defender was under contract with the Stanford Cardinals from August 2009 to winter 2012 , for which she played all 52 competitive games in the 2009 and 2010 seasons. In 2010 she also scored her first competitive goal for the Cardinals in a 2-1 win over Santa Clara.

On January 11, 2013, she was drawn as number 19 in the second round of Washington Spirit in the NWSL Draft . After graduating from university, she moved to the newly founded National Women's Soccer League , the highest American professional league in women's football, to the Washington Spirit in February . In April 2013 she took part in a test training session for the German soccer league club 1. FFC Frankfurt . She was able to pass this performance test and moved to Germany on June 30, 2013. For Frankfurt, however, she only played two games in the Bundesliga and the cup final , where she came on two minutes before the end of the game. She also played nine times in the second team. On June 1, 2014 Garciamendez was bid farewell at 1. FFC Frankfurt, she then returned to the USA.

International

After passing through the US U-15 and U-16s, Garciamendenz failed multiple performance tests for the US women's national soccer team in 2006 and then settled for the Mexico U-18 women's national soccer team .

Garciamendenz took part in the U-20 World Cup in Chile with the Mexican U-20 women's football team in 2008 and was used in two games in which Mexico conceded five goals (1: 5 against eventual runner-up North Korea and 0: 5 against Brazil ). On July 24, 2009, Venezuela played their first international match for the Mexican women's national soccer team . The defender played again for the Mexican U-20 women's national soccer team at the 2010 U-20 Women's World Cup in Germany and scored the equalizer against Nigeria to make it 1-1, giving Mexico the group win. At the CONCACAF Women's Gold Cup 2010 she reached the final against Canada with Mexico and qualified for the 2011 World Cup. Mexico then lost to Canada 0-1. At the 2011 Women's World Cup , she was a member of the Mexican World Cup squad and played all three Mexican women’s first round matches in full. She was also part of the squad for the 2014 Gold Cup, in which Mexico qualified third for the 2015 World Cup, and is part of the Mexican squad for the 2015 World Cup in Canada.

successes

• DFB Cup Winner : 2014

Web links

• Alina Garciamendez in the database of FIFA (English)
• Alina Garciamendez in the database of weltfussball.de
• Alina Garciamendez in the database of the German Football Association
• Alina Garciamendez in the Soccerdonna.de database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Alina Garciamendez - NWSL News ( Memento of the original from December 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ Five Cardinal Receive Assignments to New League Stanford senior Garciamendez among those allocated from national teams ( Memento from March 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ Former Coppell star Chioma Ubogagu and Ursuline Academy defender Alina Garciamendez help Stanford win first women's soccer title ( Memento from June 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ Defender Garciamendez steadies Stanford . San Francisco Gate. Retrieved January 9, 2013.
5. ↑ Stanford Stars Selected in NWSL Draft New league takes Quon, Nogueira in second round ( Memento from March 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
6. ↑ ussoccer.com: NWSL Announces Allocation of 55 National Team Players to Eight Clubs ( Memento from March 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
7. ↑ Mexican National Team players Garciamendez, Sandoval, Saucedo and Diaz not playing this year ( Memento of the original from June 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
8. ↑ Mañana Inicia la NWSL ( Memento of April 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
9. ↑ Frankfurt signs Mexican national player ( Memento from June 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (Framba.de - women's football) - published on May 30, 2013
10. ↑ SGS Essen - 1. FFC Frankfurt 0: 3
11. ↑ 1. FFC Frankfurt says goodbye to Lira Alushi and Melanie Behringer in the last home game against Turbine Potsdam on Sunday - Alina Garciamendez, Babett Peter, Meike Weber and Jessica Wich leave the Frankfurter Bank ( Memento from June 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) from 29. May 2014
12. ↑ Alina Garciamendez Bio - Stanford University's Official Athletic Site ( Memento of March 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
13. ↑ Canada vs Mexico - 2010-12-12
14. ↑ Alina Garciamendez in the FIFA database (English)
15. ↑ La Selección Femenil Ya Se Encuentra en Estados Unidos . In: femexfut.org.mx . October 13, 2014. Archived from the original on October 17, 2014.