Maribel Domínguez

Maribel Domínguez
Domínguez in the Red Stars jersey (2013)
Personnel
Surname	Maribel Guadalupe Domínguez Castelán
birthday	November 18, 1978
place of birth	Mexico City ,  Mexico
position	Storm
Women
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2002-2003	Kansas City Mystics	? (18)
2003	Atlanta beat	18 0(7)
2005-2006	FC Barcelona
2007	San Diego Sunwaves	3 0(3)
2007-2013	UE L'Estartit
2013	Chicago Red Stars	16 0(2)
2013–	Panteras UAEH
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals) 2
1998–	Mexico	128 (80)
1 Only league games are given. Status: end of season 2013 2 As of February 16, 2016

Maribel Guadalupe Domínguez Castelán (born November 18, 1978 in Mexico City ; "Marigol" or "Miragoal") is the most successful Mexican soccer player.

Career

societies

Domínguez grew up in the slums and learned football in boys' clubs. She started her career in 2002 with the Kansas City Mystics in the North American W-League . She then moved to the US professional league WUSA to Atlanta Beat and later played for the Spanish soccer club FC Barcelona.

Domínguez was the first female footballer to receive a professional contract with a men's football club. But the contract with the Mexican second division club Atlético Celaya was banned by FIFA President Sepp Blatter and the FIFA Executive Committee .

In the 2013 season she played in the newly founded National Women's Soccer League , the highest American professional league in women's football, for the Chicago Red Stars . After the end of the season she moved back to Mexico and joined the Panteras UAEH in the Super Liga Femenil de Fútbol .

National team

At the 1999 World Cup in the USA, she scored the first World Cup goal for the Mexicans in a 7-1 draw in their first group game against Brazil . After two more defeats against Germany (0: 6) and Italy (0: 2), the Mexicans were eliminated after the preliminary round.

At the 2002 CONCACAF Women's Gold Cup , she had three goals, two of which were 4-1 in the game for third place against Costa Rica, which helped Mexico reach the play-off games for the World Cup qualifiers. In these, however, she remained without a goal against the Japanese and after a 2-2 home game, the 2003 World Cup was missed by a 2-2 draw in the second leg .

In qualifying for the Olympic Games in Athens , she scored a total of 14 goals and thus played a major role in the fact that she was able to take part in the women's football tournament with Mexico . In the first game against the People's Republic of China , she scored the 1-0 goal of the Mexicans so far at the Olympic Games. The Chinese were able to equalize, but since Mexico only lost 2-0 to world champions Germany, while China lost 8-0, they even reached the quarter-finals, which they lost 5-0 to Brazil.

In 2005 she was nominated for FIFA World Player of the Year .

At the CONCACAF Women's Gold Cup 2006 she was the top scorer with two goals together with Mónica Ocampo , Christine Sinclair and Abby Wambach , but it was only enough for third place and the playoff games against Japan, which this time lost 2-0 in Japan was, but in the second leg only a 2-1 was achieved.

Things went better at the 2010 CONCACAF Women's Gold Cup , where she scored 1-0 in the third minute of the semi-final against the USA. The neighbors were able to equalize, but with a goal from Veronica Perez , the USA was defeated for the first time, for which this also meant the first defeat at the Gold Cup. The subsequent final against Canada was lost, but when they reached the final, the Mexicans were qualified for the World Cup in Germany.

In the squad list for the 2011 World Cup , she was listed with 92 games and 68 goals. Since then, more games have been added, including all three games at the World Cup, in which she also scored a goal. This was followed by appearances at the Pan American Games 2011 , the qualifying tournament for the Olympic Games 2012 in January 2012, the Four Nations Tournament 2012 in the People's Republic of China in February 2012, at the Four Nations Tournament in Brazil in December 2012, at the Algarve Cup 2013 , the Central American and Caribbean Games 2014.

She was not considered for the CONCACAF Women's Gold Cup 2014 , in which Mexico qualified for the 2015 World Cup, and the World Cup took place without it, as did the Pan American Games in 2015 that followed immediately .

At the four-nation tournament in Brazil in December 2015, at the four-nation tournament in 2016 in the People's Republic of China and the Olympic qualifying tournament in February 2016, in which she scored four goals, she was then taken into account again, so that she is now at least 128 international matches were used and scored at least 80 goals. The line-ups were not published for all of the Mexican women’s games. Therefore, the number of internationals can be even higher.

successes

• Second place at the CONCACAF Women's Gold Cup 2010
• Third place in the CONCACAF Women's Gold Cup in 2002 and 2006 and in the Pan American Games in 2011

literature

• Anna Schulte: Portrait of Maribel Domínguez Castelán . In: Dario Azzellini and Stefan Thimmel (eds.): Futbolistas. Soccer and Latin America. Hopes, heroes, politics and commerce . 2006, ISBN 3-935936-46-X

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ussoccer.com: NWSL Announces Allocation of 55 National Team Players to Eight Clubs ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2013 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. 
2. ↑ Maribel Domínguez jugará en Panteras UAEH ( Spanish ) Criterio Hidalgo. April 2, 2013. Archived from the original on November 4, 2013. 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. Retrieved November 2, 2013. 
3. ↑ Women Gold Cup 2002
4. ↑ The nominees from Central / South America - Marta and Maribel Dominguez
5. ↑ Women Gold Cup 2010
6. ↑ FIFA Women's World Cup Germany 2011 - List of Players

Web links

• Maribel Dominguez in the database of FIFA (English)