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Maribel Domínguez Personal information Full name Maribel Guadalupe Domínguez Castelán Date of birth 18 November 1978 Place of birth Mexico City, Mexico Height 1.61 m (5 ft 3 in) Playing position Forward Club information Current club UE L'Estartit Senior career* Years Team Apps† (Gls)† 2002–2003 Kansas City Mystics 2003 Atlanta Beat 2005-2006 Barcelona 2007- UE L'Estartit National team‡ 1998- Mexico 92 (68) * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 22 September 2008.
† Appearances (Goals).
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 5 July 2011Maribel Guadalupe Domínguez Castelán (born November 18, 1978 in Mexico City, México) is a Mexican footballer.
Career
In the 2004 Athens Olympics, Domínguez led the Mexican women's Olympic soccer team to the quarter-finals.[1] Later in 2004, she accepted a two year contract from a second division Mexican men's football club Atlético Celaya. This was a previously unprecedented move. The Federación Mexicana de Fútbol Asociación did not object, but deferred to FIFA headquarters in Zurich for an official ruling.
A statement from FIFA ruled against mixed-sex football teams. From the report: "There must be a clear separation between men's and women's football."[2][3] Furthermore, a ban was placed on Domínguez appearing in an exhibition game outside the league but still alongside men.
"I just wanted to be given the chance to try," Domínguez said. "If I failed I would have been the first to say I can't do it, the first to admit it doesn't work. But at least I would have tried." [4]
In 2002 Maribel immigrated to the US to play with Kansas City Mystics. In her first year with the Atlanta Beat of the Women's United Soccer Association, she scored 17 goals and was awarded the Most Valuable Player of the tournament.
References
External links
- 2004 Olympics Roster
- It's a man's game - Guardian article on the FIFA ruling.
Mexico squad – 2004 Summer Olympics 
Mexico squad – 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup Categories:- 1978 births
- Living people
- Mexican women's footballers
- Footballers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Olympic footballers of Mexico
- Sportspeople from Mexico City
- Women's United Soccer Association players
- Atlanta Beat (WUSA) players
- Expatriate soccer players in the United States
- Expatriate footballers in Spain
- 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup players
- FIFA Century Club
- Mexican football biography stubs
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