Alina Garciamendez

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

Career

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

The 1.76 meter tall center-back was from August 2009 to Winter 2012 at the Stanford Cardinals under contract, for which they in 2009 and 2010 all 52 games duty graduated in the seasons. In Game 2010, she also achieved her first competitive goal for the Cardinals in a 2-1 win against Santa Clara.

On January 11, 2013, it was pulled at the NWSL Draft as number 19 of the second round of Washington Spirit. After her college graduation, she joined in February in the newly established National Women 's Soccer League, the highest professional league in the American women's soccer to the Washington Spirit. In April 2013, it participated in a trial of the German football league club 1st FFC Frankfurt. This performance test, they could exist and will soon have a June 30, 2013 following Germany.

Internationally

After Garciamendenz had gone through the U -15 and U-16 U.S., it fell in 2006 by a number of performance tests, the U.S. women 's national soccer team, and then opted for the Mexican U-18 women's football team.

The defender played in the U-20 World Cup 2010 Women in Germany as they team captain for the Mexican U- 20 Women's national football team, scoring against Nigeria equalizer for a 1-1 draw, which Mexico has secured the group. Even at the football World Cup Women 2011, she was part of the Mexican World Cup squad and completed all three group stage matches the Mexicans in full length.