Mónica Desirée Monsiváis Salayandia (born 19 January 1988) is a Mexican professional

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who last played as a

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for

C.F. Monterrey Club de Fútbol Monterrey, often known simply as Monterrey or their nickname Rayados, is a Mexican professional football club based in Monterrey, Nuevo León which currently plays in Liga MX, the top tier of Mexican football. Founded on 28 ...

Club career

In 2014, she played with the

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. In 2015, Monsiváis played for Kazakhstani side

BIIK Kazygurt BIIK Shymkent ( kk, БИІК-Қазығұрт, BİIK-Qazyğūrt) is a women's football club based in Shymkent, Kazakhstan competing in the Kazakhstani Championship. Formerly established in Almaty as Alma-KTZh, the team won five championships in a ...

, where she made 24 appearances and scored 17 goals. In September 2021, Monsiváis became the first player to have scored 100 goals in

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. After playing for

since the inception of Liga MX Femenil in 2017, Monsiváis joined Scottish side Glasgow City in July 2022. She made her league debut for Glasgow City as a substitute in a 1–0 victory over Motherwell on 14 August 2022. Monsiváis left Glasgow City by mutual consent after five months with the club.

International career

Monsiváis represented

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at the 2016 CONCACAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Championship.

International goals

''Scores and results list Mexico's goal tally first''

References

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* * 1988 births Living people Women's association football forwards Mexican women's footballers Footballers from Durango People from Gómez Palacio, Durango Mexico women's international footballers Universiade silver medalists for Mexico Universiade medalists in football Medalists at the 2013 Summer Universiade BIIK Kazygurt players Liga MX Femenil players C.F. Monterrey (women) players Glasgow City F.C. players Mexican expatriate women's footballers Mexican expatriate sportspeople in Kazakhstan Expatriate women's footballers in Kazakhstan Toronto Lady Lynx players Mexican expatriate sportspeople in Scotland Mexican expatriate sportspeople in Canada Expatriate women's footballers in Scotland Expatriate women's soccer players in Canada Scottish Women's Premier League players Mexican footballers {{Mexico-women-footy-bio-stub