Lucero Ximena Cuevas Flores (born 22 January 1996) is a Mexican
footballer
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who plays as a
striker for
Club León
Club León Fútbol Club, also known as León, is a Mexican professional football club based in León, Guanajuato, that competes in the Liga MX, the top flight of Mexican football.
León has won the Primera División de México/Liga MX title ...
.
Club career
Prior to turning professional, Cuevas played in the amateur Liga Mexicana de Fútbol Femenil with Ballenas Galeana and Leonas Morelos.
América
On 29 July 2017, Cuevas made her debut for
Club América against
Club Tijuana
Club Tijuana Xoloitzcuintles de Caliente, commonly known as Tijuana, or simply as ''Xoloitzcuintle, Xolos'', is a Mexican professional Football team, football club based in Tijuana. The club's badge is the founder's (Jorge Hank) hairless xoloit ...
, scoring the winning goal in the 19th minute. On 4 August, Cuevas scored the first
hat-trick
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Origin
The term first appeared in 1858 in cricket, to describe H. H. Stephenson taking three wic ...
in
Liga MX Femenil
The Liga MX Femenil, officially known as the Liga BBVA MX Femenil for sponsorship reasons, is the highest division of women's football in Mexico. Supervised by the Mexican Football Federation, this professional league has 18 teams, each coincidin ...
history in a 5–0 win over
Cruz Azul
Club de Futbol Cruz Azul or simply Cruz Azul () is a professional football club based in Mexico City, Mexico. It competes in the Liga MX, the top division of Mexican football. Because "azul" means "blue" in Spanish, the club has traditionally ...
. She ended the
2017 Apertura as top goalscorer, netting 15 times in 14 games. She repeated the feat in the
2018 Clausura, again scoring 15 goals.
Tijuana
In December 2019, Cuevas and her América teammate
Esmeralda Verdugo were the victims of an
express kidnapping
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Known in the United States sin ...
. The following month, she joined
Club Tijuana
Club Tijuana Xoloitzcuintles de Caliente, commonly known as Tijuana, or simply as ''Xoloitzcuintle, Xolos'', is a Mexican professional Football team, football club based in Tijuana. The club's badge is the founder's (Jorge Hank) hairless xoloit ...
on loan.
León
In August 2020, Cuevas joined
Club León
Club León Fútbol Club, also known as León, is a Mexican professional football club based in León, Guanajuato, that competes in the Liga MX, the top flight of Mexican football.
León has won the Primera División de México/Liga MX title ...
ahead of the
2020–21 season. She departed León at the end of that season.
Pachuca
In June 2021, Cuevas signed with
C.F. Pachuca
Club de Fútbol Pachuca is a Mexican professional football team based in Pachuca, Hidalgo, that competes in Liga MX. Founded by Cornish miners from Camborne and Redruth in 1901, it is one of the oldest football clubs in the Americas, and was ...
.
International career
On 15 November 2017 Cuevas received her first call-up with the
Mexico national team
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Mexico has qualified to seventeen World Cups and has qualified conse ...
, On November 27 she made her debut with the national team coming in as a substitute for
Charlyn Corral
Verónica Charlyn Corral Ang (born 11 September 1991) is a Mexican footballer who plays as a striker for Liga MX Femenil club CF Pachuca and the Mexico women's national team. She has previously played for Atlético Madrid in Spain, for Merila ...
at minute 79' in a game that ended with a favorable score of 0–2 against
Costa Rica in a match held in the
Alejandro Morera Soto Stadium.
Career statistics
Club
Honours and achievements
Individual
* Liga MX Femenil top scorer:
Apertura 2017
* Liga MX Femenil Team of The Season:
Apertura 2017
* Liga MX Femenil top scorer:
Clausura 2018
* Liga MX Femenil Team of The Season:
Clausura 2018
See also
*
List of people from Morelos, Mexico
The following are people who were born, raised, or who gained significant prominence for living in the Mexican state of Morelos:
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References
External links
*
1996 births
Living people
People from Cuernavaca
Mexican women's footballers
Footballers from Morelos
Women's association football forwards
Liga MX Femenil players
Club Tijuana (women) footballers
Club América (women) footballers
Club León (women) footballers
Mexico women's international footballers
Mexican footballers
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