Lydia Nayeli Rangel Hernández (born 28 February 1992) is a Mexican

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who plays as a

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for

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and the Mexico women's national team.

Early life

Rangel was born and raised in Monterrey,

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Playing career

Club

On 11 January 2013 she joined

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in the new National Women's Soccer League. In December 2016, she joined

Sporting de Huelva Sporting Club de Huelva is a Spanish women's football club from Huelva, Andalusia. It was founded in Huelva in 2004 as a restructuring of an homonymous junior (men's) football club, which had been founded in 1979 and dissolved nine years later, ...

of the

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first division, Primera División. In July 2017, she joined her hometown club

of the newly formed

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International

Rangel was part of Mexico's squad at the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup and captained the team at the

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, playing three matches in each tournament.

Honours

Club

; UANL *

: Clausura 2018 *

: Clausura 2019

Personal life

Rangel is in a relationship.

References

External links

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Profile
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FIFA 2015 Women's World Cup player profile
* * 1992 births Living people Sportspeople from Monterrey Mexican women's footballers Footballers from Nuevo León Women's association football midfielders National Women's Soccer League players NJ/NY Gotham FC players Primera División (women) players Sporting de Huelva players Liga MX Femenil players Tigres UANL (women) footballers Mexico women's international footballers 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup players Footballers at the 2011 Pan American Games Pan American Games bronze medalists for Mexico Pan American Games medalists in football 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup players Footballers at the 2015 Pan American Games Mexican expatriate women's footballers Mexican expatriate sportspeople in the United States Expatriate women's soccer players in the United States Mexican expatriate sportspeople in Spain Expatriate women's footballers in Spain Medalists at the 2015 Pan American Games LGBT association football players Mexican LGBT sportspeople Mexican footballers {{Mexico-women-footy-bio-stub