Romina Paz Parraguirre Plaza (born 22 September 1990) is a Chilean

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby le ...

who plays as a

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. She has been a member of the Chile women's national team.

International career

Parraguirre was a non-playing squad member for Chile at the

2008 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup The 2008 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup was the 4th edition of the tournament. It was held in Chile between 19 November and 7 December 2008. Sixteen teams, comprising representatives from all six confederations, took part in the final competition, i ...

. She capped at

senior level Senior (shortened as Sr.) means "the elder" in Latin and is often used as a suffix for the elder of two or more people in the same family with the same given name, usually a parent or grandparent. It may also refer to: * Senior (name), a surname ...

during the

2006 South American Women's Football Championship The 2006 South American Women's Football Championship (''Campeonato Sudamericano de Fútbol Femenino 2006'') was the fifth staging of the South American Women's Football Championship (now known as ''Copa América Femenina'') and determined the CO ...

. Romi is now playing the amazing Ravens first grade team in Sydney and just won goalie of the year.

Awards

;Colo-Colo *

Copa Libertadores Femenina The CONMEBOL Libertadores Femenina, named as "Copa Libertadores Femenina" ( pt, Copa Libertadores Feminina or Taça Libertadores Feminina) is an annual international women's association football club competition in South America. It is organized by ...

runner-up:

2015 File:2015 Events Collage new.png, From top left, clockwise: Civil service in remembrance of November 2015 Paris attacks; Germanwings Flight 9525 was purposely crashed into the French Alps; the rubble of residences in Kathmandu following the Apri ...

2017 File:2017 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: The War Against ISIS at the Battle of Mosul (2016-2017); aftermath of the Manchester Arena bombing; The Solar eclipse of August 21, 2017 ("Great American Eclipse"); North Korea tests a ser ...

Other media

Parraguirre has participated in Chilean reality television series Pelotón and Calle 7. She was runner-up in the fifth season of the former and has won the sixth and eighth editions of the latter.

References

1990 births Living people Cardinal Silva Henríquez Catholic University alumni Footballers from Santiago Chilean women's footballers Women's association football goalkeepers Colo-Colo (women) footballers Chile women's international footballers Chilean expatriate women's footballers Chilean expatriate sportspeople in Australia Expatriate women's soccer players in Australia {{Chile-women-footy-bio-stub