Sandra Stephany "Fany" Mayor Gutiérrez (born 23 September 1991) is a Mexican

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who plays as a

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for

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 coincidi ...

club

Tigres UANL Club de Fútbol Tigres de la Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, simply known as Tigres UANL or Tigres, is a Mexican professional football club based in San Nicolás de los Garza, a city in the Monterrey metropolitan area, Nuevo León. Foun ...

and the Mexico women's national team.

Early life

Mayor is from

Azcapotzalco Azcapotzalco ( nci, Āzcapōtzalco , , from ''wikt:azcapotzalli, āzcapōtzalli'' “anthill” + ''wikt:-co, -co'' “place”; literally, “In the place of the anthills”) is a Boroughs of Mexico City, borough (''demarcación territorial'') i ...

, an industrial suburb of

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. She played on boy's teams growing up and later on Mexican youth national teams.

Playing career

Collegiate

Mayor played for

Universidad de las Américas Puebla Universidad de las Américas Puebla, commonly known as UDLAP ( en, University of the Americas), is a Mexican private university located in San Andrés Cholula, near Puebla. The university is known for its programs in Finance, Arts and Humaniti ...

Úrvalsdeild

Mayor signed for

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ic Úrvalsdeild kvenna team

Þór/KA Þór/KA is an Icelandic women's football team based in Akureyri. It is a joint team fielded by Þór Akureyri and Knattspyrnufélag Akureyrar and currently competes in Úrvalsdeild kvenna. On September 29, 2017, they won their second Icelandi ...

in February 2016. On September 28, 2017, she won the Icelandic championship with Þór/KA after defeating FH, in the last game of the season, 2–0 with goals from

Sandra Jessen Sandra María Jessen (born 18 January 1995) is an Icelandic footballer who plays as a midfielder for Þór/KA and the Icelandic national football team. She won the Icelandic championship with Þór/KA in 2012 and 2017 and was named the Úrvalsd ...

and herself. After the game, Mayor was named as the player of the season. On April 24, she helped Þór/KA win the 2018

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. On April 29, she scored one goal in Þór/KA's 3–0 victory against

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in the Icelandic Super Cup.

International

In international competitions she played in the Women's 2011 World Cup in Germany where she represented Mexico against England, Japan, and New Zealand. In the Women's World Cup she scored in the game against New Zealand in the 2nd minute to open the scoring. In October 2017, she had a total of 55 international cups and 10 goals.

Personal life

In June 2016, fellow Mexico women's national teammate Bianca Sierra announced publicly that she had a relationship with Mayor. Mayor and Sierra are believed to be the first openly gay athletes in Mexican history. Previously, in 2015, Mexican coach,

Leonardo Cuellar Leonardo is a masculine given name, the Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese equivalent of the English, German, and Dutch name, Leonard Leonard or ''Leo'' is a common English masculine given name and a surname. The given name and surname originate ...

, had warned Mayor and Sierra to avoid any "stunts" or "holding hands". In 2016, Mayor was not selected by Cuellar to play for the Mexico national team and Sierra declined to play on the national team. Mayor departed Mexico to play in

. Sierra later joined her in Iceland. Mayor rejoined the Mexico national team, under new coach

Roberto Medina Roberto Gerardo Medina Arellano (born 18 April 1968) is a Mexican football manager and former player and current manager. He was the head coach of the Mexico women's national football team. Club career Medina began his professional career i ...

, for a friendly match against Venezuela on June 10, 2017. Sierra rejoined the national team shortly thereafter.

International goals

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

References

External links

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Tigres UANL Femenil Tigres UANL Femenil is a Mexican professional women's football club based in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico that competes in the Liga MX Femenil. The club has been the women's section of Tigres UANL since 2017. The team plays its home matches ...

* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Mayor, Stephany 1991 births Living people Women's association football midfielders Mexican women's footballers Footballers from Mexico City Mexico women's international footballers 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup players 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup players Pan American Games medalists in football Pan American Games bronze medalists for Mexico Footballers at the 2011 Pan American Games Footballers at the 2015 Pan American Games Footballers at the 2019 Pan American Games Universiade silver medalists for Mexico Universiade medalists in football Stephany Mayor Stephany Mayor Mexican expatriate women's footballers Mexican expatriate sportspeople in Iceland Expatriate women's footballers in Iceland Lesbian sportswomen LGBT association football players Mexican LGBT sportspeople Medalists at the 2013 Summer Universiade Medalists at the 2011 Pan American Games Medalists at the 2015 Pan American Games Liga MX Femenil players Mexican footballers