Valentina Alejandra Lefort Quezada (born 26 January 1988) is a Chilean football player who plays as a defender or

midfielder A midfielder is an outfield position in association football. Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...

. She last played for Spanish side

CD Móstoles URJC Club Deportivo Móstoles URJC, formerly CDE El Soto and CD Juventud Móstoles, is a Spanish football team based in Móstoles, in the autonomous community of Madrid. Founded in 1996, it plays in Segunda División RFEF - Group 1, holding home gam ...

Club career

Lefort began her career with

Universidad de Chile The University of Chile ( es, Universidad de Chile) is a public research university in Santiago, Chile. It was founded on November 19, 1842, and inaugurated on September 17, 1843.

. In 2010, she emigrated to the United States to study at the

University of Texas at San Antonio The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) is a public research university in San Antonio, Texas. With over 34,000 students across its four campuses spanning 758 acres, UTSA is the largest university in San Antonio and the eighth-largest by ...

and played for

UTSA Roadrunners The UTSA Roadrunners is a collegiate athletic program that represents the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA). The UTSA Roadrunners are also commonly referred to as "UTSA", "Roadrunners", "Runners", “The Meep Meeps”, or simply “The Bi ...

. Back in Chile, she joined Colo-Colo in February 2015. In the second half of the same year, she moved to Europe and signed with Slovenian club

ŽNK Pomurje Ženski nogometni klub Pomurje ( en, Women's Football Club Pomurje) or simply ŽNK Pomurje ( en, WFC Pomurje) is a Slovenian women's football club from the town of Beltinci, currently playing in the 1. SŽNL, the top division of Slovenian women' ...

, making three appearances in the

2015–16 UEFA Champions League The 2015–16 UEFA Champions League was the 61st season of Europe's premier club football tournament organised by UEFA, and the 24th season since it was renamed from the European Champion Clubs' Cup to the UEFA Champions League. Barcelona were t ...

. In 2016, she moved to Spain and joined RBB Féminas. She made her home in that country, playing after for CD TACON, coinciding with her compatriot

Camila Sáez Camila Alejandra Sáez Oyaneder (born 17 October 1994) is a Chilean professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Spanish Liga F club Madrid CFF and the Chile women's national team. Club career As a player of CD TACON, she coincide ...

, CD Samper, CD Leganés and

International career

In 2008, Lefort represented

Chile U20 Chile national under-20 football team, also known as Chile Sub-20 or La Rojita, is part of the Federación de Fútbol de Chile. The U-20 team is considered to be the breeding ground for future Chile national football team pla ...

in both the

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and the

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. In 2011, she represented the senior team in the Algarve Cup alongside her teammate

María José Rojas María José Alondra Rojas Pino (born 17 December 1987), informally known as Cote Rojas, is a Chilean professional footballer and is one of the top figures and one of the most outstanding players of the Chile women's national team. Rojas a 13 ...

Personal life

At the same time she was a player of Universidad de Chile, she attended the

Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso The Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaiso ( es, link=no, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso) (PUCV), also known as ''Universidad Católica de Valparaíso'' (UCV), is one of six Catholic universities in Chile and one of th ...

to study

mechanical engineering Mechanical engineering is the study of physical machines that may involve force and movement. It is an engineering branch that combines engineering physics and mathematics principles with materials science, to design, analyze, manufacture, and ...

. Lefort got an economics degree at the

and has mainly developed her profession in Spain.

Honours

UTSA Roadrunners *

Southland Conference The Southland Conference, abbreviated as SLC, is a collegiate athletic conference which operates in the South Central United States (specifically Texas and Louisiana). It participates in the NCAA's Division I for all sports; for football, it pa ...

: 2010

Club career

International career

Personal life

Honours

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