María Belén Potassa (born 12 December 1988), known as Belén Potassa, is an Argentine

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 lea ...

who plays as a forward for Peluquería Mixta Friol. She has been a member of the Argentina women's national team. She previously played for the women's teams of

Rosario Central Club Atlético Rosario Central (), more commonly referred to as Rosario Central, or simply Central, is a sports club based in Rosario, Argentina, that plays in the Argentine Primera División. The club was officially founded on 24 December 1889, ...

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Santiago Morning Club de Deportes Santiago Morning (popularly known as Chaguito Morning or Morning) is a Chilean professional Association football, football club based in Recoleta, Chile, Recoleta, Santiago currently playing in Primera B de Chile, Primera B. Hi ...

(in Chile) and

Boca Juniors Club Atlético Boca Juniors () is an Argentine professional sports club based in La Boca, a neighbourhood of Buenos Aires. The club is best known for its men's professional Association football, football team which, since its promotion in 1913 ...

before joining

UAI Urquiza Club Deportivo UAI Urquiza (formerly "Club Ferrocarril Urquiza") is an Argentine professional sports club based in Villa Lynch, General San Martín Partido of Greater Buenos Aires. Its men's football team currently plays at Primera B Metropolitana ...

in July 2014.

International career

Potassa represented Argentina at the 2006 South American U-20 Women's Championship,

2006 FIFA U-20 Women's World Championship The 2006 FIFA U-20 Women's World Championship was held in Russia from 17 August to 3 September 2006. It was the officially recognized world championship for women's under-20 national association football teams. Matches were held in four Moscow st ...

and 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 ...

. At senior level, she played 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 ...

, three

Pan American Games The Pan American Games, known as the Pan Am Games, is a continental multi-sport event in the Americas. It features thousands of athletes participating in competitions to win different summer sports. It is held among athletes from nations of th ...

editions (

2007 2007 was designated as the International Heliophysical Year and the International Polar Year. Events January * January 1 **Bulgaria and Romania 2007 enlargement of the European Union, join the European Union, while Slovenia joins the Eur ...

2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...

and

2015 2015 was designated by the United Nations as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soil __TOC__ Events January * January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...

), the

2007 FIFA Women's World Cup The 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup, the fifth edition of the FIFA Women's World Cup, was an international football competition for women held in China from 10 to 30 September 2007. Originally, China was to host the 2003 edition, but the outbreak o ...

, the

2008 Summer Olympics The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and officially branded as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes fro ...

and the

2018 Copa América Femenina The 2018 Copa América Femenina was the eighth edition of the CONMEBOL Copa América Femenina (also referred to as the ''Copa América Femenina''), the quadrennial international football competition for women's national teams in South America af ...

International goals

''Scores and results list Argentina's goal tally first''

Personal life

Potassa also holds Spanish citizenship, her full name in that document being María Belén Potassa Ríos.

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* 1988 births Living people Argentine women's footballers Footballers from Santa Fe Province Women's association football forwards Argentina women's international footballers 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup players 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup players Olympic footballers for Argentina Footballers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Pan American Games footballers for Argentina Footballers at the 2007 Pan American Games Footballers at the 2011 Pan American Games Footballers at the 2015 Pan American Games Rosario Central (women) players San Lorenzo de Almagro (women) players Santiago Morning (women) footballers Boca Juniors (women) footballers UAI Urquiza (women) players Fundación Albacete players Segunda Federación (women) players Argentine expatriate women's footballers Argentine expatriate sportspeople in Chile Expatriate women's footballers in Chile Argentine expatriate sportspeople in Spain Expatriate women's footballers in Spain 21st-century Argentine sportswomen Argentine emigrants to Spain Naturalised citizens of Spain Spanish women's footballers Sportspeople of Argentine descent {{Spain-women-footy-bio-stub