Itzel González Rodríguez (born 14 August 1994) is a Mexican professional

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who plays as a

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for

Liga MX Femenil Liga MX Femenil, also known as Liga BBVA MX Femenil for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league and the highest level of women's football in Mexico. Supervised by the Mexican Football Federation, Federación Mexicana d ...

side

Tigres UANL Club Tigres de la Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, abbreviated as Tigres UANL and simply known as Tigres or internationally as Tigres de México, is a Mexican professional Association football, football club based in the Monterrey metropo ...

and the Mexico women's national team.

College career

González played

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for the

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between 2012 and 2016, redshirting in 2015.

Club career

On 24 May 2025, González made several key saves for Tigres in the

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against

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. She stopped two

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during regulation but could not deny Esther on the rebound of the second penalty as Tigres lost 1–0.

International career

González was a non-playing squad member for the

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at the

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. González made her debut for the senior Mexico women's national team on 15 December 2019, in a 4–0 friendly defeat by

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at Estadio Fonte Luminosa in

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Honours

Club

Club América *

: Clausura 2023

References

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* * 1994 births Living people Footballers from Tijuana Mexican women's footballers Women's association football goalkeepers UC San Diego Tritons women's soccer players Club Tijuana footballers Sevilla FC (women) players Liga MX Femenil players Mexico women's international footballers Pan American Games footballers for Mexico Footballers at the 2019 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 Mexico women's youth international footballers Club América (women) footballers Competitors at the 2023 Central American and Caribbean Games Central American and Caribbean Games medalists in football Central American and Caribbean Games gold medalists for Mexico 21st-century Mexican sportswomen {{Mexico-footy-goalkeeper-stub