Mónica Rose Alvarado Rodríguez (born 11 January 1991) is a professional

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 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 ...

club

UNAM The National Autonomous University of Mexico (, UNAM) is a public research university in Mexico. It has several campuses in Mexico City, and many others in various locations across Mexico, as well as a presence in nine countries. It also has 34 ...

. Born in the United States, she represented

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at international level. Mainly a

centre-back In the sport of association football, a defender is an outfield player whose primary role is to stop attacks during the game and prevent the opposition from scoring. Defenders fall into four main categories: centre-backs, full-backs, sweepers ...

, she can also operate as a

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. She was a member of the Mexico national team for the

FIFA Women's World Cup The FIFA Women's World Cup is an international association football competition contested by the senior list of women's national association football teams, women's national teams of the members of the FIFA, Fédération Internationale de Footb ...

squads in

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 ...

. She also played the 2010 U-20 World Cup.Statistics
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Mexican Football Federation The Mexican Football Federation (), abbreviated as FMF is the official governing body of football in Mexico. It administers the men's and women's national teams with all its youth teams, the national teams of futsal and beach soccer, Liga MX wit ...

1991 births Living people Mexican women's footballers Women's association football defenders Mexico women's international footballers 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup players 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup players Footballers at the 2015 Pan American Games Soccer players from Santa Monica, California American women's soccer players Mississippi State Bulldogs women's soccer players TCU Horned Frogs women's soccer players American sportspeople of Mexican descent Pan American Games bronze medalists for Mexico Pan American Games footballers for Mexico Pan American Games bronze medalists in football Medalists at the 2015 Pan American Games C.F. Pachuca (women) footballers Club Tijuana (women) footballers Liga MX Femenil players 21st-century American sportswomen 21st-century Mexican sportswomen {{US-women-footy-defender-stub