María Natalia Mauleón Piñón (born 4 February 2002) is a Mexican professional

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who plays as an

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for

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side

Pachuca Pachuca (; ), formally known as Pachuca de Soto, is the capital and largest city of the east-central Mexico, Mexican States of Mexico, state of Hidalgo (state), Hidalgo, located in the south-central part of the state. Pachuca Municipality, Pach ...

. Mauleon is also part of the

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Career

Mauleón was born in

Acuitzio Acuitzio Municipality is a municipality located in the central region of the Mexican state of Michoacán. Demographics The municipality had a population of 10,052 inhabitants according to the 2005 census. Its municipal seat is the city of Acu ...

Michoacán Michoacán, formally Michoacán de Ocampo, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Michoacán de Ocampo, is one of the 31 states which, together with Mexico City, compose the Political divisions of Mexico, Federal Entities of Mexico. The stat ...

on 4 February 2002. Mauleón moved with her family to

Tepotzotlán Tepotzotlán () is a city and a municipality in the Mexico, Mexican state of Mexico. It is located northwest of Mexico City about a 45-minute drive along the Mexico City–Querétaro road at marker number 41. In Aztec times, the area was the c ...

State of Mexico The State of Mexico, officially just Mexico, is one of the 32 federal entities of the United Mexican States. Colloquially known as Edomex (from , the abbreviation of , and ), to distinguish it from the name of the whole country, it is the mo ...

and was invited by

Toluca Toluca , officially Toluca de Lerdo , is the States of Mexico, state capital of the State of Mexico as well as the seat of the Municipality of Toluca. Toluca has a population of 910,608 as of the 2020 census. The city forms the core of the Grea ...

for trials at the club's facilities in 2017. Afterwards, she signed for Toluca.

International career

Mauleón was part of the

Mexico women's national under-17 football team The Mexico U-17 women's national football team is the national women's under-17 football team of Mexico and is managed by the Mexican Football Federation. Miguel Gamero was named head coach on January, 2025. Under Mónica Vergara, the team reac ...

. She participated in the

2018 CONCACAF Women's U-17 Championship The 2018 CONCACAF Women's U-17 Championship was the 6th edition of the CONCACAF Women's U-17 Championship, the biennial international youth football championship organized by CONCACAF for the women's under-17 national teams of the North, Central ...

, where the Mexican squad were runners-up. Mauleón was also part of the team that finished as runners-up of the

2018 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup The 2018 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup was the sixth edition of the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup, the biennial international women's youth football championship contested by the under-17 national teams of the member associations of FIFA, since its i ...

in Uruguay, losing the final against

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. Mauleón played all Mexico's six matches, but scored no goals.

Career statistics

Club

International goals

Honours

Club América *

: Clausura 2023 Mexico U-17 *

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: Runners-up:

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: Runners-up:

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* * 2002 births Living people Mexican women's footballers Footballers from Michoacán Liga MX Femenil players Deportivo Toluca F.C. (women) footballers Mexico women's youth international footballers Women's association football players not categorized by position 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 Women's association football midfielders {{Mexico-footy-midfielder-2000s-stub C.F. Pachuca (women) footballers