Cecilia Santiago

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Cecilia Santiago
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Santiago in 2016
Personal information
Full name Aurora Cecilia Santiago Cisneros [1]
Date of birth (1994-10-19) 19 October 1994 (age 29)
Place of birth La Paz, State of Mexico, Mexico
Height 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Team information
Current team
 UANL
Number 1
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2010–2013 Santos Laguna
2013 Boston Breakers 3 (0)
2014 Kansas City 0 (0)
2015 Apollon Limassol
2016 Þór Akureyri 18 (0)
2017–2019 América 39 (0)
2019–2021 PSV 5 (0)
2021– UANL 19 (0)
International career‡
2008–2010 Mexico U17
2008–2014 Mexico U20
2010– Mexico 66 [2] (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 9 April 2018
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 09:20, 18 June 2015 (UTC)

Aurora Cecilia Santiago Cisneros (born 19 October 1994) is a Mexican professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Tigres UANL (women) and the Mexico women's national team. By playing in the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup in Germany at the age of 16 years and 251 days, [3] she became the youngest-ever goalkeeper to appear in a World Cup. [4]

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Playing career

Club

Santiago was born in Los Reyes la Paz, part of the Greater Mexico City area. She started playing for the women's team of Club Santos Laguna in the Super Liga Femenil de Fútbol in October 2010. [5] In 2013, she signed for the Boston Breakers in the National Women's Soccer League. In February 2016, Santiago signed for Icelandic top division team Þór Akureyri. [6]

International

Having played twice in the group stages of the 2010 CONCACAF Women's Gold Cup, [7] which acted as the qualifying state for the 2011 World Cup for CONCACAF nations, Santiago made her World Cup debut on 27 June 2011 at the age of 16 as Mexico played England at the Volkswagen Arena in Wolfsburg, becoming the youngest goalkeeper ever to appear in a men's or women's international tournament. [8] The game ended in a 1–1 draw, Mexico's first ever point at a World Cup.

The year before she had been the youngest player at the July 2010 U20 Women's World Cup (also played in Germany), when she played for Mexico women's national under-20 football team at the age of 15 years and nine months. [9] Expected to go out in the first stage, the team reached the quarter finals, with Santiago's performances considered a vital factor in the team's surprising success in getting through the group stage. [9] Earlier in the year, she had been part of the Mexico U17 team that reached the final of the CONCACAF U17 Championships in March, losing 1–0 to Canada. [10]

Two years previously, she had been the youngest player at the 2008 U20 World Cup in Chile, featuring in the Mexico squad less than two months after her fourteenth birthday. [11]

Personal life

Santiago was originally a defender but switched at the age of six despite opposition from her dad. She is the only player to be part of a squad for four FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup, and has played in three of those tournaments 2010, 2012, and 2014. [12]

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References

  1. ↑ "FIFA Women's World Cup Germany 2011 – List of Players: Mexico" (PDF). FIFA . 28 July 2014. p. 11. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 November 2019. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
  2. ↑ "Profile". FIFA.com. Archived from the original on 1 July 2011. Retrieved 18 June 2015.
  3. ↑ Women's World Cup: USA Ready for N.Korea; Record TV Audience for Opener World Football Insider, 28 June 2011
  4. ↑ Las Aztecas can achieve something special after upsetting England Archived 2012-09-28 at the Wayback Machine UTV, 28 June 2011
  5. ↑ Player Register Archived 2012-03-28 at the Wayback Machine Super Liga Femenil de Fútbol
  6. ↑ "¡La Liga Islandesa Femenina tendrá invasión de mexicanas! | Talacheros FC". Archived from the original on 9 March 2016. Retrieved 8 March 2016.
  7. ↑ Women's World Cup Qualifying 2010 Archived 2010-11-19 at the Wayback Machine CONCACAF
  8. ↑ Women's World Cup: Mexico 1–1 England BBC Sport, 27 June 2011
  9. 1 2 Mexico exit with heads held high FIFA, 26 July 2010
  10. ↑ Early goal propels Canada to Women's U-17 crown Archived 2011-06-10 at the Wayback Machine 20 March 2010
  11. ↑ On their marks for Chile 2008 [ dead link ] FIFA, 16 November 2008
  12. ↑ Santiago, Mexico's teenage veteran 8 August 2014
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