Marianela Szymanowski

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Marianela Szymanowski
Personal information
Date of birth (1990-07-31) 31 July 1990 (age 34)
Place of birth Buenos Aires, Argentina
Height 1.62 m (5 ft 4 in)
Position(s) Forward
Team information
Current team
 Villarreal
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2008–2011 Atlético Madrid 38 (7)
2011–2016 Rayo Vallecano 50 (7)
2016–2018 Valencia 54 (10)
2018–2020 Real Betis 44 (4)
2020–2022 Espanyol 31 (7)
2022–2023 Rayo Vallecano 22 (5)
2023–2024 Pomigliano 18 (2)
2024–2025 Standard Liège 1 (0)
2025– Villarreal
International career‡
2014– Argentina 6 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 16 September 2023
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 23 February 2023

Marianela Szymanowski (born 31 July 1990) is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a forward for Liga F club Villarreal and the Argentina national team.

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Playing career

Szymanowski began playing football with the small Madrid suburban club Rayo Ciudad Alcobendas Club de Futbol from age 11 to 18. She then moved to Atlético Madrid, where she debuted in Primera División and in the Champions League with the club. [1] She previously played for Atlético Madrid. [2] [3]

After two years, Szymanowski left Atlético and signed with Rayo Vallecano, where she would play during five seasons before signing with Valencia.

In 2011, she suffered an injury that forced her to provisionally retire until 2013. [4]

On 14 January 2025, Szymanowski joined Villarreal. [5]

International career

Szymanowski played for Argentina in the 2014 Copa América Femenina. [6]

Personal life

Szymanowski's brother Alexander played in La Liga for Leganés. Her paternal grandfather was a Pole born in 1923 in what is now Ukraine, who moved to Buenos Aires, Argentina at the age of five with his family, and later married with a Belarusian woman. [7] Her maternal grandfather's parents were Spanish and her maternal grandmother's parents were Italian. [8] She also holds Spanish citizenship, her full name in that document being Marianela Szymanowski Alonso [a] .

References

Notes

  1. ↑ In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Szymanowskiand the second or maternal family name is Alonso.

    Citations

    1. ↑ Profile [ dead link ] in UEFA.com
    2. ↑ "Las rojiblancas, listas para la Superliga". 12 August 2009.
    3. ↑ "Marianela Szymaniowski: "En el Atleti tenemos muchas ganas de conseguir algo grande" - MARCA.com". www.marca.com.
    4. ↑ "M. Szymanowski: Nadie me iba a quitar la ilusión".
    5. ↑ "Marianela Szymanowski, más pólvora para el ataque amarillo".
    6. ↑ "Copa América Femenina: Colombia y Argentina, iguales (0–0) – CONMEBOL". www.conmebol.com. 24 September 2014.
    7. ↑ Piechota, Dominik (13 February 2016). "Polonus, o którym będzie głośno! "Jest błyskawicą, obserwują go"". Przegląd Sportowy (in Polish).
    8. ↑ ""En Argentina me llamaban marimacho por jugar al fútbol"".


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