Personal information | |||
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Full name | Daphne Melissa Herrera Monge [1] | ||
Date of birth | [1] | 10 October 1996||
Place of birth | San Isidro de El General, Costa Rica [2] | ||
Height | 1.60 m (5 ft 3 in) [1] | ||
Position(s) | Forward | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | Tijuana | ||
Number | 12 | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2012–2016 | AD Moravia | ||
2016 | F.C. Indiana | ||
2017–2018 | Santa Fe | ||
2018–2021 | Reims | 29 | (10) |
2021–2023 | Bordeaux | 23 | (2) |
2023– | Tijuana | 38 | (6) |
International career‡ | |||
2013–2015 | Costa Rica U20 | 3 | (1) |
2014– | Costa Rica | 26 [3] | (13) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 20:02, 31 June 2023 (UTC) |
Daphne Melissa Herrera Monge (born 10 October 1996), known as Melissa Herrera, is a Costa Rican footballer who plays as a forward for Liga MX Femenil side Club Tijuana and the Costa Rica women's national team.
Herrera began her career by playing for AD Moravia in Costa Rica. Herrera then played in United Women's Soccer for FC Indiana for a short time in 2016. From May 2017 to July 2018 she played for Colombian club Independiente Santa Fe.
In July 2018, she moved to France to join Reims.
On 8 June 2021, it was announced that she had reached an agreement to sign for FC Girondins de Bordeaux. [4]
She started playing with Costa Rica U20 in 2013. She played all three of Costa Rica's matches at the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup. [5] On 13 June 2015, during Costa Rica's second match in the tournament against South Korea, she scored the opening goal of the match which ended 2–2. [6] Herrera continued to play for Costa Rica in the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup. [7] She scored in their Group C match against Zambia. [8]
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