Annia Mejía
Appearance
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Personal information | |||
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Full name | Annia Stephany Mejía Alcaraz[1] | ||
Date of birth | [1] | 12 March 1996||
Place of birth | Bloomington, California, United States[2] | ||
Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)[3] | ||
Position(s) | Centre-back[2] | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | Juárez | ||
Number | 2 | ||
College career | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2014–2016 | California Golden Bears | 57 | (2) |
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2018–2019 | Fundación Albacete | 0 | (0) |
2019 | → Sporting Gijón (loan) | 9 | (0) |
2019–2021 | Monterrey | 50 | (5) |
2021–2022 | Tijuana | 36 | (1) |
2022–2023 | Pachuca | 33 | (0) |
2023– | Juárez | 11 | (0) |
International career‡ | |||
2015 | United States U-20 | ||
2015–2016 | Mexico U-20 | 8 | (0) |
2016–[1] | Mexico | 3 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 5 August 2023 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 4 February 2017 |
Annia Stephany Mejía Alcaraz (born March 12, 1996) is a professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Liga MX Femenil side FC Juárez. Born and raised in the United States to a Mexican mother and a Honduran father, Mejia represents the Mexico women's national team at the international level.
International career
[edit]Mejía's father attempted her to represent his homeland Honduras, but contacts with the local federation and one of its women's national team players were unsuccessful.[4]
Mejía represented her mother's homeland Mexico at the 2015 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship and the 2016 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup. She made her senior debut on 26 January 2016.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d "Las defensas de la SNM Femenil que participan en el Preolímpico de la CONCACAF" (in Spanish). MiSeleccion.mx. Retrieved 21 October 2017.
- ^ a b "Annia Mejía" (in Spanish). LIGA MX Femenil.
- ^ "Annia Mejia - 2016 W Soccer Roster". CalBears.com. Retrieved 28 October 2017.
- ^ Bu, Allan (15 December 2015). "Annia, la futbolista mexicana que pudo jugar con Honduras". Retrieved 28 October 2017.
External links
[edit]- Annia Mejía – FIFA competition record (archived)
- Annia Mejía at Soccerway
- Annia Mejía at La Preferente (in Spanish)
- Annia Stephany Mejía at Liga MX Femenil (archive) (in Spanish)
Categories:
- 1996 births
- Living people
- Mexican women's footballers
- Women's association football central defenders
- Mexico women's international footballers
- Mexican people of Honduran descent
- Fundación Albacete players
- Sporting de Gijón (women) players
- Liga MX Femenil players
- C.F. Monterrey (women) players
- Club Tijuana (women) footballers
- C.F. Pachuca (women) footballers
- FC Juárez (women) players
- Mexican expatriate women's footballers
- Mexican expatriate sportspeople in Spain
- Expatriate women's footballers in Spain
- American women's soccer players
- Soccer players from Los Angeles
- Soccer players from San Bernardino County, California
- American sportspeople of Mexican descent
- American people of Honduran descent
- California Golden Bears women's soccer players
- American expatriate women's soccer players
- American expatriate sportspeople in Spain
- 21st-century American sportswomen
- Mexican women's football biography stubs