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She is known internationally as Marigol for her record of 46 goals scored in 49 matches for the Mexico women's national team. As a forward for the Atlanta Beat, she was a leading scorer in the league during its final year of operation. In , she made international headlines when she signed for a men's team in Mexico but was denied by FIFA.

She has also scored the most goals 82 out of any single Mexico national player, including among those in the men's squad. In , she was ranked in FIFA's top 25 women players in the world. Despite the perception of sport by her father, she played when young football with her three brothers, though her father did not approve: "My father was very old-fashioned, and he didn't like soccer.

He didn't even like that my brothers played soccer. When he went to work, I would sneak out of the house to go and practice in the street. They called her Mario and only found out that she was a girl when her picture appeared in the newspaper after she made it on the sub-national women's team. She was the first Mexico-born player to sign with the league since its inception in She scored seven goals during the season and was a leading scorer in the league.

Of her experience, she said, "It's very special for me to be in the top scoring position in this league. It's the best thing that has happened to me in my career, right up there with scoring in the Women's World Cup. I knew that the decision could go either way, but were expecting a yes.

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The hard thing is going to be equaling the physical force of the men, but the technique, the desire, the willpower, those are things that I already have. FIFA ruled against mixed-sex football teams stating, "There must be a clear separation between men's and women's football. But at least I would have tried.