Alexa Diaz
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Alexa Nicole Diaz | ||
| Date of birth | 19 September 1993 | ||
| Place of birth | Seattle, Washington, U.S. | ||
| Height | 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)[1] | ||
| Position | Defender[1] | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Kennedy Catholic Lancers | |||
| College career | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2011–2014 | Seattle Pacific Falcons | ||
| International career‡ | |||
| 2013– | Philippines | ||
| ‡ National team caps and goals as of 24 July 2016 (before the 2016 AFF Women's Championship) | |||
Alexa Nicole Diaz (born 19 September 1993) is a professional footballer who plays as a defender. Born in the United States, she represented the Philippines women's national team.
Early life
[edit | edit source]Diaz was born on 19 September 1993[2] to a Filipino father and a Panamanian mother[3] in Seattle, U.S.[4] She is a native of the town of Burien, Washington and attended John F. Kennedy Catholic High School.[5]
Career
[edit | edit source]Diaz played for the Seattle Pacific Falcons women's soccer team during her college years as a defender. [6]
Diaz was selected to be part of the Philippines women's national team that will later play in the 2014 AFC Women's Asian Cup qualifiers in Bangladesh in 2013[5] after participating in a tryout held in March 2012[3] by then-national team head coach Ernest Nierras in Corona, California.[5] However she was not able to participate due to the late arrival of her proof of citizenship.[3]
She later made her debut later that year, at the 2013 Southeast Asian Games playing in both group stage match against hosts, Myanmar and defending champions, Vietnam.[3]
Diaz also took part in the Philippines' campaign in the 2018 AFC Women's Asian Cup in Jordan.[7]
Coaching
[edit | edit source]She is part of the coaching staff of the Pacific Northwest Soccer Club and is a holder of at least a USSF National E License.[4]
References
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- 1993 births
- Living people
- Filipino women's footballers
- 21st-century Filipino sportswomen
- Women's association football defenders
- Philippines women's international footballers
- Filipino people of Panamanian descent
- Soccer players from Seattle
- People from Burien, Washington
- Soccer players from King County, Washington
- American women's soccer players
- Seattle Pacific Falcons athletes
- American people of Filipino descent
- Sportspeople of Filipino descent
- American people of Panamanian descent
- Sportspeople of Panamanian descent
- 21st-century American sportswomen
- Southeast Asian women's football biography stubs
- Filipino football biography stubs
- American women's soccer defender stubs