Anika Rodríguez
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File:NC Courage vs Tigres (Jul 2025) 048.jpg Rodríguez with Tigres UANL in 2025 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Anika Elia Rodríguez[1] | ||
| Date of birth | 4 January 1997 | ||
| Place of birth | Torrance, California, U.S. | ||
| Height | 1.57 m (5 ft 2 in) | ||
| Position | Right back | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | UANL | ||
| Number | 22 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| –2015 | SoCal Blues | ||
| College career | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2016–2019 | UCLA Bruins | 77 | (15) |
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2019 | LA Galaxy OC | ||
| 2020 | Portland Thorns | 0 | (0) |
| 2020–2022 | PSV | 33 | (5) |
| 2022–2025 | UANL | 80 | (3) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2013 | United States U-17 | (1) | |
| 2018 | United States U-23 | ||
| 2021– | Mexico | 18 | (0) |
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* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 2 September 2021 ‡ National team caps and goals as of 20 February 2025 | |||
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Anika Elia Rodríguez (born 4 January 1997) is a professional footballer who plays as a left-back for Liga MX Femenil club Tigres UANL. Born and raised in the United States to Mexican parents, she plays for the Mexico national team.
Early life
[edit | edit source]Rodríguez was born in Torrance, California. She attended Torrance High School and played youth soccer for Southern California Blues Soccer Club.[1]
Club career
[edit | edit source]Portland Thorns
[edit | edit source]In June 2020, Rodríguez signed a short-term contract with National Women's Soccer League side Portland Thorns FC ahead of the NWSL Challenge Cup.[2]
PSV
[edit | edit source]Also in June 2020, Rodríguez signed a one-year contract with Eredivisie Vrouwen side PSV.[3] In April 2021, she signed a one-year extension.[4]
Tigres UANL
[edit | edit source]Rodriguez was signed by Liga MX Femenil side Tigres UANL on 18 June 2022.[5]
International career
[edit | edit source]On 23 October 2021, Rodríguez made her debut for the Mexico national team in a 6–1 victory over Argentina at Estadio Gregorio "Tepa" Gómez.[6]
Rodríguez was selected to represent Mexico at the 2023 Pan American Games held in Santiago, Chile, where the Mexican squad went undefeated to won the gold medal for the first time in their history at the Pan American Games, defeating Chile 1–0.[7][8]
Personal life
[edit | edit source]Rodríguez's younger sister, Karina Rodríguez, also plays for the Mexico women's national football team.
Honours
[edit | edit source]Tigres UANL
- CONCACAF W Champions Cup runner-up: 2024–25[9]
References
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External links
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- 1997 births
- Living people
- Mexican women's footballers
- Women's association football forwards
- PSV (women) players
- Portland Thorns FC players
- Eredivisie (women) players
- Mexico women's international footballers
- Mexican expatriate women's footballers
- Mexican expatriate sportspeople in the Netherlands
- Expatriate women's footballers in the Netherlands
- Soccer players from Torrance, California
- American women's soccer players
- UCLA Bruins women's soccer players
- American expatriate women's soccer players
- American expatriate sportspeople in the Netherlands
- American people of Mexican descent
- Sportspeople of Mexican descent
- Footballers at the 2023 Pan American Games
- Medalists at the 2023 Pan American Games
- Pan American Games gold medalists in football
- Pan American Games gold medalists for Mexico
- Pan American Games footballers for Mexico
- Competitors at the 2023 Central American and Caribbean Games
- Central American and Caribbean Games medalists in football
- Central American and Caribbean Games gold medalists for Mexico
- Tigres UANL (women) footballers
- Liga MX Femenil players
- 21st-century American sportswomen
- 21st-century Mexican sportswomen
- Mexican women's football biography stubs
- Mexican football forward, 1990s birth stubs
- American women's soccer forward stubs