Maribel Dominguez: The Best Soccer Player

Maribel Dominguez was the first Mexican born soccer player to ever play on any team internationally and in the United States. She is an inspiration to all of us latino girls and shows us that we can do anything even though there is racial discrimination between people that we can push through it and we can end up being the best and outshining all of the other people who treated you different. She has gone through many problems to get where she is now, but she has overcome all of the problems and made her one of the best soccer players internationally.
Early Life
Maribel dominguez was born on November 18, 1978 in the outskirts of Mexico City, Mexico but later when she was nine years old she moved to central Mexico City. she has always had
a love for soccer, but her father disliked soccer so she was never able to play at her house. Since she was young she liked her hair short and since she was flat-chested she looked like a normal 9 year old boy and so she was able to play with the other boys in the city. She played with them all of the time when she lived there and when she started to hit puberty she wore loose shirts and no one noticed and she kept on playing with them. “They only found out I wasn't a boy when they saw my picture in the paper because I'd got into the sub-national women's team. They went to my house and asked my mother if I was really a girl. They were pretty shocked." (The Guardian). After She finished High School she had a dream to play on the Men’s National soccer team but it was later diminished because she was a woman and “Soccer is a man’s game” (The Guardian)