Greta Alejandra Espinoza Casas (born 5 June 1995) is a Mexican

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby lea ...

who plays as a defender for

Liga MX Femenil Liga MX Femenil, also known as Liga BBVA MX Femenil for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league and the highest level of women's football in Mexico. Supervised by the Mexican Football Federation, Federación Mexicana d ...

club

Tigres UANL Club Tigres de la Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, abbreviated as Tigres UANL and simply known as Tigres or internationally as Tigres de México, is a Mexican professional Association football, football club based in the Monterrey metropo ...

and the Mexico national team.

International career

Espinoza was selected to represent Mexico at the

2023 Pan American Games The 2023 Pan American Games (), officially the XIX Pan American Games () and commonly known as Santiago 2023, were an international multi-sport event governed by the Panam Sports Organization, held in Santiago, Chile from 20 October to 5 Novem ...

held in

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, where the Mexican squad went undefeated to win the gold medal for the first time in their history at the Pan American Games, defeating

1–0.

Honors and awards

UANL *

: Clausura 2018, Clausura 2019, Guard1anes 2020, Guard1anes 2021, Apertura 2022, Apertura 2023 * Campeón de Campeones: 2021,

2023 Catastrophic natural disasters in 2023 included the Lists of 21st-century earthquakes, 5th-deadliest earthquake of the 21st century 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquakes, striking Turkey and Syria, leaving up to 62,000 people dead; Cyclone Freddy ...

Mexico *

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, gold medal

International goals

References

External links

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Fox Sports player profile

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Mexican Football Federation The Mexican Football Federation (), abbreviated as FMF is the official governing body of football in Mexico. It administers the men's and women's national teams with all its youth teams, the national teams of futsal and beach soccer, Liga MX wit ...

1995 births Living people Footballers from Tijuana Mexican women's footballers Arizona Western College alumni Oregon State Beavers women's soccer players Levante UD Femenino players Liga F players Mexico women's international footballers 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup players Footballers at the 2015 Pan American Games Footballers at the 2023 Pan American Games Mexican expatriate women's footballers Mexican expatriate sportspeople in the United States Expatriate women's soccer players in the United States Mexican expatriate sportspeople in Spain Expatriate women's footballers in Spain Women's association football defenders Liga MX Femenil players Tigres UANL (women) footballers Pan American Games gold medalists for Mexico Pan American Games bronze medalists for Mexico Pan American Games footballers for Mexico Medalists at the 2015 Pan American Games Medalists at the 2023 Pan American Games Pan American Games gold medalists in football Pan American Games bronze medalists in football Mexico women's youth international footballers 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 21st-century Mexican sportswomen {{Mexico-women-footy-bio-stub