Maya Taylor Rosales Alcantara (born July 22, 2000) is a professional

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who plays as a defender or a

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for

PFF Women's League The PFF Women's League (PFFWL) is the top-flight of women's association football in the Philippines. History To follow up with the PFF Women's Cup which was launched in 2014, the PFF Women's League was launched on November 5, 2016, by the Phili ...

club Kaya–Iloilo and the Philippines women's national team.

College career

Saint Mary's College of California

Alcantara played her first four years of collegiate soccer at

Saint Mary's College of California Saint Mary's College of California is a private Catholic college in Moraga, California. Established in 1863, it is affiliated with the Catholic Church and administered by the De La Salle Brothers. The college offers undergraduate and graduate pr ...

Georgetown University

In 2022, Alcantara pursued her graduate studies at

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. She was included in the women's soccer team squad.

International career

Philippines

Alcantara was included in the

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squad for a month-long training camp in Australia. The training camp was part of the national team's preparation for the

2021 Southeast Asian Games ) , caption = , host city = Hanoi, Vietnam , nations participating = 11 , athletes participating = 5,467 , events = 526 in 40 sports , opening ceremony = 12 May 2022 , closing ceremony ...

held in

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, Vietnam. Alcantara made her debut for the Philippines in a 7–0 win against

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in the

2022 AFF Women's Championship The 2022 AFF Women's Championship was the 12th edition of the AFF Women's Championship, an international women's football tournament organised by the ASEAN Football Federation (AFF). The final tournament was originally scheduled to run from 3 to ...

. She made her second appearance for the Philippines in a 4–0 win against

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. Philippines ended up winning the 2022 AFF Women's Championship title.

Career statistics

:''Scores and results list the Philippines' goal tally first.''

Honours

Philippines *

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2022 File:2022 collage V1.png, Clockwise, from top left: Road junction at Yamato-Saidaiji Station several hours after the assassination of Shinzo Abe; Anti-government protest in Sri Lanka in front of the Presidential Secretariat; The global monkeyp ...

References

2000 births Living people Sportspeople from Rancho Cucamonga, California Filipino women's footballers 21st-century Filipino sportswomen Women's association football defenders Women's association football midfielders Philippines women's international footballers American women's soccer players Soccer players from California Saint Mary's Gaels women's soccer players Georgetown Hoyas women's soccer players American sportspeople of Filipino descent SEA Games competitors for the Philippines Competitors at the 2023 SEA Games 21st-century American sportswomen 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup players Kaya F.C.–Iloilo (women) players PFF Women's League players {{US-women-footy-midfielder-stub