Alexa Diaz

Alexa Diaz
Personal information
Full name Alexa Nicole Diaz
Date of birth (1993-09-19) 19 September 1993
Place of birth Seattle, Washington, U.S.
College career
Years Team Apps (Gls)
–2014 Seattle Pacific Falcons
National team‡
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2013– Philippines
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 24 July 2016 (before the 2016 AFF Women's Championship)

Alexa Diaz is a Filipino association footballer who has played for the Philippines women's national football team.

Early life

Diaz was born on 19 September 1993[1] to a Filipino father and a Panamanian mother[2] in Seattle, U.S.[3] She is a native of the town of Burien, Washington and attended John F. Kennedy Catholic High School.[4]

Career

Diaz played for the Seattle Pacific Falcons women's soccer team during her college years as a defender. [5]

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[4] after participating in a tryout held in March 2012[2] by then-national team head coach Ernest Nierras in Corona, California.[4] However she was not able to participate due to the late arrival of her proof of citizenship.[2]

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.[2]

Diaz also took part in the Philippines' campaign in the 2018 AFC Women's Asian Cup in Jordan.[6]

Coaching

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.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Philippines - AFC Women's Asian Cup Jordan 2018 - Playing Squad". AFC Women's Asian Cup Jordan 2018 Press Kit. Asian Football Confederation. p. 9. |access-date= requires |url= (help)
  2. 1 2 3 4 Bird, Liviu (2013). "Kickin' It in Asia". SPU Response. Seattle Pacific University. Retrieved 19 April 2018.
  3. 1 2 "Alexa Diaz". Pacific Northwest Soccer Club. Retrieved 19 April 2018.
  4. 1 2 3 Moschetti, Mark (19 April 2013). "SPU's Diaz Hoping to Make World Cup Soccer Team". Great Northwest Athletic Conference. Retrieved 19 April 2018.
  5. ↑ "Alexa Diaz - 2014 Women's Soccer Roster". Seattle Pacific University. Retrieved 19 April 2018.
  6. ↑ "Football: Philippines shocks host Jordan to open AFC Women's Asian Cup". ABS-CBN. 7 April 2018. Retrieved 19 April 2018.
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