Tania Morales

Tania Morales
Personal information
Full name Tania Paola Morales Bazarte
Date of birth (1986-12-22) December 22, 1986
Place of birth Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
Height 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
Playing position Midfielder
Club information
Current team
 Guadalajara
Number 10
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2017– Guadalajara 32 (11)
National team
2002–2006 Mexico U-20 2 (0)
2005– Mexico 8 (2)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 24 November 2017

Tania Paola Morales Bazarte (born 22 December 1986) is a Mexican footballer who plays as a midfielder for Chivas and the Mexico national team.

She is a former member of Mexico's U-20 World Cup team.

In 2017, she was the captain of the C. D. Guadalajara, nicknamed the Chivas and the Rebaño Sagrado, in the initial season of the Liga MX Femenil.

Mexican women's national team

Morales played for Mexico in the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup in 2006.[1]

Playing for the Mexican senior team, on April 2, 2008, Morales scored two goals in a match with Jamaica as Mexico competed unsuccessfully to qualify for the 2008 Olympic Games. At the 2010 CONCACAF Women's Gold Cup, Morales played in all five matches as Mexico succeeded in qualifying for the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup.[2] At the Gold Cup, Morales was a substitute in the match against the United States women's national soccer team on November 5, 2010 which Mexico won 2–1. U.S. Soccer called the match a "stunning upset" and the "biggest result in Mexican women's soccer history."[3] Morales was a starter in a follow up game with the U.S. on June 5, 2011 which the U.S. won 1–0.[4] However, Morales, although a member of the Mexican team, did not play in the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup.

On November 27, 2017, Morales was selected by the National Team to participate in preparations for competing in the Central American and Caribbean Games in 2018.[5] She played for the National Team in one match in Turkey in March 2018.[6]

Club

Morales was the captain of the Guadalajara Chivas team in the inaugural season of the Liga MX Femenil. She scored five goals and tallied two assists during the 14 match season.[7] On November 4, 2017, Morales scored the first and only Gol Olimpíco, (a goal scored directly by a corner kick with no other player touching the ball) in the league.[8]

The Chivas won the league championship on November 24, 2017 after defeating C.F. Pachuca (Women) in the second match of a two-match playoff. Morales had an assist in the victory. The matches drew record-setting crowds of 28,955 and 32,466 spectators.[9]

In the 2018 clausura for third-place Chivas, Morales scored five goals.

Honors

Liga MX Femenil Team of The Season: Apertura 2017

References

  1. ↑ "La capitana rojiblanca que tambien es superheroe," https://www.vavel.com/mx/futbol-mexicano/liga-mx/chivas/845877-la-capitana-que-tambien-es-super-heroina.html, accessed 7 Jan 2018
  2. ↑ "CONCACAF Mexico 2010: Women's World Cup Qualifying Recap", http://www.concacaf.com/article/world-cup-qualifying-women-2010-technical-report, pp. 11, 15-19, accessed 25 Jan 2018
  3. ↑ "U.S. Soccer," https://www.ussoccer.com/stories/2014/03/17/13/31/usa-falls-in-mexico, accessed 6 Jan 2018; "Seleccion Femenil, Sabe de Tequila" (January 4, 2011), Reforma, http://www.reforma.com/aplicacioneslibre/articulo/default.aspx?id=8045&md5=e9ebb4a77df393a3f7a4085fb5dc1ad6&ta=0dfdbac11765226904c16cb9ad1b2efe&po=1, accessed 25 Jan 2018
  4. ↑ "U.S. Soccer," https://www.ussoccer.com/stories/2014/03/17/13/06/cheney-strike-in-stoppage-time-lifts-us-women, accessed 6 Jan 2018
  5. ↑ Norma Palafox y Miriam Garcia, llamadas al Tri Sub 20", Liga Mx Femenil, https://mexico.as.com/mexico/2017/11/28/futbol/1511826884_854455.html, accessed 8 Jan 2018
  6. ↑ https://miseleccion.mx/la-snm-femenil-cierra-fase-grupos-ante-polonia-la-copa-turquia-2018/, accessed 10 Mar 2018
  7. ↑ "Tania Morales", http://www.ligafemenil.mx/cancha/jugador/124821/tania-paola-morales-bazarte,. accessed 7 Jan 2018
  8. ↑ "Gol Olimpíco", http://www.marca.com/claro-mx/futbol/futbol-femenil/2017/11/05/59fe612be5fdead4438b4572.html, accessed 8 Jan 2018
  9. ↑ "Pachuca tomo ventaja en el Gran Final", http://www.ligafemenil.mx/cancha/detallenoticia/23008; "El Club Guadalajara es campeon de las Liga MX Femenil," http://www.ligafemenil.mx/cancha/detallenoticia/23054/el-club-guadalajara-es-campeon-de-la-liga-mx-femenil, accessed 7 Jan 2018
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