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Women's Soccer

Mexican Women's Football Team

Mexico is ranked 26th in the world on the FIFA Women's World Ranking.

The top ranking teams are

1.USA

2.Germany

3.France

4.England

5.Australlia

So far in the 2015-16 season, the Mexico women's soccer team has done well, winning 6/10 of their games. Although the American women's team won the women's championship last season, the Mexico team hopes to make it in the running, after not making it to playoffs last year.

In soccer there are many rules, but some of the most important are not touching the ball, keeping the ball in bounds, and not kicking or cleating the other players.

Some words that many people may not know are

Box- the area where players go when they break a rule

Flank- "the 10 - 15 yards from the side lines, often where crosses come in from"

breakaway- "counter attack where rapid movement is made into forward space. Counter attacking soccer is a strategy employed by teams when playing away from home"

One example of a cliche in soccer is that the latin teams are better, however USA is ranked first in women's soccer.

Brazilian player Marta is the best Latin American women's football player of all time. She has won player of the year a record five times, and has scored eighty goals with only 74 appearances. She was born of February 19, 1986 in Dois Riachos Brazil, and started playing soccer as a little kid. When her career first began, she played for Brazil in the 2002 World Championship, and then again in the 2003 FIFA Women's Cup. She then went on to Sweden and joined Umea IK. She switched teams again i 2009, and played for the LOS Angeles Sol of the Women's Professional Soccer League. During that contract, she ended up playing with FC Gold Pride and Western New York Flash. At the end of her contract she won MVP honors. Once her American contract was up, she moved back to Sweden and signed with Tyreso FF and won a league title.