Number 17 Name Veronica Perez | Role Footballer Current team Canberra United FC Height 1.59 m | |
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Full name Veronica Raquel Perez-Murillo Date of birth (1988-05-18) 18 May 1988 (age 27) Place of birth Hayward, California, United States 2002–2005 PSV Union & Pleasanton Rage 2002–2003 Crystal Springs Uplands High School Profiles | ||
Education University of Washington | ||
Flash Spotlight - Veronica Perez 5/23/13
Verónica Raquel Pérez Murillo (born 18 May 1988) is an American-born Mexican footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for the Mexico women's national team.
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- Flash Spotlight Veronica Perez 52313
- Early life
- University of Washington
- Club
- International
- Coaching career
- References
Pérez is currently a member of the 2017 preseason roster for American club Seattle Reign FC.
Early life
Her parents are Irene Murillo and Bernardo Pérez. She holds dual citizenship in the United States and Mexico. Perez attended Crystal Springs Uplands School where she played one year of soccer, earning first team, All-League honors. During her Freshman, Sophomore and Junior years she played for PSV Union FC and in her junior and senior years, she played for the club team, Pleasonton Rage, and represented the Far West region Olympic Development (ODP) team at the 2005 U.S. Youth Soccer Adidas Cup.
University of Washington
Pérez played for the University of Washington Huskies and was twice named to the All-Pac-10 second team. Pérez left the University of Washington ranked in the all-time top-10 in several categories, including third in shots (194) and games played (83), fourth in game-winning goals (8), tied for sixth in goals (21) and eighth in points (53).
Club
Perez was selected as the 37th pick overall in the Women's Professional Soccer (WPS) draft by the Saint Louis Athletica in 2010. After the WPS folded, Perez began training again with the Mexico women's national football team.
Perez played for the Seattle Sounders Women during the 2009 and 2012 seasons and was a leading scorer.
During the summer of 2012, Perez and her Sounders teammate and fellow University of Washington alum, Kate Deines, played for Stjarnan Women in Iceland's top division. The team won the Icelandic Women's Cup after a 1–0 win over Valur.
On January 11, 2013, Perez joined the Western New York Flash as part of the NWSL Player Allocation for the inaugural season of the National Women's Soccer League.
March 3, 2014, Western New York Flash traded Perez and a 2015 fourth-round draft pick to the Washington Spirit in exchange for a 2014 and 2015 international roster spot. After she did not receive allocation status for the 2016 seasons, her NWSL rights were acquired by Seattle Reign FC in March 2016.
Perez joined Swedish top division club KIF Örebro DFF in January 2016.
International
Perez played for both the Mexico women's national football team and the United States women's national under-23 soccer team during the Summer of 2009. On November 5, 2010, she scored the winning goal for Mexico in the CONCACAF Women's World Cup Qualifying game against the United States. In mid-2011, Pérez represented Mexico in the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup in Germany. In October of that year, she led the Mexico to a third-place finish in the 2011 Pan American Games.
Coaching career
Perez is an assistant coach for her former club, PSV Union FC