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Maribel Dominguez: The Best Soccer Player
Maribel Dominguez was the first Mexican born soccer player to ever play on any team internationally and in the United States. She is an inspiration to all of us latino girls and shows us that we can do anything even though there is racial discrimination between people that we can push through it and we can end up being the best and outshining all of the other people who treated you different. She has gone through many problems to get where she is now, but she has overcome all of the problems and made her one of the best soccer players internationally.
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Maribel dominguez was born on November 18, 1978 in the outskirts of Mexico City, Mexico but later when she was nine years old she moved to central Mexico City. she has always had

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