Belén Potassa

{{short description|Argentine footballer (born 1988)}}

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{{Infobox football biography

| name = Belén Potassa

| image = Belén Potassa.png

| fullname = María Belén Potassa

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1988|12|12}}

| birth_place = Cañada Rosquín, Santa Fe, Argentina

| height = 1.69 m

| currentclub = Peluquería Mixta Friol

| clubnumber =

| position = Forward

| years1 = 2004–2007

| clubs1 = Rosario Central

| years2 = 2007

| clubs2 = San Lorenzo

| years3 = 2007–2010

| clubs3 = Santiago Morning

| years4 = 2010–2014

| clubs4 = Boca Juniors

| years5 = 2014–2019

| clubs5 = UAI Urquiza

| years6 = 2019–2020

| clubs6 = Fundación Albacete

| caps6 = 4

| goals6 = 3

| years7 = 2020-2021

| clubs7 = Cordoba CF

| caps7 = 15

| goals7 = 3

| years8 = 2021-2022

| clubs8 = Real Unión de Tenerife

| caps8 = 26

| goals8 = 8

| years9 = 2022

| clubs9 = Monte

| caps9 =

| goals9 =

| years10 = 2023-2024

| clubs10 = FF La Solana

| caps10 = 40

| goals10 = 3

| years11 = 2024-

| clubs11 = Peluquería Mixta Friol

| caps11 =

| goals11 =

| nationalyears1 = 2006–2008

| nationalteam1 = Argentina U-20

| nationalcaps1 = 10+

| nationalgoals1 = 6

| nationalyears2 = 2006–2019

| nationalteam2 = Argentina

| nationalcaps2 = 17

| nationalgoals2 = 5

| pcupdate = 28 September 2019

| ntupdate = 00:40, 14 June 2019 (UTC)

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María Belén Potassa (born 12 December 1988), known as Belén Potassa, is an Argentine footballer who plays as a forward for Peluquería Mixta Friol.{{Cite web|url=https://www.albacetebalompie.es/noticia/belen-cree|title=Belén cree|language=es|publisher=Albacete Balompié|date=12 June 2019|accessdate=14 June 2019}} She has been a member of the Argentina women's national team.{{cite web |url=http://www.uaiurquiza.com/profiles/blogs/vengo-a-aportar-goles-y-sacrificio |title="Vengo a aportar goles y sacrificio" |language=Spanish |work=UAI Urquiza |date=25 July 2014 |first=Ismael |last=Agramonte |accessdate=18 December 2016 |archive-date=20 December 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220175827/http://www.uaiurquiza.com/profiles/blogs/vengo-a-aportar-goles-y-sacrificio |url-status=dead }}

She previously played for the women's teams of Rosario Central, San Lorenzo, Santiago Morning (in Chile) and Boca Juniors before joining UAI Urquiza in July 2014.

International career

Potassa represented Argentina at the 2006 South American U-20 Women's Championship, 2006 FIFA U-20 Women's World Championship and the 2008 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup.{{FIFA player|251043}} At senior level, she played the 2006 South American Women's Football Championship, three Pan American Games editions (2007, 2011 and 2015),{{refn|group=note|2015 Pan American Games matches are not recognised by FIFA.{{cite book|url=https://static.fifa.com/live-scores/teams/country=arg/women/matches/index.html#year2015|title=Live Scores - Argentina - Women's - Matches (2015)|publisher=FIFA-.com|access-date=2019-03-09|archive-date=2019-12-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191208163340/https://static.fifa.com/live-scores/teams/country=arg/women/matches/index.html#year2015|url-status=dead}}}} the 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup, the 2008 Summer Olympics and the 2018 Copa América Femenina.

=International goals=

Scores and results list Argentina's goal tally first

class="wikitable"
No.DateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition
style="text-align:center;"| 110 November 2006rowspan=4|Estadio José María Minella, Mar del Plata, Argentina{{fbw|URU}}style="text-align:center;"| 2–1style="text-align:center;"| 2–1rowspan=4|2006 South American Women's Football Championship
style="text-align:center;"| 2rowspan=2|12 November 2006rowspan=2|{{fbw|CHI}}style="text-align:center;"| 1–0rowspan=2 style="text-align:center;"| 8–0
style="text-align:center;"| 3style="text-align:center;"| 3–0
style="text-align:center;"| 426 November 2006{{fbw|BRA}}style="text-align:center;"| 2–0style="text-align:center;"| 2–0
style="text-align:center;"| 511 July 2015Hamilton Pan Am Soccer Stadium, Hamilton, Canada{{fbw|TTO}}style="text-align:center;"| 2–1style="text-align:center;"| 2–22015 Pan American Games

Personal life

Potassa also holds Spanish citizenship, her full name in that document being María Belén Potassa Ríos{{Family name footnote|Potassa|Ríos|lang=Spanish}}.{{Cite web|url=https://resultados.rfef.es/pnfg/NPcd/NFG_EstadisticasJugador?cod_primaria=3000328&jugador=21760778&codacta=70658149&nueva_ventana=0|website=Royal Spanish Football Federation|title=Estadística de Jugador}}

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