Josephine Lara Cotto (born 15 January 2000) is a Puerto Rican footballer who plays as a midfielder for the Puerto Rico women's national team.
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Josephine Lara Cotto | ||
| Date of birth | 15 January 2000 | ||
| Place of birth | Menlo Park, California, U.S. | ||
| Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | DUSC | ||
| College career | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2018–2021 | Penn Quakers | 7 | (0) |
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2023 | FA Euro | 12 | |
| 2024 | DUSC | ||
| International career‡ | |||
| 2015 | Puerto Rico U-17 | 2 | (1) |
| 2015 | Puerto Rico U-20 | 3 | (0) |
| 2021– | Puerto Rico | 15 | (1) |
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of March 2022 | |||
Early life and college
editCotto attended Menlo-Atherton High School with whom she won the Central Coast Section Division I championship in 2016. She scored the winning goal in the final match.[1]
In the 2017 Northern California State Cup Finals, Cotto tore her anterior crucial ligament for the first time. Two games into her freshman year at University of Pennsylvania, she tore her ACL for the second time during a team practice which sidelined her for over a year.[2]
International career
editIn the fall of 2015, Cotto represented both the Puerto Rico U-17 team and Puerto Rico U-20 team in their respective Caribbean Zone qualifiers for the 2016 CONCACAF Women's U-17 Championship and 2015 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship.[3][4][5]
Cotto made her senior debut for the Puerto Rican women's national football team in June 2021 during a 5–1 friendly loss to Uruguay.[6] On 21 October 2021, Cotto scored her first goal for Puerto Rico, opening the scoring in a 6–1 friendly victory over Guyana.[7]
In June 2023, Cotto represented Puerto Rico in the 24th Central American and Caribbean Games in El Salvador. She started all three games and played every minute, tallying in assist against El Salvador.
References
edit- ^ Mazeika, Vytas (8 March 2016). "CCS girls soccer: Historic comeback turns M-A into champions for first time". The Mercury News. Retrieved 2 November 2021.
- ^ Simoes, Mariana (13 November 2019). "After lengthy recovery, Jojo Cotto's comeback to Penn women's soccer is complete". The Daily Pennsylvanian. Retrieved 2 November 2021.
- ^ Jusino, Edwin (13 October 2015). "Todo listo para jugarse la clasificación la Sub20 femenina". Fútbol Boricua (in Spanish). Retrieved 2 November 2021.
- ^ Jusino, Edwin (18 November 2015). "Puerto Rico U17 se despide ganando en las clasificatorias de la CFU". Fútbol Boricua (in Spanish). Retrieved 2 November 2021.
- ^ "JOJO COTTO". pennathletics.com. Retrieved 2 November 2021.
- ^ Andino, Jessica Rosa (12 June 2021). "URUGUAY DERROTA, 5-1, A PUERTO RICO EN EL ESTADIO CENTENARIO". Federación Puertorriqueña de Fútbol (in Spanish). Retrieved 2 November 2021.
- ^ "Lady Jags go down 1-6 to Puerto Rico in warm-up encounter". Stabroek News. 21 October 2021. Retrieved 2 November 2021.
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