title: Luz Saucedo
text: # Luz Saucedo
  
  Luz del Rosario Saucedo Soto (born December 14, 1983) is a Mexican former football defender who played for the Mexico women's national football team.
  
  ## Early life
  
  Luz Saucedo was born in Canatlán, Mexico.
  
  ## Playing career
  
  ### Club
  
  **Portland Thorns FC**
  
  In January 2013, Saucedo was included in a list of 55 players from the U.S., Canada, and Mexico national teams that were allocated to the eight teams in the new National Women's Soccer League. She was allocated to Portland Thorns FC but was later removed by the Mexican Football Federation for unknown reasons.
  
  ### International
  
  Saucedo represented Mexico at the FIFA U-19 Women's World Cup in Canada 2002), at the 2004 Summer Olympic Games in Athens, and at two Pan American Games in the Dominican Republic in 2003 and Rio de Janeiro in 2007. She also was a member of the Mexico women's national football team at the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup in Germany.
  
  ## Personal
  
  Saucedo's nickname is "Charito."
  
  