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Elizabeth Gómez

Mexican-American soccer player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 27, 2025
Entity authorityQ23416771 ↗
Source-derived summary

Elizabeth Patricia 'Lisa' Gómez Randall (born 21 September 1981) is an American-born Mexican former footballer who played as a defender for the Mexico women's national football team at the 2004 Summer Olympics. At the collegiate level, she played for the University of Miami in the United States.

See also

Mexico at the 2004 Summer Olympics

References

External links

Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Elizabeth Gómez". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2020-04-18.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Elizabeth Gómez” as mexican-American soccer player. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Elizabeth, Gómez and Mexican-American.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1981, 2004, 2020—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1981-09-21. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Elizabeth, Gómez and Mexican-American providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Elizabeth Gómez”, the useful work is to connect “mexican-American soccer player” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 27, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q23416771. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1981, 2004 and 2020.

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This entry incorporates text from “Elizabeth Gómez” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.