Rocky Rodríguez

About

Raquel “Rocky” Rodríguez Cedeño (born 28 October 1993) is a Costa Rican professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Kansas City Current of the National Women’s Soccer League and the Costa Rica national team.
Rodríguez played college soccer for the Penn State Nittany Lions, where she won the NCAA championship and the Hermann Trophy in 2015. She was drafted second overall by Sky Blue FC in the 2016 NWSL College Draft and named NWSL Rookie of the Year in 2016. In 2020, she was traded to Portland Thorns FC, where she won the NWSL Championship in 2022.

Born in San José, Costa Rica to Grettel Cedeño and Sivianni Rodriguez. Rodriguez, nicknamed Rocky, was raised in Costa Rica and moved to the United States where support for women’s soccer offered more opportunity. Her father, Sivianni Rodríguez, played professionally in Costa Rica with Herediano and the Costa Rica men’s national team.
Rodriquez began playing soccer at age four and played on boys teams and trained with her brother and father as a youth. At age 11, her cousin told her one of the well-known men’s club teams, Deportivo Saprissa, was holding tryouts for a women’s team. After trying out, she…