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Celia Jimenez Delgado, a rising star for the Alabama soccer team, will play in the 2015 Women's World Cup for Spain. She is one of two Alabama players and many SEC players in this year's World Cup.

Two Crimson Tide soccer players--one a newcomer and the other an alum--are part of international teams playing in the 2015 Women's World Cup.

Alabama's Celia Jimenez Delgado, a transfer into the Tide program from Iowa Western Community College, plays for her native Spain; she will play with Spain in Group E and faces the Netherlands, Canada and China in the group round.

(The Women's World Cup runs from June 6 through July 5. The United States opened competition in its Group D play with a win Monday over Australia.)

Alabama's Merel van Dongen is a 2014 graduate and plays for the Netherlands; her team is is in the same group round as Delgado's. As a midfielder for Alabama, she broke the school record for assists in a season with 10 and was a second-team SEC member.

The only other current SEC player in this year's World Cup is Tennessee's Hannah Wilkinson, who plays for New Zealand; this is her second World Cup appearance.

A number of SEC alumni are sprinkled throughout the rosters of various teams in the World Cup. The most well-known certainly is Abby Wombach of the United States, who played in college for Florida.

Other SEC alumni players (and their countries and college teams) are Rafaelle Souza (Brazil, Ole Miss), Allysha Chapman (Canada, LSU), Adriana Leon (Canada, Florida), Monica Alvarado (Mexico, Mississippi State), Rhian Wilkinson (Canada, Tennessee), Marie-Eve Nault (Canada, Tennessee) and Lina Granados (Columbia, Vanderbilt).