Marbella Ibarra (1972 – 2018) was a Mexican advocate for Women's association football who was trained as a lawyer.

She played a bit of football and basketball for fun but as a coach she formed an amateur women's team named Isamar FC.

[2] She was enthusiastic about football and she interceded with Xolos of Tijuana to persuade them create a women's team[3] in 2014.

[4] She was a scout for talent[2] and she devoted time to trying to create financial support for promising women footballers so that they trial with different teams.

A bound and tortured body is not unique and it was thought that the death was intended to send some kind of message.