Carolina Conceição Martins Pereira

Carol Carioca
Personal information
Full name Carolina Conceição Martins Pereira
Date of birth (1983-02-18) 18 February 1983
Place of birth Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Playing position Defender
Club information
Current team
 SE União
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2001–2002 Vasco
2002 América-SP
2003–2004 Santos
2005–2008 Botucatu
2008–2009 Jena
2010–2011 Botucatu
2011 CRESSPOM
2012 Chungbuk Sportstoto
2013 Duque de Caxias
2014 Portuguesa
2014 Foz Cataratas 4 (0)
2014 Vitória das Tabocas
2015 Centro Olímpico 3 (0)
2016– SE União
National team‡
Equatorial Guinea 8 (3)

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 26 June 2011 (before the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup)

Carolina Conceição Martins Pereira (born 18 February 1983), commonly known as Carol Carioca, is a Brazilian born naturalised Equatoguinean women's international footballer who plays for SE União as a defender. She is a member of the Equatorial Guinea women's national football team. She was part of the team at the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup.

Football career

Carolina Conceição Martins Pereira first became involved in footballer through her father, who she both attended games with and watched televised matches. She would also play street football with teams of boys, although her mother disapproved. Pereira is Brazilian by birth, but had been invited to Equatorial Guinea to play football in 2007. After staying in the country, she was recruited for the women's national football team. She caught malaria the following year, which she said was one of the low lights of her career along with the results of a career threatening ankle surgery in 2009 which she was told might mean she could no longer play football.[1] As a footballer, she plays under the name "Carol Carioca".[2]

In April 2010, she was one of several high profile players who helped draw the group states of the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup held later that year in Germany.[3] Pereira was included in the Equatorial Guinea squad for the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup, held in Germany.[4] This was the first time the nation had qualified to appear at the Women's World Cup, and Pereira said that doing so was her proudest moment as a footballer so far. The first round match between Equatorial Guinea and Brazil was the first time a Brazilian player naturalized for another nation had played against them in women's football.[1]

When Pereira was a member of the Equatorial Guinea team that won the 2012 African Women's Championship, she was one of 11 out of the 21 players who were naturalized Brazilians playing as Equatoguineans.[5][6]

See also

Notes

  1. 1 2 "Carolina Conceição Martins Pereira Interview on Women's Soccer United". Women's Soccer United. Retrieved 4 November 2016.
  2. ↑ "Carol Carioca". Soccerway. Retrieved 4 November 2016.
  3. ↑ "Falconets to meet England,Mexico and Japan". All Nigeria Soccer. 22 April 2010. Retrieved 4 November 2016.
  4. ↑ "Official squad lists submitted". FIFA. 17 June 2011. Archived from the original on 12 July 2011. Retrieved 17 June 2011.
  5. ↑ Agergaard & Tiesler 2014, p. 90.
  6. ↑ Agergaard & Tiesler 2014, p. 98.

References

  • Agergaard, Sine; Tiesler, Nina Clara (2014). Women, Soccer and Transnational Migration. New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-41582-459-0. 
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