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Raquel Fernandes
Personal information
Full name Raquel Fernandes dos Santos[1]
Date of birth (1991-03-21) 21 March 1991 (age 33)
Place of birth Contagem, Minas Gerais
Height 1.60 m (5 ft 3 in)[1]
Position(s) Forward
Team information
Current team
Grêmio
Number 30
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
Atlético Mineiro
2010–2015 Ferroviária 12+ (17+)
2015 Botafogo-PB 6 (1)
2016 Ferroviária
2016 Changchun Zhuoyue
2017 Ferroviária 15 (9)
2017 Corinthians 0 (0)
2018 Ferroviária 15 (6)
2018Iranduba (loan) 0 (0)
2019 Sporting Huelva 15 (2)
2019–2021 Sporting CP 38 (33)
2021 Ferroviária 11 (0)
2022 Famalicão 18 (8)
2023– Grêmio
International career
2013– Brazil 52 (8)
Medal record
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 17 Feb 2023
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 17 Feb 2023

Raquel Fernandes dos Santos (born 21 March 1991), commonly known as Raquel, is a Brazilian footballer who plays as a forward for Sporting CP in the Portuguese Campeonato Nacional and the Brazil national team. She participated in the 2015 and 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup.

Club career[edit]

Raquel joined Ferroviária in 2010. In the 2013 Campeonato Paulista de Futebol Feminino, she scored six goals in her team's 19–0 win over Botucatu.[2]

In January 2016 Raquel joined compatriots Darlene de Souza and Rafaelle Souza in transferring to Chinese Women's Super League club Changchun Zhuoyue.[3]

Raquel played in the Spanish Primera División for Sporting de Huelva between 2018 and 2019.[4]

On 26 July 2019, Raquel signed with Sporting CP in Portugal.[5]

International career[edit]

Atlético Mineiro player Raquel represented Brazil's youth team at the inaugural 2008 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup in New Zealand.[6] She was called up to the senior Brazil national team for the first time in August 2013 after showing impressive form for her club Ferroviária.[7]

In February 2015 Raquel was included in an 18-month residency programme intended to prepare Brazil's national team for the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup in Canada and the 2016 Rio Olympics.[8] At the World Cup, Raquel appeared in each of Brazil's four matches, scoring in the 1–0 final group game win over Costa Rica.[9] After Brazil's 1–0 second round defeat by Australia, Raquel remained in Canada as part of the Brazilian selection for the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto.

International goals[edit]


Goal
Date Location Opponent # Score Result Competition
1 2014-09-24 Quito, Ecuador  Ecuador 1.1 5250.02005

4–0

5450.04005

4–0

2014 Copa América Femenina
2 2014-09-26 Sangolquí, Ecuador  Argentina 1.1 5250.02005

6–0

5450.04005

6–0

2014 Copa América Femenina
3 2014-12-10 Brasilia, Brazil  Argentina 1.1 5250.02005

3–0

5450.04005

4–0

Torneio Internacional 2014
4 2015-06-17 Moncton, Canada  Costa Rica 1.1 5250.02005

1–0

5450.04005

1–0

2015 FIFA Women's World Cup
5 2015-07-11 Toronto, Canada  Costa Rica 1.1 5250.02005

1–0

5450.04005

3–0

2015 Pan American Games
6 2015-12-10 Natal, Brazil  Trinidad and Tobago 1.1 5250.02005

10–0

5450.04005

11–0

Torneio Internacional Natal 2015
7 2016-03-04 Santo António, Portugal  Portugal 1.1 5250.02005

3–1

5450.04005

3–1

Algarve Cup 2016
8 2016-07-23 Fortaleza, Brazil  Australia 1.1 5250.02005

2–1

5450.04005

3–1

Friendly game

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "List of Players - Brazil" (PDF). FIFA. 8 June 2015. p. 2. Retrieved 14 June 2015.
  2. ^ "Guerreira Grená Raquel é a artilheira do Campeonato Paulista" (in Portuguese). Guerreiras Grenás. 6 May 2013. Retrieved 26 July 2015.
  3. ^ Barlem, Cíntia (28 January 2016). "Dinheiro também encanta no feminino, e brasileiras se rendem à China" (in Portuguese). Rede Globo. Retrieved 8 December 2019.
  4. ^ "6 jugadoras formarán la columna vertebral del nuevo proyecto sportinguista" (in Spanish). Sporting Club de Huelva.
  5. ^ "Raquel Fernandes é Leoa". www.sporting.pt (in European Portuguese). 26 July 2019.
  6. ^ do Nascimento Pereira, André; Leme de Arruda, Marcelo (30 August 2014). "Seleção Brasileira sub-17 feminina (womens' u-17 Brazilian national team) 2008-2013" (in Portuguese). Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 26 July 2015.
  7. ^ "Após visita do técnico Márcio de Oliveira, Seleção Brasileira convoca mais uma afeana" (in Portuguese). Guerreiras Grenás. 22 August 2013. Retrieved 26 July 2015.
  8. ^ Kennedy, Paul (26 May 2015). "Road to Vancouver: Brazil's Formiga picked for sixth time". Soccer America. Retrieved 11 July 2015.
  9. ^ "Brazil 1 - 0 Costa Rica | Women's World Cup match report". the Guardian. June 18, 2015.

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