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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
Women's football
Representing  Brazil
Pan American Games
Gold medal – first place 2015 Toronto Team
*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

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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

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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

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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

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  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 (women's 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. 18 June 2015.
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