Alexyar Carolina Cañas García (born 5 December 1996) is a Venezuelan

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who plays as a

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for Ecuadorian Super Liga Femenina club Carneras UPS. She was a member of the Venezuela women's national team.

Club career

Cañas is a former player of

Zamora FC Zamora Fútbol Club is a Venezuelan football club in Barinas. History Zamora Fútbol Club was founded in 2002. After being in the Second Division for several years the club was promoted to the First Division after finishing as runners-up in th ...

. She signed for

Cortuluá Cortuluá, officially named Cortuluá Fútbol Club S. A. and previously known as Corporación Club Deportivo Tuluá, is a Colombian football club from the municipality of Tuluá in the Valle del Cauca. It was founded in 1967 and plays in the Cate ...

in September 2018.

International career

Cañas represented Venezuela at the

2015 South American U-20 Women's Championship The 2015 South American Under-20 Women's Football Championship was the seventh edition of the South American Under-20 Women's Football Championship, the biennial international youth football championship organised by the CONMEBOL for the women's ...

and the

2016 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup The 2016 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup was the 8th edition of the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup, the biennial international women's youth football championship contested by the under-20 national teams of the member associations of FIFA. The tourname ...

. At senior level, she played the

2014 Central American and Caribbean Games The 22nd Central American and Caribbean Games were held November 14–30, 2014 in Veracruz, Mexico.Sport page

. She was also selected for the
2018 Copa América Femenina The 2018 Copa América Femenina was the eighth edition of the CONMEBOL Copa América Femenina (also referred to as the ''Copa América Femenina''), the quadrennial international football competition for women's national teams in South America af ...
, but did not play.

International goals
''Scores and results list Venezuela's goal tally first''

References
1996 births Living people Women's association football midfielders Women's association football defenders Venezuelan women's footballers Footballers from Caracas Venezuela women's international footballers Competitors at the 2014 Central American and Caribbean Games Asociación Civil Deportivo Lara players América de Cali footballers Zamora F.C. players Santa Teresa CD players Cortuluá footballers Barcelona S.C. footballers Venezuelan expatriate women's footballers Venezuelan expatriate sportspeople in Colombia Expatriate women's footballers in Colombia Venezuelan expatriate sportspeople in Spain Expatriate women's footballers in Spain Venezuelan expatriate sportspeople in Ecuador Expatriate women's footballers in Ecuador {{Venezuela-women-footy-bio-stub