Alline Miranda Calandrini de Azevedo (born 8 March 1988), commonly known as Calan, is a Brazilian

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and former

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defender who played for the Brazil women's national team. She was a zagueira () for Santos, Centro Olímpico and

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Club career

Calan began playing football at six years old. Her first professional club was Juventus, from where she progressed to Santos. Santos won the

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and

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, but in early 2012 Santos'

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scrapped the women's section, to save money after handing their male player Neymar a large new contract. Ten of the displaced players moved to Centro Olímpico, including Calan, who had to give up her house in Santos to move to a shared flat in

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. When Santos reinstated their women's team in 2015, Calan returned as

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. She sustained a serious injury in 2016 and did not play at all in 2017 as she was taking part in a

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series. In February 2018 she transferred to

. In August 2018 she announced her retirement from playing, to focus on her career as a sports journalist.

International career

Calan was part of the Brazil under-20 selection at the

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and subsequent

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. When Calan's Santos

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Kleiton Lima took the Brazil women's national football team job in March 2009, he named her in his first squad for a

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against

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. She was present on the substitutes' bench, but did not appear in the match. Calan was called up by the national team again in August 2013. She made a first appearance for Brazil in September 2013, in a 1–0 win over

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at the

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. Despite featuring in Brazil's successful

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campaign, Calan was not selected for the

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or the

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. When she was ruled out for six months with damaged knee ligaments in August 2016, she recognised that the squad for the

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was already "closed", but hoped to regain her national team place afterwards. She was pleasantly surprised to be invited to national team training upon her recovery in January 2017, but exceptionally frustrated when she re-injured the same knee shortly afterwards and was unable to attend.

Personal life

While playing football Calan also trained as a broadcast journalist, inspired by

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. While playing for Santos she appeared as a

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. Sometimes described as a "

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" (), it was reported that Calan's good looks brought her wider attention and a dedicated

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following. As a young player she was annoyed by the "musa" label and wanted respect as an athlete. In later years she did not allow it to unsettle her or detract from her football. During her career she rejected transfer offers from foreign clubs, preferring to remain in Brazil.

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* * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Calan 1988 births Living people Brazilian women's footballers Brazil women's international footballers People from Macapá Women's association football defenders Sport Club Corinthians Paulista (women) players Santos FC (women) players Associação Desportiva Centro Olímpico players Participants in Brazilian reality television series Brazilian sports broadcasters Sportspeople from Amapá 21st-century Brazilian sportswomen