Ana Catarina Marques Borges (born 15 June 1990) is a Portuguese

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er who plays for Sporting CP and the Portugal women's national football team. After initially joining on

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from Chelsea, she made the move back to

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permanent in July 2017, just before UEFA Women's Euro 2017. She is an important member of the Portugal national team with over 110 caps.

Club career

At the

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, staged at

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for the first time, Borges appeared as a late substitute in Chelsea's 1–0 win over Notts County. It was Chelsea's first major trophy. In October 2015 she was an unused substitute for Chelsea's 4–0 win over

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, which secured the club's first

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title and a League and Cup "

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". In December 2016, Borges renewed her contract with Chelsea but agreed to move on

to Sporting CP at the same time. On being introduced to the crowd at Estádio José Alvalade, Borges vowed: "I will do everything to help Sporting, the club of my whole life." Borges was voted the

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Player of the Season in June 2018.

International career

Borges scored on her debut for the Portugal women's national football team on 4 March 2009, a 2–1 win over

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at the

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. Two days later Portugal secured another 2–1 win, this time against

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, and Borges scored again on the occasion of her second cap. She was named by

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Francisco Neto in the 23-player Portugal squad for UEFA Women's Euro 2017 in the Netherlands. In November 2017 she made her 100th appearance for Portugal in a

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fixture against

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International goals

References

External links

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National team profile
at Portuguese Football Federation (FPF)
Profile
at Sporting CP 1990 births Living people Portuguese women's footballers Portuguese expatriate sportspeople in Spain Portuguese expatriates in England Portugal women's international footballers USL W-League (1995–2015) players Primera División (women) players Atlético Madrid Femenino players Chelsea F.C. Women players Women's Super League players Expatriate women's footballers in England Expatriate women's footballers in Spain Zaragoza CFF players People from Gouveia, Portugal Women's association football wingers Women's association football forwards FIFA Century Club Campeonato Nacional de Futebol Feminino players Sporting CP (women's football) players Sportspeople from Guarda District UEFA Women's Euro 2022 players UEFA Women's Euro 2017 players Portuguese expatriate women's footballers Portuguese expatriate sportspeople in England {{Portugal-women-footy-bio-stub