Ana Cristina da Silva (born 12 December 1985), commonly known as Cris, is a Brazilian professional

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who plays as a

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for Série A1 club

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. Cris was part of the

Equatorial Guinea women's national football team The Equatorial Guinea women's national football team, nicknamed the Nzalang Femenino, has represented Equatorial Guinea in international Women's association football, women's football competition since 2000. It is controlled by the Equatoguinean ...

at the

2011 FIFA Women's World Cup The 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup was the sixth FIFA Women's World Cup competition, the world championship for women's national association football teams. It was held from 26 June to 17 July 2011 in Germany, which won the right to host the even ...

. On 5 October 2017, Cris and other nine Brazilian footballers were declared by FIFA as ineligible to play for Equatorial Guinea.

Early life

Ana Cristina da Silva was born on 12 December 1985 in

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, a

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of the state of

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in Brazil.

Club career

While playing for

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(commonly known as Ferroviária) in Brazil, she was a member of the team that won the Campeonato Brasileiro de Futebol Feminino league and the

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cup double in 2014.

International career

After being nationalised as an

Equatoguinean Equatorial Guinea ( es, Guinea Ecuatorial; french: Guinée équatoriale; pt, Guiné Equatorial), officially the Republic of Equatorial Guinea ( es, link=no, República de Guinea Ecuatorial, french: link=no, République de Guinée équatoria ...

, she was selected as a member of the

for the

in Germany. At the time of being named in the squad, she was unattached at club level. When da Silva was a member of the Equatorial Guinea team that won the

2012 African Women's Championship The 2012 African Women's Championship was a football competition, which was organized by the Confederation of African Football (CAF). The final tournament was held in from 28 October to 11 November in Equatorial Guinea. Qualification A total of ...

, she was one of 11 out of the 21 players who were naturalized Brazilians playing as Equatoguineans. She continued to play for the Equatoguinean women's team through the qualifying matches for the

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, Brazil. However, the team were expelled from the tournament after fielding a player with fraudulent documentation.

International goals

''Scores and results list Equatorial Guinea's goal tally first''

Notes

References

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Cris 1985 births Living people Footballers from Rio de Janeiro (state) Brazilian women's footballers Women's association football midfielders Santos FC (women) players Associação Ferroviária de Esportes (women) players São Paulo FC (women) players Campeonato Brasileiro de Futebol Feminino Série A1 players Equatorial Guinea women's international footballers 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup players Brazilian expatriate women's footballers Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Equatorial Guinea Expatriate women's footballers in Equatorial Guinea People from Três Rios 20th-century Brazilian women 21st-century Brazilian women