Brianna Fannua Bellido Sterner (born 17 January 1993) is a former
footballer
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who played as a
midfielder
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Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...
. Born in the United States, she has been a member of the
Peru national team.
Early life
Bellido was raised in
Mechanicsburg,
Pennsylvania
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to a Peruvian father and an American mother.
High school and college career
Bellido has attended the Cumberland Valley High School
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in her hometown and the California University of Pennsylvania in California
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, Pennsylvania.[
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International career
Bellido represented Peru at the 2010 South American U-17 Women's Championship
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.[ She capped at senior level during the ]2010 South American Women's Football Championship
The 2010 South American Women's Football Championship ( es, Campeonato Sudamericano Femenino – Copa América de Selecciones) was the sixth edition of the South American Women's Football Championship, and acted as a qualifier for the 2011 FIFA Wom ...
.
References
1993 births
Living people
Citizens of Peru through descent
Peruvian women's footballers
Women's association football midfielders
Peru women's international footballers
Peruvian people of American descent
Sportspeople of American descent
Sportspeople from Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania
Sportspeople from Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
Soccer players from Pennsylvania
American women's soccer players
California Vulcans athletes
College women's soccer players in the United States
American sportspeople of Peruvian descent
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