Bruna Amarante da Silva (born 12 May 1984), simply known as Bruna, is a Brazilian professional
footballer
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who plays as a
centre back
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Centre-backs are usually positioned in pairs, with one full-back on either ...
for Grêmio Esportivo Recanto da Criança Interativo.
Bruna played previously in the
Kazakhstani women's football championship for
BIIK Kazygurt
BIIK Shymkent ( kk, БИІК-Қазығұрт, BİIK-Qazyğūrt) is a women's football club based in Shymkent, Kazakhstan competing in the Kazakhstani Championship. Formerly established in Almaty as Alma-KTZh, the team won five championships in a ...
, with which she made her
Champions League debut in
August 2012. She had played before in her home country.
Bruna was part of the
Equatorial Guinea women's national football team
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at the
2011 FIFA Women's World Cup.
On 5 October 2017, Bruna and other nine Brazilian footballers were declared by FIFA as
ineligible to play for Equatorial Guinea.
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1984 births
Living people
People from Petrópolis
Footballers from Rio de Janeiro (state)
Brazilian women's footballers
Afro-Brazilian sportspeople
Women's association football central defenders
Saad Esporte Clube (women) players
BIIK Kazygurt players
CR Vasco da Gama (women) players
São José Esporte Clube (women) players
Campeonato Brasileiro de Futebol Feminino Série A1 players
Brazilian expatriate women's footballers
Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Kazakhstan
Expatriate women's footballers in Kazakhstan
Equatorial Guinea women's international footballers
2011 FIFA Women's World Cup players
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