Bárbara Micheline do Monte Barbosa (born 4 July 1988), commonly known as Bárbara, is a Brazilian

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who plays as a

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for Kindermann and the Brazil women's national football team. Bárbara has played for clubs in Italy, Sweden and Germany as well as in her native Brazil. Since making her national team debut in 2007, she has won over 30 caps for Brazil. She has been part of her country's squad at four editions of the

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and at two

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Club career

In autumn 2008 Bárbara joined Italian club Napoli. She moved to Swedish

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team

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in early 2009 and remained for two seasons, until the club was relegated at the end of the 2010 campaign. She rejected offers from other Swedish teams to return to the women's section of

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, where her career began. Bárbara played four league matches for

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club BV Cloppenburg in the 2013–14 season.

International career

At the

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, FIFA.com reported that Bárbara's goalkeeping was a "key factor" in the Brazilian team which finished third. In September 2007 Bárbara made her senior international debut in

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's 2–1

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defeat by

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. She was called into Brazil's squad for the

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, where she understudied veteran Andréia Suntaque. Bárbara was Brazil's first choice goalkeeper at the

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. She won a silver medal when Brazil lost the final 1–0 after

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to the

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. After the final Bárbara gave an insight into Brazilian women's football's lack of development when she revealed she had not been paid by her club for six months. Bárbara was part of the Brazilian World Cup squads in

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and

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Personal life

Bárbara is openly lesbian, having a relationship with her partner Lidiane.

References

External links

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Bárbara Micheline do Monte Barbosa
– FIFA World Cup profile * 1988 births Living people Brazilian women's footballers Women's association football goalkeepers Sportspeople from Recife Olympic footballers of Brazil Olympic silver medalists for Brazil Footballers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Footballers at the 2012 Summer Olympics Expatriate women's footballers in Sweden Expatriate women's footballers in Italy Expatriate women's footballers in Germany 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup players 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup players 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup players Footballers at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic medalists in football Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics Brazil women's international footballers Brazilian expatriate women's footballers Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Germany Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Italy Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Sweden Sunnanå SK players Damallsvenskan players Pan American Games gold medalists for Brazil Pan American Games silver medalists for Brazil Pan American Games medalists in football Footballers at the 2007 Pan American Games Footballers at the 2011 Pan American Games Universiade bronze medalists for Brazil Universiade medalists in football 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup players LGBT sportspeople from Brazil LGBT association football players Medalists at the 2007 Pan American Games Medalists at the 2011 Pan American Games S.S.D. Napoli Femminile players Sociedade Esportiva Kindermann players Footballers at the 2020 Summer Olympics 21st-century LGBT people {{Brazil-women-footy-bio-stub Lesbian sportswomen