Briana DeSouza (born 22 May 1991) is a women's international footballer who plays as a defender. Born in Canada, she co-captains the Guyana national team and competed at the 2016 CONCACAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Championship.

Career

From 2009 to 2013, she attended

Carleton University Carleton University is an English-language public research university in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Founded in 1942 as Carleton College, the institution originally operated as a private, non-denominational evening college to serve returning World ...

, playing for the women's soccer team, captaining the team in her final year. In 2011, she was named an OUA All-Star. She was named an OUA East All-Star in 2012. In 2013, she signed with the Ottawa Fury of the

USL W-League The USL Championship (USLC) is a professional men's soccer league in the United States that began its inaugural season in 2011. The USL is sanctioned by the United States Soccer Federation (U.S. Soccer) as a Division II league since 2017, pl ...

. From 2015 through 2019, she played with Durham United FA in

League1 Ontario League1 Ontario (L1O) is a semi-professional men's association football, soccer league in Ontario, Canada. The league began play in 2014 and is sanctioned by the Canadian Soccer Association and the Ontario Soccer Association as a pro-am league ...

. In 2015, she was named a league First Team All-Star. In 2016, she played 15 matches, making her debut on 8 May against the

Kingston Clippers Kingston Clippers was a Canadian semi-professional association football, soccer club based in Kingston, Ontario. The club was founded as a youth soccer club and added its semi-professional club in League1 Ontario in 2014. The club was one of th ...

. In 2017, she made another 15 appearances, scoring her first goal on 30 August against the

Toronto Azzurri Blizzard Toronto Azzurri Blizzard was a Canadian women's semi-professional soccer club based in Toronto, Ontario that competed in the women's division League1 Ontario. The club was formed as a partnership between two local area clubs - Toronto Blizzard ...

, and was a league Second Team All-Star. She made 9 appearances in each of the 2018 and 2019 seasons, once again being named a Second Team All-Star in 2019. In 2021, she played with

Vaughan Azzurri Vaughan Azzurri is a Canadian semi-professional soccer team based in Vaughan, Ontario, that currently competes in the League1 Ontario men's and women's divisions. The semi-professional team was founded in 2014 by the Vaughan Soccer Club, which ...

in League1 Ontario, making two regular season appearances and one playoff appearance.

Personal

DeSouza is of Guyanese heritage on her father's side, where her grandfather was born, and Italian heritage on her mother's side. Her sister, Kayla DeSouza also played for the Guyana national team.

References

External links

Durham United FC player profile

Ravens player profile
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Desouza, Briana 1991 births Living people Citizens of Guyana through descent Guyanese women's footballers Women's association football defenders Guyana women's international footballers Sportspeople from Scarborough, Toronto Soccer players from Toronto Canadian women's soccer players Guyanese people of Italian descent Canadian sportspeople of Guyanese descent Canadian people of Italian descent Vaughan Azzurri (women) players Carleton Ravens women's soccer players Pickering FC (women) players League1 Ontario (women) players Ottawa Fury (women) players USL W-League (1995–2015) players

Career

Personal

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