Carolina Ana Trindade Coruche Mendes (born 27 November 1987) is a
Portuguese
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football
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striker, who plays for
SC Braga
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and the
Portugal women's national football team
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.
Club career
She first played for
UD Ponte Frielas and
SU 1º de Dezembro of the
National Football Championship. She subsequently moved to
Spain
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, national_motto = ''Plus ultra'' (Latin)(English: "Further Beyond")
, national_anthem = (English: "Royal March")
, i ...
, where she player for
UE L'Estartit
Unió Esportiva L'Estartit Costa Brava is a Spanish women's football club from L'Estartit, Girona.
History
Founded in 1992 as the women football section of an homonym football club, it became an independent club following its disappearance. In ...
and
SPC Llanos de Olivenza in
Spain
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, image_coat = Escudo de España (mazonado).svg
, national_motto = ''Plus ultra'' (Latin)(English: "Further Beyond")
, national_anthem = (English: "Royal March")
, i ...
's
Primera División.
In 2013, she moved to Italy's
ASD Riviera di Romagna
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, and the next year she signed for
WFC Rossiyanka
WFC Rossiyanka was a Russian women's soccer, women's football club from Khimki.
History
The team was founded in 1990 as Nadezhda Krasnoarmeysk, being initially a futsal club. Futsal was played until 1998, when the club left it to concentrate in ...
in Russia. In 2016 Mendes signed a contract with Djurgårdens IF for one year.
International career
Mendes made her debut for the senior
Portugal national team in March 2007, as a
substitute in a 1–1 draw with
Ireland
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at the
2007 Algarve Cup
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. She was named by
coach
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Francisco Neto
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The Portugal women's national foot ...
in the Portugal squad for
UEFA Women's Euro 2017
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in the Netherlands.
In Portugal's 2–1 win over
Scotland
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, Mendes scored the national team's first-ever goal at major international tournament finals. She scored again in the final group match against
England
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, but Portugal lost 2–1 and was eliminated.
Honours
Braga
*
Taça da Liga
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: 2021–22
1º de Dezembro
*
Campeonato Nacional Feminino
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: 2010, 2011
*
Taça de Portugal
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: 2010, 2011
Rossiyanka
*
Russian Women's Football Championship
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: 2016
International goals
:''Scores and results list Portugal's goal tally first.''
References
External links
*
*
Profileat the LTA Agency
1987 births
Living people
Portuguese women's footballers
Portuguese expatriate sportspeople in Spain
Portugal women's international footballers
Expatriate women's footballers in Italy
Expatriate women's footballers in Russia
Expatriate women's footballers in Spain
UE L'Estartit players
Djurgårdens IF Fotboll (women) players
Women's association football forwards
S.U. 1º Dezembro (women) players
Campeonato Nacional de Futebol Feminino players
Sporting CP (women's football) players
Damallsvenskan players
Serie A (women's football) players
Atalanta Mozzanica Calcio Femminile Dilettantistico players
Carolina Mendes
WFC Rossiyanka players
Portuguese expatriate sportspeople in Iceland
Portuguese expatriate sportspeople in Russia
Portuguese expatriate sportspeople in Italy
Expatriate women's footballers in Iceland
Expatriate women's footballers in Sweden
FIFA Women's Century Club
CD Badajoz Femenino players
UEFA Women's Euro 2022 players
S.C. Braga (women) players
Portuguese expatriate women's footballers
UEFA Women's Euro 2017 players
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