Catalina Pérez Jaramillo (born 8 November 1994) is a Colombian professional

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who plays as a

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for

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club

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and the Colombia women's national team.

Early life

Born in

Bogotá Bogotá (, also , , ), officially Bogotá, Distrito Capital, abbreviated Bogotá, D.C., and formerly known as Santa Fe de Bogotá (; ) during the Spanish period and between 1991 and 2000, is the capital city of Colombia, and one of the larges ...

, Colombia, Pérez moved to

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as a young child and started playing soccer when she was eight years old. She played her entire youth career at Team Boca Soccer Club and attended the

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Club career

Pérez is a former player of

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club

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. She also played for the Team Boca Blast of the WPSL. At the beginning of 2020, she moved to Italy to compete in

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as a member of

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; however, she did not play any matches due to her suspension because of the coronavirus disease pandemic. On 25 July 2020, her transfer to Napoli was announced. She made her debut for in a

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match on 27 September against US Città di Pontedera. Her team won the match with a score of 1–0. Pérez joined

club

in July 2023.

International career

At the age of 15, Pérez represented Colombia U20 in

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but did not play any matches. On 20 May 2015, Pérez was selected in the Colombian U-23 squad for the

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. After not playing in the group stage she made her World Cup debut on 22 June 2015, against

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, when the usual starter Sandra Sepúlveda was suspended due to yellow card accumulation. However, Pérez did not play the entire match because in the 47th minute (the beginning of the second half) she brought down US forward

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inside the penalty area. This resulted in a penalty for United States and a red card for Pérez, who was dismissed from the game.

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eventually missed the penalty but the United States took advantage of having one more player on the field and scored two goals to eliminate Colombia 2–0 in the Round of 16.

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Catalina Pérez
on Football.it 1994 births Living people Colombian emigrants to the United States Naturalized citizens of the United States Sportspeople from Boca Raton, Florida American sportspeople of Colombian descent Colombian women's footballers American women's soccer players Footballers from Bogotá Soccer players from Florida Women's association football goalkeepers Colombia women's international footballers 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup players 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup players Olympic footballers for Colombia Footballers at the 2016 Summer Olympics Pan American Games gold medalists for Colombia Pan American Games medalists in football Footballers at the 2019 Pan American Games Medalists at the 2019 Pan American Games Serie A (women's football) players Liga F players Mississippi State Bulldogs women's soccer players ACF Fiorentina (women) players Miami Hurricanes women's soccer players SSD Napoli Femminile players Real Betis Féminas players SV Werder Bremen (women) players Colombian expatriate women's footballers American expatriate women's soccer players Colombian expatriate sportspeople in Italy American expatriate sportspeople in Italy Expatriate women's footballers in Italy Colombian expatriate sportspeople in Spain American expatriate sportspeople in Spain Expatriate women's footballers in Spain Colombian expatriate sportspeople in Germany American expatriate soccer players in Germany Expatriate women's footballers in Germany 21st-century Colombian women {{Colombia-footy-goalkeeper-stub