Carolina Ana Trindade Coruche Mendes (born 27 November 1987) is a

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striker, who plays for

SC Braga Sporting Clube de Braga () (), commonly known as Sporting de Braga or just Braga, is a Portuguese sports club from the city of Braga. It is best known for the professional football team playing in the Primeira Liga, the top flight of Portuguese f ...

and the

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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

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, where she player for

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and SPC Llanos de Olivenza in

's Primera División. In 2013, she moved to Italy's

ASD Riviera di Romagna Associazione Sportiva Dilettantistica Riviera di Romagna Calcio Femminile is an Italian women's football club from Cervia. The club had participated in Serie A, but withdrew from the league in 2016. It was established in 2010 from the merge of ...

, and the next year she signed for

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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

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at the

2007 Algarve Cup The 2007 Algarve Cup was the fourteenth edition of the Algarve Cup, an invitational women's football tournament held annually in Portugal. It took place between 7 and 12 March 2007 with the previous year's runners-up, the United States, winning t ...

. She was named by

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in the Portugal squad for

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in the Netherlands. In Portugal's 2–1 win over

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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

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, but Portugal lost 2–1 and was eliminated.

Honours

Braga *

Taça da Liga The Taça da Liga (), known outside Portugal as Portuguese League Cup, is an annual football club competition organised by the Liga Portuguesa de Futebol Profissional (LPFP) for teams competing in the Primeira Liga and LigaPro, the top two tier ...

: 2021–22 1º de Dezembro *

Campeonato Nacional Feminino The Campeonato Nacional Feminino (English: Women's National Championship), also known as Liga BPI for sponsorship reasons, is the top-tier women's association football league in Portugal. It is run by the Portuguese Football Federation and began ...

: 2010, 2011 *

Taça de Portugal The Taça de Portugal (; "Cup of Portugal") is an annual association football competition and the premier knockout tournament in Portuguese football. For sponsorship reasons, it has been known as Taça de Portugal Placard since the 2015–16 seaso ...

: 2010, 2011 Rossiyanka *

Russian Women's Football Championship The Russian Women's Football Championship (russian: Чемпионат России по футболу среди женщин), also known as the Top Division and the Women's Football League, is the highest professional women's football league i ...

: 2016

International goals

:''Scores and results list Portugal's goal tally first.''

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at 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 {{Portugal-women-footy-bio-stub