Diana Catarina Ribeiro Gomes (born 26 July 1998) is a Portuguese professional

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who plays as a

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and a

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for Spanish

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club

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and the Portugal women's national team.

Career

Club

Gomes started playing at the local team

S.C. Freamunde Sport Clube Freamunde is a Portuguese Association football, football club based in Freamunde, Paços de Ferreira. Founded on 19 March 1933, it currently plays in the Campeonato de Portugal (league), Campeonato de Portugal, holding home matches at ...

Paços de Ferreira Paços de Ferreira () is a city in the Porto District, in the north of Portugal. The population of the city in 2011 was 7491, while its municipality had 56,340 inhabitants, in an area of 70.99 km². Sometimes referred to as the ''Capital do ...

in 2012. Four years later, she moved to

Campeonato Nacional de Futebol 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 ...

's team,

Valadares Gaia F.C. Valadares may refer to: Places in Portugal * Valadares, a civil parish in Baião Municipality * Valadares, a civil parish in Monção Municipality * Valadares, a civil parish in São Pedro do Sul Municipality, Portugal, São Pedro do Sul Municipa ...

In 2017, Gomes signed with

S.C. 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 ...

International

Starting in 2013, Gomes represented Portugal at several youth levels. With the Portugal U17 team, she played the

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, the first time the team qualified for a

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. Gomes also played three

2017 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship The 2017 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship (also known as UEFA Women's Under-19 Euro 2017) was the 16th edition of the UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship (20th edition if the Under-18 era is included), the annual international youth football champ ...

qualifying tournaments for Portugal U19. On 3 March 2017 Gomes debuted for Portugal senior team in a 6–0 loss for

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. On 19 June 2017 she was included by coach

Francisco Neto Francisco Miguel Conceição Roque Neto (born 11 July 1981), known as Francisco Neto or simply Neto, is a Portuguese football manager, currently the head coach of the Portugal women's national football team The Portugal women's national footb ...

in the 25-women preliminary squad intended to represent Portugal at the

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, the first time the Portuguese national team qualified for a women's football major tournament. On 6 July 2017 Neto released the 23-women final roster, cutting Gomes and Cristiana Garcia from the team. However, in the last training session before the departure for the tournament,

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picked up an injury, and on 14 July Gomes was called up by Neto as her replacement. Gomes didn't play any match in the competition and Portugal was eliminated in the tournament first stage. On 30 May 2023, she was included in the 23-player squad for the

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International goals

References

External links

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Player's Profile at SC Braga
{{DEFAULTSORT:Gomes, Diana 1998 births Living people Portugal women's international footballers Portuguese women's footballers Women's association football midfielders Women's association football defenders Campeonato Nacional de Futebol Feminino players S.C. Braga (women) players Valadares Gaia F.C. (women) players People from Paços de Ferreira Footballers from Porto District UEFA Women's Euro 2022 players UEFA Women's Euro 2017 players Portuguese expatriate women's footballers Portuguese expatriate sportspeople in Spain Expatriate women's footballers in Spain Sevilla FC (women) players 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup players