Diana Micaela Abreu de Sousa e Silva (born 4 June 1995), commonly known as Diana Silva, is a Portuguese professional

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who plays as a

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for Sporting and the

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Career

Silva started playing football at six years old. When she was 13, she started playing for

Atlético Ouriense Atlético Ouriense is a women's football club from Ourém, Portugal Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic ( pt, República Portuguesa, links=yes ), is a country whose mainland is located on the Iberian Peninsula of Southwestern E ...

's boys' team before being promoted straight into their women's team as Atlético Ouriense had no girls' youth team. She later moved to

Clube de Albergaria Clube de Albergaria is a Portuguese women's football team from Albergaria-a-Velha ( Aveiro District). Current squad * ''Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules As the governing body of association footbal ...

. In 2016, she moved to the newly recreated Sporting Lisbon Lionesses. Silva was among the first names revealed to have joined Sporting's new women's team after the club had been 21 years without one. During this year she also started studying for a university degree in pharmaceutical sciences at the

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. She won the

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with Sporting in her first year there.

International career

Silva played for the Portugal women's national under-19 football team during the

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. She made her debut for the full Portugal women's national football team in March 2014. In 2017, she was selected as a part of Portugal's debut squad in the 2017 UEFA Women's Championship. During the tournament, she received praise for her performance against the

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. She also played in Portugal's final group match against the

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however Portugal lost 2–1 and were eliminated.

Career statistics

Club

International goals

:''As of match played 4 March 2020. Portugal score listed first, score column indicates score after each Silva goal.''

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* * 1995 births Living people Women's association football forwards Portuguese women's footballers People from Amadora Portuguese people of African descent Women of African descent Portugal women's international footballers Campeonato Nacional de Futebol Feminino players Sporting CP (women's football) players Atlético Ouriense players Clube de Albergaria players Aston Villa W.F.C. players Sportspeople from Lisbon District UEFA Women's Euro 2022 players UEFA Women's Euro 2017 players {{Portugal-women-footy-bio-stub