Ana Lúcia Nascimento dos Santos (born 22 July 1991), commonly known as Dida, is a Brazilian professional

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who plays as a

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for Série A1 club

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. She was a member of the Brazil women's national team.

International career

Dida represented Brazil on the under-19 and

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national teams and was also called up at

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Controversy

From 2015 to 2016, Dida made appearances for the Equatorial Guinea national team despite having no connection with the African nation. She played the 2015 CAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament and the 2016 Africa Women Cup of Nations Qualifying. On 5 October 2017, she and other nine Brazilian footballers were declared by FIFA as ineligible to play for Equatorial Guinea.

Career statistics

International

Honours

Grótta * 2. deild kvenna: 2018 Benfica * Supertaça de Portugal: 2019

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* * 1991 births Living people Sportspeople from Bahia Brazilian women's footballers Women's association football goalkeepers Associação Desportiva Centro Olímpico players BÍ/Bolungarvík players Associação Acadêmica e Desportiva Vitória das Tabocas players CR Vasco da Gama (women's football) players São José Esporte Clube (women) players Ungmennafélagið Tindastóll women's football players Santos FC (women) players Afturelding women's football players Maccabi Holon F.C. (women) players S.L. Benfica (women) footballers Campeonato Brasileiro de Futebol Feminino Série A1 players Ligat Nashim players Campeonato Nacional de Futebol Feminino players Equatorial Guinea women's international footballers Brazilian expatriate women's footballers Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Iceland Expatriate women's footballers in Iceland Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Israel Expatriate women's footballers in Israel Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Portugal Expatriate women's footballers in Portugal {{Brazil-women-footy-bio-stub