Francielle Manoel Alberto (born 18 October 1989), commonly known as Francielle or Fran, is a Brazilian footballer who plays as a

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for the

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. At club level she most recently played for Norwegian

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club

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. She previously played for

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, São José and Santos in Brazil, as well as for

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and

Sky Blue FC NJ/NY Gotham FC is a professional women's soccer team based in Harrison, New Jersey. Founded in 2006 as Jersey Sky Blue, the team was known as Sky Blue FC from 2008 until 2020. A founding member of the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) in 2013 ...

Women's Professional Soccer Women's Professional Soccer (WPS) was the top-level professional women's soccer league in the United States. It began play on March 29, 2009. The league was composed of seven teams for its first two seasons and fielded six teams for the 2011 sea ...

(WPS).

Playing career

Club

United States

Francielle was on the opening day roster for St. Louis Athletica in the inaugural season of the WPS in 2009, and played in six matches for them. On 26 June 2009, St. Louis Athletica traded Francielle and

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for

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. She scored the game-winning goal in the first round of the WPS playoffs at the

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. Sky Blue later defeated Francielle's former team, the Athletica, and the

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to win the 2009 WPS title.

Brazil

Francielle won the

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with Santos. In 2013 Francielle and São José won the

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. In 2013 and 2014 she and her team also won league and cup titles.

Boston Breakers

10 November 2014 the

Boston Breakers The Boston Breakers were an American professional soccer club based in the Boston neighborhood of Allston. The team competed in the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL). They replaced the original Breakers, who competed in the defunct Women's ...

signed Francielle for the 2015 NWSL season. Ultimately she never joined the Breakers as she was instead called into Brazil's residency camp for the

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Stjarnan

In summer 2015 Francielle and compatriot Poliana agreed to play for Icelandic Úrvalsdeild club

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in their

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campaign.

Avaldsnes

After spending 2016 back in Brazil with Corinthians Audax, Francielle joined a Brazilian contingent at

. She helped the team win the 2017

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, before departing during the

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season.

International

In November 2006 Francielle made her senior international debut in

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's 2–0

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win over

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. Francielle appeared in all four of Brazil's matches at the 2011 Women's World Cup, and converted a penalty kick in the overtime shootout of the quarterfinal match versus the

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. In the

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, Francielle appeared in five of Brazil's six matches, winning a silver medal. Francielle's first goal in a major international tournament came at the

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versus

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, where she played in all four of Brazil's matches. In October 2017 Francielle was one of five Brazil players to quit international football, disgruntled at pay and conditions, and the

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's sacking of head coach Emily Lima.

International goals

Personal life

Francielle is married to Andressa Alves.

References

External links

* *
Sky Blue FC player profile

Santos FC player profile
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Francielle 1989 births Living people Footballers from São Paulo Brazilian women's footballers Women's association football midfielders Olympic footballers of Brazil Olympic silver medalists for Brazil Footballers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Footballers at the 2012 Summer Olympics Sky Blue FC (WPS) players Saint Louis Athletica players 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup players Olympic medalists in football Santos FC (women) players Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics Brazil women's international footballers Brazilian expatriate women's footballers Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in the United States Expatriate women's footballers in Iceland Expatriate women's soccer players in the United States Pan American Games silver medalists for Brazil Pan American Games medalists in football Sport Club Corinthians Paulista (women) players Stjarnan women's football players Footballers at the 2011 Pan American Games Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Iceland Avaldsnes IL players Toppserien players Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Norway Expatriate women's footballers in Norway São José Esporte Clube (women) players LGBT association football players Brazilian LGBT sportspeople Medalists at the 2011 Pan American Games Women's Professional Soccer players Association footballers' wives and girlfriends