Gabriela Maria Zanotti Demoner (born 28 February 1985), commonly known as Gabi Zanotti or simply Gabi, is a Brazilian professional

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who plays as a

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for

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and the Brazil women's national team. She participated at the

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Club career

Between the ages of nine and 14, Gabi played alongside her mother Nailza in a women's football team which competed at regional level. Between 2004 and 2006 she played for Kindermann, based in Santa Catarina. Gabi then played

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in the United States while attending

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. She spent the 2010 season playing in the North American W-League for

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. In

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she was with

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, playing eight times and scoring one goal. In 2011 Gabi played for Santos, but in early 2012 Santos'

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closed the club women's section. Gabi accompanied Maurine,

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and several other displaced Santos players in transferring to Centro Olímpico.

International career

In July 2013 Gabi represented Brazil at the

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, Russia. She had already debuted for the senior national team, as a substitute in a 5–2 win over

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at the 2009 Torneio Internacional Cidade de São Paulo de Futebol Feminino. She was named as an alternate for the Brazil squad at the

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. In early 2015 Gabi was included in an 18-month residency programme intended to prepare Brazil's national team for the

in Canada and the

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. At the World Cup, Gabi appeared in just one of Brazil's four matches, as part of a much-changed team in the 1–0 final group game win over

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. After Brazil's 1–0 second round defeat by

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, Gabi remained in Canada as part of the gold medal-winning Brazilian selection at the

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International goals

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profile * 1985 births Living people Brazilian women's footballers Brazil women's international footballers Brazilian expatriate women's footballers 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup players Women's association football midfielders Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in the United States Expatriate women's soccer players in the United States Associação Desportiva Centro Olímpico players Santos FC (women) players USL W-League (1995–2015) players Chinese Women's Super League players Dalian Quanjian F.C. players Sport Club Corinthians Paulista (women) players Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in China Expatriate women's footballers in China Universiade bronze medalists for Brazil Universiade medalists in football Pan American Games medalists in football Pan American Games gold medalists for Brazil Footballers at the 2015 Pan American Games Medalists at the 2013 Summer Universiade Medalists at the 2015 Pan American Games Sportspeople from Espírito Santo 21st-century Brazilian women Boston Renegades players {{Brazil-women-footy-bio-stub