Giovanna dos Santos Nascimento (born 22 April 1997), known as Gi Santos, is a Brazilian

women's association football Women's association football, more commonly known simply as women's football or women's soccer, is a team sport of association football when played by women only. It is played at the professional level in multiple countries and 176 national te ...

defender, who plays for

Beşiktaş J.K. Beşiktaş Jimnastik Kulübü (), also known simply as Beşiktaş (), is a Turkish sports club founded in 1903 that is based in the Beşiktaş district of Istanbul. The club's football team is one of the Big Three in Turkey and one of the most ...

in Turkey. After Brazil, she played in Colombia and Portugal before moving to Turkey. She was a member of the Brazil women's national U20 team.

Private life

She was born in

Campo Limpo Paulista Campo Limpo Paulista is a municipality in the state of São Paulo in Brazil. The population is 85,541 (2020 est.) in an area of 79.4 km². The elevation is 745 m. The town is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Campo Limpo The Roman ...

São Paulo São Paulo (, ; Portuguese for 'Saint Paul') is the most populous city in Brazil, and is the capital of the state of São Paulo, the most populous and wealthiest Brazilian state, located in the country's Southeast Region. Listed by the GaWC a ...

, Brazil on 22 April 1997.

Playing career

Club

Gi Santos started her career at the professional women's football club Centro Olímpico in

in 2016. The same year, she transferred to Foz Cataratas in

Foz do Iguaçu Foz do Iguaçu (''Iguazu River Mouth'') () is the Brazilian city on the border of Iguaçu Falls. The city is the 7th largest in the state of Paraná. The city's population is approximately 258,000. It is approximately 650 km (400 mi) we ...

Paraná. She took part at the

2016 Copa Libertadores Femenina The 2016 Copa Libertadores Femenina was the eighth edition of the Copa Libertadores Femenina, South America's premier women's club football tournament organized by CONMEBOL. The tournament was played in Uruguay from 6 to 20 December 2016. In the ...

, and scored a goal. In 2017, she joined

Sport Recife Sport Club do Recife, (; known as Sport Recife or Sport, is a Brazilian sports club, located in the city of Recife, in the Brazilian state of Pernambuco. Founded in 1905, the club currently plays in Série B. In football, the club has w ...

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Pernambuco Pernambuco () is a state of Brazil, located in the Northeast region of the country. With an estimated population of 9.6 million people as of 2020, making it seventh-most populous state of Brazil and with around 98,148 km², being the 19 ...

. After two years, she returned to Foz do Iguaçu for a while. She went to Colombia to play for the transferred to the

Bogotá Bogotá (, also , , ), officially Bogotá, Distrito Capital, abbreviated Bogotá, D.C., and formerly known as Santa Fe de Bogotá (; ) during the Spanish period and between 1991 and 2000, is the capital city of Colombia, and one of the larges ...

-nased club

Independiente Santa Fe Club Independiente Santa Fe, known simply as Santa Fe, is a Colombian professional football team based in Bogotá, that currently plays in the Categoría Primera A. They play their home games at the El Campín stadium. Santa Fe is one of the th ...

. In 2020, she signed with

F.C. Famalicão Futebol Clube de Famalicão, commonly known as Famalicão, is a Portuguese association football, football club from Vila Nova de Famalicão. Founded on 21 August 1931, its senior team currently plays in the Primeira Liga, the top tier of Portugu ...

Vila Nova de Famalicão Vila Nova de Famalicão () is a Portuguese town with a population of approximately 133,048 inhabitants () in an area of 201,59 km2, subdivided into 49 parishes (Administrative Division of 11 Unions of Parishes and 23 Parish Councils,). Insert ...

, Portıgal. In the beginning of August 2021, she moved to Turkey and joined

, which became champion of the 2020–21 Turkcell League, and so was to play in the 2021–22 UEFA Champions League qualifying rounds. She played in two matches of the

2021–22 UEFA Women's Champions League qualifying rounds The 2021–22 UEFA Women's Champions League qualifying rounds began on 17 August and ended on 9 September 2021. A total of 68 teams competed in the group stage qualifying rounds of the 2021–22 UEFA Women's Champions League, which includes two rou ...

International

Gi Santos was a member of the Brazil women's national U20 team.

Honours

; Foz Cataratas :;

Copa Libertadores Femenina The CONMEBOL Libertadores Femenina, named as "Copa Libertadores Femenina" ( pt, Copa Libertadores Feminina or Taça Libertadores Feminina) is an annual international women's association football club competition in South America. It is organized by ...

* ''Third place'' (1):

2016 File:2016 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Bombed-out buildings in Ankara following the 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt; the impeachment trial of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff; Damaged houses during the 2016 Nagorno-Karabakh ...

References

1997 births Living people Brazilian women's footballers Women's association football defenders Footballers from São Paulo Santos FC (women) players Brazilian expatriate women's footballers Expatriate women's footballers in Colombia Brazilian expatriates in Colombia Expatriate women's footballers in Portugal Expatriate women's footballers in Turkey Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Turkey Beşiktaş J.K. women's football players Turkish Women's Football Super League players F.C. Famalicão (women) players Campeonato Nacional de Futebol Feminino players Associação Desportiva Centro Olímpico players Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Portugal {{Brazil-footy-defender-1990s-stub