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Ida Rebecca Guehai (born 15 July 1994), known as Rebecca Guehai, is an Ivorian
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who plays as a
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or
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for Spanish club
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and the Ivory Coast women's national team. In mid-August 2018, Guehai was diagnosed with cardiovascular deficiencies, which prevent her from playing high-level football. At the time, she was about to sign with
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. However, she did not retire.


Club career

Guehai joined Kristianstads ahead of the 2015 season, aged 20. She scored three goals in her first two games and was hailed as the league's best acquisition in the ''
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'' newspaper's mid-season review.


International career

In December 2011, Guehai was called-up in the
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. The following year she was part of the team selected for the
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. Guehai was included in the Ivory Coast women's team for the
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that defeated
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, in a third place play-off finishing with Guehai's late goal, for a 1–0 win. The result qualified the underdog Ivory Coast for their debut
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, at South Africa's expense.


See also

*
List of Ivory Coast women's international footballers This is a list of Ivory Coast women's international footballers who have played for the Ivory Coast women's national football team. Players See also * Ivory Coast women's national football team References {{Association football player ...


References


External links


Profile
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Player Swedish domestic football stats
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* 1994 births Living people Women's association football forwards Ivorian women's footballers People from Gôh-Djiboua District Ivory Coast women's international footballers 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup players Damallsvenskan players Kristianstads DFF players Liga F players Levante UD Femenino players Dux Logroño players Ivorian expatriate women's footballers Ivorian expatriate sportspeople in Sweden Expatriate women's footballers in Sweden Ivorian expatriate sportspeople in Spain Expatriate women's footballers in Spain Primera Federación (women) players Segunda Federación (women) players {{IvoryCoast-women-footy-bio-stub