Kira Marie Bilecky Drago (born 12 April 1986) is a former

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby le ...

who played as a defender. Born in the United States, she has been a member of the Peru national team.

Early life

Bilecky was raised in

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She was born to an American father and a Peruvian mother.

High school and college career

Bilecky has attended the Woodrow Wilson High School in Washington, D.C., and the

Purdue University Purdue University is a public land-grant research university in West Lafayette, Indiana, and the flagship campus of the Purdue University system. The university was founded in 1869 after Lafayette businessman John Purdue donated land and money ...

West Lafayette West Lafayette () is a city in Wabash Township, Tippecanoe County, Indiana, United States, about northwest of the state capital of Indianapolis and southeast of Chicago. West Lafayette is directly across the Wabash River from its sister c ...

Indiana Indiana () is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States. It is the 38th-largest by area and the 17th-most populous of the 50 States. Its capital and largest city is Indianapolis. Indiana was admitted to the United States as the 19th s ...

Club career

Bilecky has played for

Åland United Åland United is a Finnish women's football club based in Lemland, Åland. They compete in the Kansallinen Liiga, the premier women's football league in Finland. In 2004 Åland's clubs Lemlands IF and IF Finströms Kamraterna decided to stren ...

in Finland.

International career

Bilecky joined Peru at the

2005 Bolivarian Games The XV Bolivarian Games (Spanish: ''Juegos Bolivarianos'') were a multi-sport event held between 12–21 August 2005 in Armenia and Pereira, Colombia. Some events took place in Cartagena de Indias and in Bogotá. The Games were organized by the ...

. She capped at senior level during the

2006 South American Women's Football Championship The 2006 South American Women's Football Championship (''Campeonato Sudamericano de Fútbol Femenino 2006'') was the fifth staging of the South American Women's Football Championship (now known as ''Copa América Femenina'') and determined the CO ...

Personal life

Bilecky is married to another woman.

References

External links

Purdue Boilermakers bio
1986 births Living people Peruvian women's footballers Women's association football defenders Åland United players Kansallinen Liiga players Peru women's international footballers Peruvian people of American descent Sportspeople of American descent Peruvian expatriate women's footballers Expatriate women's footballers in Finland Peruvian LGBT sportspeople Soccer players from Washington, D.C. American women's soccer players Purdue Boilermakers women's soccer players American sportspeople of Peruvian descent American expatriate women's soccer players American expatriate sportspeople in Finland LGBT people from Washington, D.C. American LGBT soccer players LGBT Hispanic and Latino American people {{US-footy-defender-stub