Laura José Ramos Luís (born 15 August 1992) is a

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forward who plays for

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club

SC Braga Sporting Clube de Braga () (), commonly known as Sporting de Braga or just Braga, is a Portuguese sports club from the city of Braga. It is best known for the professional football team playing in the Primeira Liga, the top flight of Portuguese f ...

and the

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Club career

In May 2017, Luís ended a four-year spell in German football by signing for

. By March 2018 Luís had already scored 20 goals when she agreed an extension to her contract with Braga. In April her acrobatic

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goal against Boavista went viral and was compared to a celebrated goal which fellow Madeiran

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had recently scored against Juventus. She finished as the top goalscorer of the 2017–18 Campeonato Nacional de Futebol Feminino, with 32 goals.

International career

Luís scored on her senior debut for the

on 17 September 2011, an 8–0

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win over

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. She was named by

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in the 23-player Portugal squad for

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in the Netherlands.

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1992 births Living people MSV Duisburg (women) players Portuguese women's footballers Portugal women's international footballers Expatriate women's footballers in Germany Portuguese expatriate sportspeople in Germany Women's association football forwards Madeiran footballers FCR 2001 Duisburg players FF USV Jena players USL W-League (1995–2015) players Frauen-Bundesliga players Expatriate women's soccer players in the United States Campeonato Nacional de Futebol Feminino players S.C. Braga (women's football) players Sportspeople from Funchal UEFA Women's Euro 2017 players {{Portugal-women-footy-bio-stub