Rosa Maria Gomes de Lima (born 2 May 1964), commonly known as Rosa, is a Brazilian retired

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 for the

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. She represented Brazil at the inaugural

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Career

An attacking right–back, de Lima joined

EC Radar Esporte Clube Radar was a Brazilian professional women's association football club, based in the Copacabana neighbourhood of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Founded in 1981, they enjoyed unprecedented success in the early days of women's football in Braz ...

in 1983 after playing for Eldorado in her native

Contagem Contagem () is a city in the center of the state of Minas Gerais, in Brazil. It is only from the capital, Belo Horizonte, and forms part of a metropolitan area with a population of 4.8 million. Geography The city belongs to the metropolitan meso ...

, then Benfica and Cruzeiro. Later that year she had her jaw broken in a notorious grudge match against Bangu. In the

1991 FIFA Women's World Cup The 1991 FIFA Women's World Cup was the inaugural FIFA Women's World Cup, the world championship for women's national association football teams. It took place in Guangdong, China from 16 to 30 November 1991. FIFA, football's international gove ...

, de Lima played in all three group games as Brazil were eliminated in the first round. Having moved on to Vasco da Gama, she was one of just two players in the squad who were not contracted to Radar. The 16–year–old

Pretinha Delma Gonçalves (born 19 May 1975), commonly known as Pretinha,In a June 199with Grant Wahl, Pretinha said her nickname means "little black girl" and that the reference to skin color is not considered problematic in Brazil. is a Brazilian profe ...

was the other. Rosa remained in the national squad for the next campaign at the

1995 South American Women's Football Championship The 1995 South American Women's Football Championship (''Campeonato Sudamericano de Fútbol Femenino 1995'') was held in Uberlândia, Brazil between January 8 and 22. It was the second staging of the South American Women's Football Championship an ...

. She was not included in the squad for the

1995 FIFA Women's World Cup The 1995 FIFA Women's World Cup, the second edition of the FIFA Women's World Cup, was held in Sweden and won by Norway women's national football team, Norway, who became the first European nation to win the Women's World Cup. The tournament fea ...

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* 1964 births Living people 1991 FIFA Women's World Cup players Women's association football defenders Brazil women's international footballers Brazilian women's footballers EC Radar players People from Contagem Footballers from Minas Gerais {{Brazil-footy-defender-1960s-stub