Mayara da Fonseca Bordin (born 4 September 1987), commonly known as Mayara or May, is a Brazilian former

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who played for

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clubs in Brazil, Sweden and Spain, and for the Brazil women's national football team.

Club career

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Mayara transferred from Centro Olímpico to Tyresö in January 2014, as one of four Brazilians to join the Swedish club. Mayara was an unused substitute in Tyresö's 4–3 defeat by

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in the 2014 UEFA Women's Champions League Final. Tyresö became insolvent in 2014 and were kicked out of the

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season, expunging all their results and making all their players

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s. The Stockholm County Administrative Board published the players' salaries, showing Mayara was a middle range earner at SEK 30 980 per month. She returned to Centro Olímpico for the club's 2014 Campeonato Brasileiro de Futebol Feminino campaign. Following two seasons in which she played in Spain, for

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and

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, respectively, Mayara decided to retire from playing in 2019 to take an administrative role with Club Athletico Paranaense.

International career

Mayara made her senior debut for Brazil in March 2013, in a 1–1

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draw with

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. In July 2013 she represented Brazil at the

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, Russia.

References

External links

FIU player profile

Centro Olímpico player profile
* 1987 births Living people Brazilian women's footballers Brazil women's international footballers Tyresö FF players Damallsvenskan players Zaragoza CFF players Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in the United States Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Sweden Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Spain FIU Panthers women's soccer players Expatriate women's footballers in Sweden Expatriate women's soccer players in the United States Expatriate women's footballers in Spain Associação Desportiva Centro Olímpico players Footballers from Santa Catarina (state) Women's association football midfielders Feather River College alumni Sport Club Corinthians Paulista (women) players Universiade bronze medalists for Brazil Universiade medalists in football Málaga CF Femenino players {{Brazil-women-footy-bio-stub