Márcia Taffarel (born 15 March 1968) is a Brazilian former

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...

midfielder A midfielder is an outfield position in association football. Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...

who played for the

Brazil women's national football team The Brazil women's national football team (Portuguese: ''Seleção Brasileira Feminina de futebol'') represents Brazil in international women's football and is run by the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF). It has participated in eight ed ...

. She competed at 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 ...

and the

1996 Summer Olympics The 1996 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, also known as Atlanta 1996 and commonly referred to as the Centennial Olympic Games) were an international multi-sport event held from July 19 to August 4, 1996, in Atlanta, ...

, playing 5 matches. At the club level, she played for

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

and

Saad EC Saad Esporte Clube – since 2009 commonly MS/Saad – is a Brazilian association football club founded 1961 in São Caetano do Sul on the outskirts of São Paulo. In the latter part of the first decade of the 21st century, the club established an ...

.Women's Olympic Rosters
Soccer America, 18 July 1996

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* * * 1968 births Living people Brazilian women's footballers Place of birth missing (living people) Footballers at the 1996 Summer Olympics Olympic footballers of Brazil Women's association football midfielders 1991 FIFA Women's World Cup players Brazil women's international footballers Saad Esporte Clube (women) players 1995 FIFA Women's World Cup players {{Brazil-women-footy-bio-stub

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