Neide Marina Fidalgo Alves Mateus Simões (born 19 July 1988) is a Portuguese footballer, who plays for Valadares Gaia and played 60 times for the Portugal women's national football team between 2007 and 2017. Simões plays as a goalkeeper.

Club career

Simões played for 10 years at Portuguese

Campeonato Nacional Feminino The Campeonato Nacional Feminino (English: Women's National Championship), also known as Liga BPI for sponsorship reasons, is the top-tier women's association football league in Portugal. It is run by the Portuguese Football Federation and began ...

club Escola, before transferring to German

Frauen-Bundesliga The Frauen-Bundesliga (German for ''Women's Federal League''), currently known as the FLYERALARM Frauen-Bundesliga for sponsorship reasons, is the top level of league competition for women's association football in Germany. In 1990 the German Foo ...

team SC 07 Bad Neuenahr in July 2012. Simões had been scouted by SC 07 whilst playing in the

2012 Algarve Cup The 2012 Algarve Cup was the nineteenth edition of the Algarve Cup, an invitational women's football tournament held annually in Portugal. It began on 29 February and ended on 7 March 2012. Format The twelve invited teams were split into three ...

, and signed a one-year contract. Simões later played for

1. FC Köln 1. Fußball-Club Köln 01/07 e. V., commonly known as simply FC Köln () or FC Cologne in English, is a German professional football club based in Cologne in North Rhine-Westphalia. It was formed in 1948 as a merger of the clubs ''Kölner Ballspi ...

, before returning to Portugal to play for Campeonato Nacional Feminino club Valadares Gaia F.C. In total, she spent two years in Germany. In 2019, Simões helped Valadares to beat

Clube de Albergaria Clube de Albergaria is a Portuguese women's football team from Albergaria-a-Velha (Aveiro District Aveiro District ( pt, Distrito de Aveiro, or ) is located in the central coastal region of Portugal. The capital of the district is the city o ...

in a penalty shoot-out to progress to the Portuguese Women's Cup Final. There, Valadares played against Benfica. They lost the match 4–0, and Simões went off injured after 86 minutes, and had to be replaced in goal by an outfield player. In March 2020, Simões was nominated for the best player award at the Gala Quinas de Ouro.

International career

Simões made 17 appearances for Portugal under-19s between 2005 and 2007. She made her international debut for Portugal women's national football team in 2007, and has made 60 appearances for the senior team. She played in the Algarve Cup in 2012,

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, and

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Personal life

Simões is from Viseu, Portugal. Aside from football, she has worked as a CrossFit trainer.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Simoes, Neide 1988 births Living people Footballers from Viseu Portuguese women's footballers Women's association football goalkeepers SC 07 Bad Neuenahr players 1. FC Köln (women) players Valadares Gaia F.C. (women) players Portugal women's international footballers Portuguese expatriate women's footballers Portuguese expatriate sportspeople in Germany Expatriate women's footballers in Germany