Suzane Pires Cardozo (born Suzane Lira Pires; 17 August 1992), simply known as Suzane,
is a Brazilian-born Portuguese professional
footballer
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who plays as a
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 ...
for
Associação Ferroviária de Esportes
Associação Ferroviária de Esportes, commonly referred to as simply Ferroviária, is a Brazilian association football club in Araraquara, São Paulo. They currently play in the Série D, the fourth tier of Brazilian football, as well as in the ...
and the
Portugal women's national team.
Early life
Suzane was born and raised in
São Paulo
São Paulo (, ; Portuguese for 'Saint Paul') is the most populous city in Brazil, and is the capital of the state of São Paulo, the most populous and wealthiest Brazilian state, located in the country's Southeast Region. Listed by the GaWC a ...
.
Club career
Suzane has played for the
Boston Breakers
The Boston Breakers were an American professional soccer club based in the Boston neighborhood of Allston. The team competed in the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL). They replaced the original Breakers, who competed in the defunct Women's ...
in the
National Women's Soccer League
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.
She was waived by the Boston Breakers in October 2015.
International career
Besides
Brazil
Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...
, Suzane was also
eligible to play for
Portugal
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through her paternal grandfather, who was born in
Braga
Braga ( , ; cel-x-proto, Bracara) is a city and a municipality, capital of the northwestern Portuguese district of Braga and of the historical and cultural Minho Province. Braga Municipality has a resident population of 193,333 inhabitants (in ...
. She made her senior debut on 26 November 2015 in a 6–1 win over
Montenegro
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Personal life
Suzane is married to Brazilian male footballer Gauther Martins Cardozo, with whom she has a son, who is also called Gauther.
References
External links
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Boston Breakers player profile
1992 births
Living people
Portuguese women's footballers
Women's association football midfielders
Southern Connecticut State University alumni
College women's soccer players in the United States
Boston Breakers players
National Women's Soccer League players
Portugal women's international footballers
Portuguese expatriate women's footballers
Portuguese expatriate sportspeople in the United States
Expatriate women's soccer players in the United States
Footballers from São Paulo
Brazilian women's footballers
Associação Portuguesa de Desportos players
Santos FC (women) players
Associação Ferroviária de Esportes (women) players
Brazilian expatriate women's footballers
Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in the United States
Brazilian people of Portuguese descent
UEFA Women's Euro 2022 players
UEFA Women's Euro 2017 players
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