Thaisa de Moraes Rosa Moreno (born 17 December 1988), commonly known as Thaisa or Isa Moreno, is a Brazilian

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who plays as a midfielder for

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and the Brazil women's national team. She previously played for

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, while her earlier career saw Thaisa play a short spell with Swedish

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club Tyresö FF in 2014 and with Sky Blue FC of the

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in 2018.

Club career

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Thaisa transferred from Ferroviária to Tyresö FF in January 2014, as one of four Brazilians to join the Swedish club. Thaisa was a late substitute in Tyresö's 4–3 2014 UEFA Women's Champions League Final defeat by Wolfsburg. Shortly afterwards Tyresö were declared insolvent and kicked out of the

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season, expunging all their results and making all their players free agents. On 13 December 2017, she signed with Sky Blue FC in the

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. After making eight appearances with the club she was released on 25 July 2018, so she could pursue overseas opportunities. Switched to newly formed

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in the Seria A for the 2018–19 season. On 26 July 2019, Thaisa joined CD Tacón in the Spanish

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. After two years of playing in Madrid, Thaisa returned to Italian football and signed for

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on the summer of 2021.

International career

Thaisa made her senior debut for Brazil in September 2013, in a 1–0 defeat by New Zealand in

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, Switzerland. She scored her first national team goal in Brazil's 2–0 win over Chile at the

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International goals

Honours

Individual

* Serie A Goal of the Year: 2019

Notes

References

External links

FIU player profile
* 1988 births Living people Brazilian women's footballers Brazil women's international footballers Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in the United States Tyresö FF players Footballers at the 2016 Summer Olympics 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup players Sportspeople from Paraná (state) Women's association football midfielders Associação Ferroviária de Esportes (women) players Footballers at the 2015 Pan American Games Feather River College alumni FIU Panthers women's soccer players Olympic footballers of Brazil National Women's Soccer League players NJ/NY Gotham FC players Grindavík women's football players A.C. Milan Women players Clube de Regatas do Flamengo (women) players Expatriate women's footballers in Italy Expatriate women's footballers in Spain Brazilian expatriate women's footballers Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Italy Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Spain Serie A (women's football) players 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup players Real Madrid Femenino players A.S. Roma (women) players Damallsvenskan players Pan American Games medalists in football Pan American Games gold medalists for Brazil Medalists at the 2015 Pan American Games Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Iceland Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Sweden Expatriate women's footballers in Iceland Expatriate women's footballers in Sweden {{Brazil-women-footy-bio-stub