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Maurine Dornelles Gonçalves
Maurine Dorneles Gonçalves (born 14 January 1986), commonly known as Maurine, is a Brazilian former footballer who played as a defender or midfielder for the Brazil women's national team. Due to her versatility, she operated in a number of positions throughout her career, but was most often used as a full-back or defensive midfielder. She was part of Brazil's silver medal-winning squad at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and also played at the 2011 and 2015 editions of the FIFA Women's World Cup, as well as the 2012 London Olympics. At club level Maurine enjoyed three spells with Santos and was hurt when the male parent club disbanded the female section in 2012. She also spent part of the 2011 season with American Women's Professional Soccer (WPS) franchise Western New York Flash. After the 2012 demise of Santos, Maurine and nine other former Santos players agreed to join Centro Olímpico. She also represented Ferroviária and Flamengo, before returning to the re-established San ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2011 FIFA Women's World Cup
The 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup was the sixth FIFA Women's World Cup competition, the world championship for List of women's national association football teams, women's national association football, football teams. It was held from 26 June to 17 July 2011 in Germany, which won the right to host the event in October 2007. Japan women's national football team, Japan won the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup Final, final against the United States women's national soccer team, United States on a penalty shoot-out (association football), penalty shoot-out following a 2–2 draw after Extra time (association football), extra time and became the first Asian Football Confederation, Asian team to win a senior FIFA World Cup. The matches were played in nine stadiums in nine host cities around the country, with the final played at the Commerzbank Arena in Frankfurt. Sixteen teams were selected for participation via a 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification, worldwide qualification tournament ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
