Ángela Patricia Cárdenas Román (born 19 November 1993) is a Bolivian

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby lea ...

who plays as a

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for Spanish club

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and the Bolivia women's national team.

Early life

Cárdenas hails from the

Santa Cruz Department Santa Cruz () is the largest of the nine constituent departments of Bolivia, occupying about one-third (33.74%) of the country's territory. With an area of , it is slightly smaller than Japan or the US state of Montana. It is located in the ...

Club career

San Martín de Porres

Cárdenas scored a goal during the

2015 Copa Libertadores Femenina The 2015 Copa Libertadores Femenina was the 7th edition of the Copa Libertadores Femenina, South America's premier women's club football tournament organized by CONMEBOL. The tournament was held in Colombia, from 28 October to 8 November 2015. It ...

. She won the Bolivian football championship the next year.

International career

Cárdenas played for Bolivia at senior level in three

Copa América Femenina The Copa América Femenina (''Copa América Feminina'' in Portuguese), previously the ''Campeonato Sudamericano de Fútbol Femenino'' (''Campeonato Sul-Americano de Futebol Feminino''), usually shortened to ''Sudamericano Femenino'' (''Sul-America ...

editions (

2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...

and

2018 Events January * January 1 – Bulgaria takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, after the Estonian presidency. * January 4 – SPLM-IO rebels loyal to Chan Garang Lual start a raid against Juba, capital of ...

References

1993 births Living people Women's association football midfielders Bolivian women's footballers 21st-century Bolivian sportswomen Sportspeople from Santa Cruz Department (Bolivia) Bolivia women's international footballers Bolivian expatriate women's footballers Bolivian expatriate sportspeople in Spain Expatriate women's footballers in Spain {{Bolivia-women-footy-bio-stub