Janaína Queiroz Cavalcante (born 2 April 1988), known as Janaína or just Jana, is a Brazilian

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who plays for 3B da Amazônia. A

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, her strongest attributes are marking and heading.

Club career

Jana began playing

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and progressed to playing football for her local team União Messejana, where she won the Ceará state league in 2005. In 2008 she attended a trial for Santos alongside 400 hopefuls and was one of two players to be signed up. Jana subsequently played for

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, Zorky Krasnogorsk, São José and

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before returning to Santos in 2015. In 2017, after a spell with Corinthians/Audax, she signed with

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for the 2017–18 Campeonato Nacional de Futebol Feminino season and quickly became an important player for the club. After short stints in her homeland with

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and Grêmio, Jana returned to Portuguese football in August 2021, agreeing to join Famalicão. After leaving the latter in 2022, she began the 2023 season nursing an injury, before signing for

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on 3 March. On 29 January 2024, Santos announced the return of Jana for a third spell.

International career

Jana was part of the Brazil under-20 selection at the 2008 South American U-20 Women's Championship and subsequent

2008 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup The 2008 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup was the 4th edition of the tournament. It was held in Chile between 19 November and 7 December 2008. Sixteen teams, comprising representatives from all six confederations, took part in the final competition, i ...

. In December 2009, she won four

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for the senior

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at the

2009 International Women's Football Tournament of City of São Paulo The 2009 Torneio Internacional Cidade de São Paulo was the first edition of the Torneio Internacional Cidade de São Paulo de Futebol Feminino, an invitational Women's association football, women's football tournament held annually in Brazil. I ...

, including a debut against

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. She made a further appearance for Brazil in September 2013, in a 1–0 win over

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at the

2013 Valais Women's Cup The Valais Women's Cup is a two-day international women football tournament that features four women national teams. It is played at the Stade du Lussy in Châtel-St-Denis and at the Stade St-Germain in Savièse, Switzerland. This tournament i ...

Career statistics

International

Honours

Santos *

Campeonato Paulista de Futebol Feminino The Campeonato Paulista de Futebol Feminino (''Paulista Women's Football Championship'', in English) is the women's football state championship of São Paulo State, and is contested since 1987. Format There is no predetermined format for the ...

: 2010, 2011 *

Copa Libertadores Femenina The CONMEBOL Libertadores Femenina, commonly known as "Copa Libertadores Femenina" ( Portuguese: ''Copa/Taça Libertadores Feminina''), is an annual international women's association football club competition in South America. It is organized by th ...

2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

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 ...

Copa do Brasil de Futebol Feminino The Copa do Brasil de Futebol Feminino () is a Brazilian Women's football competition organized by the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF). It was designed as an equivalent to the men's Copa do Brasil, with the first edition being played in 2 ...

2008 2008 was designated as: *International Year of Languages *International Year of Planet Earth *International Year of the Potato *International Year of Sanitation The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued throu ...

*: 2024 São José *

2013 2013 was the first year since 1987 to contain four unique digits (a span of 26 years). 2013 was designated as: *International Year of Water Cooperation *International Year of Quinoa Events January * January 5 – 2013 Craig, Alask ...

Corinthians/Audax *

2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

Braga *

Supertaça de Portugal Feminina The Supertaça de Portugal Feminina () is an annual Portuguese football tournament played since 2015. Originally, the Super Cup was played between the winners of the Portuguese league, Campeonato Nacional Feminino, and the holders of the Portug ...

: 2018 *

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 and part of the various women's football competitions in ...

: 2018–19 * Taça de Portugal Feminina: 2019–20

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