Kelly (footballer, born 1985)

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Kelly
Personal information
Full name Kelly Cristina Pereira da Silva
Date of birth (1985-05-15) 15 May 1985 (age 38)
Place of birth São Gonçalo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Height 1.64 m (5 ft 5 in)
Position(s) Forward
Team information
Current team
Fluminense
Number 8
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1997–2001 Vasco da Gama
2003–2014 CEPE-Caxias
2016 Flamengo 0 (0)
2017 America-RJ
2019– Fluminense
International career
2003–2004 Brazil
*Club domestic league appearances and goals
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 29 September 2003

Kelly Cristina Pereira da Silva (born 15 May 1985), commonly known as Kelly, is a Brazilian women's international footballer who plays as a forward. She was a member of the Brazil women's national football team. She was part of the team at the 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup. [1]

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Club career

Kelly played for CR Vasco da Gama, but was left without a club when they folded in 2001. She trained on her own for a period before joining Petrobras in mid-2003. [2]

International career

Youth

Kelly played for Brazil women's national under-20 football team at the 2002 and 2004 editions of the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup. [3] [4]

Senior

At the 2004 Athens Olympics, Kelly was part of Brazil's silver medal-winning squad. She appeared briefly as a substitute for Rosana in the 2–0 Group G defeat by the United States, but had to be substituted herself 12 minutes later after breaking her collarbone. [5]

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References

  1. "FIFA Women's World Cup USA 2003 - Technical Report" (PDF). FIFA Women's World Cup United States 2003. FIFA. 2003. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 December 2011. Retrieved 28 September 2007.
  2. "Kelly" (in Brazilian Portuguese). Universo Online . Retrieved 1 January 2023.
  3. Kelly FIFA competition record (archived)
  4. Leme de Arruda, Marcelo; do Nascimento Pereira, André (28 August 2014). "SELEÇÃO BRASILEIRA SUB-20 FEMININA (WOMENS' U-20 BRAZILIAN NATIONAL TEAM) 2002–2014". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Archived from the original on 10 July 2015. Retrieved 14 June 2015.
  5. "Kelly Cristina" (in Brazilian Portuguese). Brazilian Olympic Committee . Retrieved 1 January 2023.