Kerolin

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Kerolin
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Kerolin with Brazil in 2023
Personal information
Full name Kerolin Nicoli Israel Ferraz [1]
Date of birth (1999-11-17) 17 November 1999 (age 24)
Place of birth Bauru, São Paulo, Brazil
Height 1.64 m (5 ft 5 in) [1]
Position(s) Forward
Team information
Current team
 North Carolina Courage
Number 9
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2016 Valinhos
2017 Ponte Preta 14 (2)
2017 Palmeiras 4 (0)
2018 Ponte Preta 10 (3)
Osasco Audax 3 (1)
2019 Palmeiras 0 (0)
2021 Madrid CFF 24 (5)
2022– North Carolina Courage 24 (13)
International career‡
2018 Brazil U-20
2018– Brazil 45 (6)
Medal record
Women's football
Representing Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil
Olympic Games
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2024 Paris
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 17:09, 11 June 2023 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 6 August 2024 (UTC)

Kerolin Nicoli Israel Ferraz (born 17 November 1999), commonly known as Kerolin, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a forward for the North Carolina Courage of the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) and the Brazil national team. In 2018, she was elected the breakout female player in the Brasileirão by the Brazilian Football Confederation, having scored 14 goals in 35 games for Ponte Preta. [2] [3] She was named the 2023 NWSL Most Valuable Player.

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Early life

Kerolin was raised by her mother and was estranged from her father. The family lived in Bauru, then moved to Campinas, where they lodged on a farm as they could not afford to pay rent. When she was 12 years old she was hospitalised with osteomyelitis and cellulitis in her leg and advised to stop playing contact sport. [4]

Club career

Kerolin was among several promising young footballers to emerge from the youth system of Valinhos Futebol Clube, a women's team run by the local authority's sports and leisure department and coached by Ana Lúcia Gonçalves. [5] Valinhos agreed a collaboration with Guarani FC in January 2016, to enter the 2016 Campeonato Paulista de Futebol Feminino as Guarani/Valinhos. [6]

When Associação Atlética Ponte Preta decided to form a women's section in 2017, they took over the Valinhos club, with 17-year-old Kerolin among the squad they inherited. [7] She was voted the best player of the 2017 Campeonato Paulista after scoring 10 goals in 21 games for semi-finalists Ponte Preta. [8]

She was then sent on loan to Corinthians/Audax for their successful 2017 Copa Libertadores Femenina campaign in October 2017. [8] She scored in a penalty shootout win over Colo-Colo following a 0–0 draw in the final at Estadio Arsenio Erico, Asunción. [9]

In 2018 she scored 14 goals in 35 games for Ponte Preta and was named Campeonato Brasileiro de Futebol Feminino "Revelação" (transl. Revelation) at the end of season awards. It was reported that Kerolin's consistently good performances for Ponte Preta and the youth national teams made her a transfer target for other Brazilian clubs, as well as for professional clubs in France and China. [10]

The combined Corinthians/Audax team which Kerolin had helped to win the 2017 Copa Libertadores split when Corinthians withdrew from that partnership and set up their own women's team. This left Audax with a slot at the 2018 Copa Libertadores Femenina but with no team. A deal was made for Valinhos (who had been playing as Ponte Preta in domestic competitions) to represent Audax at the Copa Libertadores. [11] Kerolin scored in a 4–0 win over Peñarol, but Audax were eliminated at the group stage.

Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras urgently required a women's team in December 2018, as they faced being banned from the lucrative men's Copa Libertadores under CONMEBOL rules which required all participants to run women's teams. A partnership agreement saw Palmeiras agree to fund the salaries of the Valinhos players and staff, who would use the Palmeiras name but continue to play and train in Valinhos. [12]

In January 2019 Kerolin agreed the transfer to Palmeiras, signing a one-year contract and joining up again with her previous coach Ana Lúcia Gonçalves. [13] The following month it was announced that Kerolin had failed a doping test taken after playing for Audax in a match at the 2018 Copa Libertadores Femenina. [14] Kerolin's sample revealed traces of GW1516. She remained provisionally suspended by CONMEBOL in July 2019, when Palmeiras's coach Gonçalves was sacked on suspicion of involvement in doping cases affecting the clubs she had worked at and inappropriately acting as a sports agent for the players in her charge. [15]

Madrid

In April 2021, having served her ban, Kerolin transferred to Madrid CFF. She joined several other Brazilian players at the Spanish Primera División club, and thanked God for the opportunity to restart her football career. [16]

North Carolina Courage

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Kerolin in a huddle after scoring in the 2023 NWSL Challenge Cup final

On 10 January 2022, Kerolin signed a three-year deal with the North Carolina Courage. [17] She made her club debut as a substitute in the opening Challenge Cup game against NJ/NY Gotham FC on 3 April. [18] She scored her first goal for the Courage in the Challenge Cup final, opening in a 2–1 win over the Washington Spirit and being named the most valuable player of the match. [19] She started 13 games in the 2022 regular season and recorded six goals and four assists. [20] At the end of the season, she was named to the NWSL Best XI second team. [21]

On 10 June 2023, Kerolin scored her first NWSL hat-trick in a 5–0 win over the Chicago Red Stars. [22] She contributed to the Courage's defense of the Challenge Cup, scoring in the final against Racing Louisville. [23] Her tally of 10 regular-season goals was second only to Golden Boot winner Sophia Smith, leading the Courage to finish the regular season third in the standings. [24] However, she suffered an anterior cruciate ligament tear days before the playoffs, and the Courage lost to eventual champions NJ/NY Gotham FC in the opening round. [25] After the season, Kerolin was given the NWSL Most Valuable Player award, the first South American player to do so. [26]

International career

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Kerolin in 2022

Kerolin was one of four Guarani/Valinhos players to be called up by the Brazil women's national under-17 football team for the 2016 South American U-17 Women's Championship. [27] She remained in the squad for the 2016 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup in Jordan. [28] In 2018, Kerolin scored two goals over three games she played representing the Brazil women's national under-20 football team at the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup in France. [29]

The senior Brazil women's national football team head coach Vadão called Kerolin up for the first time in September 2018, for a friendly match against England at Meadow Lane, Nottingham. [30] She earned her first cap in the match, appearing as a 56th-minute substitute for Debinha in Brazil's 1–0 defeat. [31]

After breaking into the senior national team, she was praised by veteran teammate Formiga: "Kerolin has a huge future. She's got so much talent and she doesn't have fear. If she keeps her feet on the ground, she can go as far as she wants. It's up to her." [32]

Kerolin was not eligible to play at the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup because she was provisionally suspended from football and still awaiting the final judgement from CONMEBOL in respect of her failed doping tests. [4]

On 6 January 2021, Kerolin's suspension ended and she was called into a national team training camp for evaluation by Brazil's new coach Pia Sundhage. [33] Sundhage said: "I heard a lot of good things about her [Kerolin]. She is an excellent player. Yes, she has been out of action for two years, but we will see how she will do." [34]

Career statistics

International goals

No.DateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition
1.20 September 2021 Amigão, Paraíba, Brazil Flag of Argentina.svg  Argentina 1–04–1 Friendly
2.26 November 2021 Arena da Amazônia, Manaus, BrazilFlag of India.svg  India 4–16–1 2021 International Women's Football Tournament of Manaus
3.28 November 2021Flag of Venezuela (state).svg  Venezuela 1–14–1
4.3–1
5.1 December 2021Flag of Chile.svg  Chile 1–02–0
6.6 August 2024 Stade Vélodrome, Marseille, France Flag of Spain.svg  Spain 4–14–2 2024 Summer Olympics

Honours

North Carolina Courage

Brazil

Individual

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