Kátia Cilene Teixeira da Silva

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Kátia Cilene Teixeira da Silva (born February 18, 1977 in Rio de Janeiro ), usually called Kátia for short , is a former Brazilian soccer player who has played for clubs from six countries.

Club career

Little has been published about the beginnings of Kátia's football career. What is known, however, is that she was also an excellent active athlete , especially over 100 m hurdles and in the heptathlon . She only gave up this second sport when, at the turn of the year 1995/1996, national coach Zé Duarte gave her a firm commitment to take part in the Olympic tournament in Atlanta with the country's female soccer players .
At that time she played football for CR Vasco da Gama , later for São Paulo FC , with which she won the Brazilian championship in 1997. In 2001 the very dangerous striker moved to the San Jose CyberRays in the newly created US professional league WUSA ; In her first year in San José , she was the top scorer, appointed to the all-star team and awarded the prize ("Espy") for the best female soccer player of 2002 by the sports TV broadcaster ESPN . In the United States, she had to undergo surgery for an abdominal tumor the following season . After the league was discontinued in 2003, Kátia moved to Spain (a season at CFF Estudiantes Huelva and then until the end of 2006 for the UD Levante ).

In January 2007 Olympique Lyon brought the Brazilian to France ; Kátia had her most successful time there, even if the adaptation did not go smoothly. In her first 18 months she only played 17 games in which she scored 13 goals and celebrated two national championship titles. In 2008 she also won the French cup competition at the side of her compatriot Simone , although she was substituted on in the final only a good quarter of an hour before the end. In the following two seasons, however, she played 41 of the 44 league games and had an excellent success rate with 44 hits. In the 2008/09 season she won the top scorer's crown in Division 1 Féminine ahead of her teammate Sandrine Brétigny , a year later she finished third in this ranking - and in these two years she was French champion with Olympique. Nevertheless, the club did not extend their contract afterwards, and Kátia Cilene Teixeira da Silva was also not used at the season highlight, the Champions League final in 2010 , in which Lyon Turbine Potsdam was defeated in the penalty shootout. As a result, one of the most successful orienteering goalscorer of all time (85 goals in competitive matches) left Lyon.

In 2010/11 she played for Paris Saint-Germain , also proved her scoring ability at the capital club (twelve goals) and was runner-up with PSG. Then she moved to Russia to FC Zorky Krasnogorsk , where she again won the runner-up in 2012. In 2013 she played for Sundsvalls DFF in the second Swedish women's division ; after Sundsvall's descent, Kátia returned to her country of origin. There she joined the Botafogo FR , for which the now 37-year-old came to a few short assignments in 2014.

Club stations

  • CR Vasco da Gama (around 1995)
  • São Paulo FC (1997 at the latest)
  • San Jose CyberRays (2001-2003)
  • CFF Estudiantes Huelva (2003/04)
  • Levante UD (2004 – December 2006)
  • Olympique Lyon (January 2007-2010)
  • Paris Saint-Germain FC (2010/11)
  • FC Zorky Krasnogorsk (2011-2012)
  • Sundsvalls DFF (2013)
  • Botafogo FR (2014)

In the national team

Kátia, who played in a Brazilian youth team for the first time at the age of 14, took part in four World Cup finals with the women's national team ( 1995 without a game, 1999 , 2003 and 2007 ), finishing third in 1999 and second in 2007 - the coach changed in the final against Germany she only entered shortly before the final whistle - and scored a total of six goals in World Cup finals . She was also in 1996 and 2000 respectively in the Seleção , which lost the game for the bronze medal in the Olympic women's soccer competition; when Brazil won Olympic silver in 2004, she was missing due to a torn ligament .

For this she won the gold medal at the Pan American Games in 2007 and the title of military world champion in 2011 with the national military selection of her country . In view of this long international career, the indication of only 32 A-internationals, in which she is said to have scored 27 goals, seems low, although she had strong competitors in her position at the top of the attack with Pretinha , Marta , Cristiane and others.

Palmarès

  • Women's United Soccer Association's top scorer and election to the All-Star Team : 2002
  • Brazilian champion: 1997
  • French champion: 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010
  • French cup winner: 2008
  • Division 1 Féminine top scorer : 2009
  • Olympic semi-finalist: 1996, 2000
  • Vice World Champion: 2007
  • Pan American Games Winner: 2007
  • Military World Champion: 2011

Web links

Notes and evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Based on her portrait from 2007 on uol.com.br, which, however, was named as her date of birth with “6. January 1990 in Duque de Caxias “indicates different from other sources.
  2. ↑ " 20 years since the first women's championship title " from June 29, 2017 at saopaulofc.net
  3. ↑ see the article "Brazil's Katia is ready" from September 16, 2003 at fifa.com
  4. ↑ see the message from August 2010 at Le Parisien
  5. ↑ see the scorer statistics at olangelles.com
  6. ↑ according to this data sheet at zerozero.pt
  7. ↑ Oscar Valporto: Atleta, substitutivo feminino: vinte mulheres brasileiras nos Jogos Olímpicos. Casa da Palavra, Rio de Janeiro 2006, ISBN 978-8-5773-4016-3 , p. 285 ( online excerpt )
  8. ↑ Brazilian Olympic line-up for Sydney at uol.com.br
  9. ↑ See the article “Marinheira, Kátia Cilene bate continência e conduz Seleção” of July 16, 2011 at terra.com.br; one of her goals from the final of this military World Cup can be found in the live broadcast on TV Brasil .
personal data
SURNAME Teixeira da Silva, Kátia Cilene
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kátia (stage name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH 18th February 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Rio de Janeiro