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Gi Santos
Personal information
Full name Giovanna dos Santos Nascimento
Date of birth (1997-04-22) 22 April 1997 (age 27)
Place of birth Campo Limpo Paulista, São Paulo, Brazil
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)[1]
Position(s) Defender
Team information
Current team
Damaiense
Number 22
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2016 Centro Olímpico
2016-2017 Foz Cataratas
2017-2019 Sport Recife
2019 Foz Cataratas
2019 Independiente Santa Fe
2020 F.C. Famalicão
2021 Beşiktaş 11 (2)
2022 Avaldsnes 1 (0)
2022– Damaiense 7 (1)
International career
2016 Brazil U20
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 00:22, 16 May 2023 (UTC)

Giovanna dos Santos Nascimento (born 22 April 1997), known as Gi Santos, is a Brazilian women's association football defender,[2][3] who plays for Damaiense in Portugal's Campeonato Nacional Feminino.[4] She previously played for Avaldsnes IL in Norway's Toppserien,[5] and played in Brazil, Colombia, Portugal, and Turkey.[2][6][1] She was a member of the Brazil women's national U20 team.[7]

Private life

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She was born in Campo Limpo Paulista, São Paulo, Brazil on 22 April 1997.[1][3][7]

Playing career

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Club

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Gi Santos started her career at the professional women's football club Centro Olímpico in São Paulo in 2016. The same year, she transferred to Foz Cataratas in Foz do Iguaçu Paraná.[2] She took part at the 2016 Copa Libertadores Femenina, and scored a goal.[8] In 2017, she joined Sport Recife in Recife, Pernambuco. After two years, she returned to Foz do Iguaçu for a while. She went to Colombia to play for the transferred to the Bogotá-nased club Independiente Santa Fe. In 2020, she signed with F.C. Famalicão in Vila Nova de Famalicão, Portıgal.[2]

In the beginning of August 2021, she moved to Turkey and joined Beşiktaş J.K.,[6] which became champion of the 2020–21 Turkcell League,[9] and so was to play in the 2021–22 UEFA Champions League qualifying rounds.[10] She played in two matches of the 2021–22 UEFA Women's Champions League qualifying rounds.[11][12]

International

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Gi Santos was a member of the Brazil women's national U20 team.[7]

Honours

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Foz Cataratas
Copa Libertadores Femenina
  • Third place (1): 2016

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Gi Santos" (in Portuguese). BTS Agency. Retrieved 21 August 2021.
  2. ^ a b c d "Gi Santos, jogadora do Famalicão, concede entrevista ao MF". Mercado do Futbol (in Portuguese). 17 February 2020. Retrieved 21 August 2021.
  3. ^ a b "Giovanna Dos Santos Nascimento". be Sport. Retrieved 21 August 2021.
  4. ^ Laezza, Miguel (3 February 2022). "Liga BPI: as movimentações no mercado de transferências de inverno" [Liga BPI: the moves in the winter transfer market]. O Jogo (in European Portuguese). Retrieved 16 May 2023.
  5. ^ "Ny forsvarsspiller" (Press release) (in Norwegian Bokmål). Avaldsnes IL. 14 July 2022. Retrieved 16 May 2023.
  6. ^ a b "Giovanna Dos Santos Nascimento ile Mariana Dos Santos Almeida, Beşiktaş Vodafone Kadın Futbol Takımımızda" (in Turkish). Beşiktaş JK. 7 August 2021. Retrieved 21 August 2021.
  7. ^ a b c "Entrevista: Giovanna Santos assina contrato com clube Português". Central Esportiva (in Portuguese). 18 January 2020. Retrieved 21 August 2021.
  8. ^ "Una jornada de goleadas en la Copa Libertadores Femenina". Conmebol (in Spanish). 10 December 2016. Retrieved 23 August 2021.
  9. ^ "Turkcell Kadın Futbol Ligi'nde şampiyon Beşiktaş JK Vodafone Kadın Futbol Takımı" (in Turkish). Türkiye Futbol Federasyonu. 5 May 2021. Retrieved 23 August 2021.
  10. ^ "Beşiktaş JK Vodafone Kadın Futbol Takımı, grubunu 3. bitirdi" (in Turkish). Türkiye Futbol Federasyonu. 21 August 2021. Retrieved 23 August 2021.
  11. ^ "St.Pölten (AUT) 7-0 Beşiktaş (TUR)". UEFA Women's Champions League. Retrieved 24 December 2021.
  12. ^ "Beşiktaş (TUR) 4-0 Kamenica Sasa (MKD)". UEFA Women's Champions League. Retrieved 24 August 2021.
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