Rafaelle Souza

Rafaelle Souza

Rafaelle at the 2016 Olympics
Personal information
Full name	Rafaelle Leone Carvalho de Souza[1]
Date of birth	18 June 1991
Place of birth	Cipó, Bahia, Brazil
Height	176 cm (5 ft 9 in)[1]
Playing position	Defender / Midfielder
Club information
Current team	São Francisco EC
Number	11[2]
College career
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2011–2013	Ole Miss Rebels	61	(44)
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2014	Houston Dash	16	(0)
2014–	São Francisco EC	1	(3)
National team^‡
2012–	Brazil[3]	8	(0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 01:25, 7 December 2014 (UTC). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 18:19, 23 June 2015 (UTC)

Rafaelle Leone Carvalho de Souza (born 18 June 1991), known as Rafaelle, is a Brazilian footballer who plays as a defender or midfielder for São Francisco EC and the Brazil national team. Rafaelle played for the University of Mississippi during her college soccer career in the United States and spent the 2014 season playing for Houston Dash of the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL).

Club career

In January 2014 Rafaelle was picked in the second round of the 2014 NWSL College Draft by expansion team Houston Dash. After playing one season she was waived by Houston Dash, but FC Kansas City acquired her rights the following week.^[4] In March 2015 Kansas City announced that Rafaelle would not play in the 2015 National Women's Soccer League season as she was in training with her national team Brazil.^[5]

International career

Rafaelle played for Brazil's youth teams at the inaugural 2008 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup in New Zealand and the 2010 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup held in Germany. Her senior debut came in December 2011, as a substitute in a 4–0 win over Chile at the 2011 Torneio Internacional Cidade de São Paulo de Futebol Feminino.^[6] She started her first match for Brazil's senior team in March 2012, against Canada.^[7]

In February 2015 Rafaelle was included in an 18-month residency programme intended to prepare Brazil's national team for the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup in Canada and the 2016 Rio Olympics.^[8]

At the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup, Rafaelle formed a makeshift center-back partnership with Mônica.^[9] They kept clean sheets in all three matches as Brazil qualified from their group without conceding a goal. In the second round match against Australia, Brazil exited the competition after losing 1–0. Rafaelle remained in Canada as part of the Brazilian selection for the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto.

International goals

Goal	Date	Location	Opponent	#	Score	Result	Competition
1	2015-07-22	Toronto	Mexico	1.2	2–1	4–2	2015 Pan American Games
2				2.2	4–2

References

1. "List of Players - Brazil" (PDF). FIFA. 6 July 2015. p. 2. Retrieved 19 July 2015.
2. "Confederação Brasileira de Futebol súmula on-line - CBF, jogo 22" (PDF) (in Portuguese). Brazilian Football Confederation. 29 September 2014. p. 1. Retrieved 19 July 2015.
3. "Profile". FIFA.com. Retrieved 23 June 2015.
4. "FC Kansas City Lands Rafaelle Souza". National Women's Soccer League. 15 September 2014. Retrieved 19 July 2015.
5. Moreno, Daniel (11 March 2015). "Katrina Gorry and Rafaelle Souza to stay with their national teams this season". FC Kansas City. Retrieved 19 July 2015.
6. Leme de Arruda, Marcelo (5 March 2014). "Seleção Brasileira Feminina (Brazilian National Women's Team) 2011-2013" (in Portuguese). Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 20 June 2015.
7. "Souza makes first start with Brazilian National Team". Retrieved 7 December 2014.
8. Kennedy, Paul (26 May 2015). "Road to Vancouver: Brazil's Formiga picked for sixth time". Soccer America. Retrieved 11 July 2015.
9. Cullen, Ray; Lauletta, Dan (9 June 2015). "Women's World Cup Day 4 — Vero, Spain Debut". The Equalizer. Retrieved 19 July 2015.

External links

• Rafaelle Souza – FIFA competition record
• Rafaelle Souza profile at Soccerway
• Profile at soccerdonna.de (German)
• Rafaelle Souza – 2015 Pan American Games profile