Brazil women's national football team
The Brazilian national football team of women is a representative selection of Brazilian football players for an international game.
The Brazilian women first emerged in 1986 in an international match and were the first South American team that denied recognized by FIFA internationals. Meanwhile, they are the dominant team in South America and are among the best teams worldwide. Best results have been second place behind the German team at the Women's Soccer World Cup in 2007 and two Olympic silver medals in 2004 and 2008, which was lost in the finals in each case against the United States. The player Marta was 2007 top scorer and best player of the tournament and scored the meantime, together with Birgit Prinz most World Cup goals.
In the first FIFA World Cup finals in 1991 and 1995, the team, however, different from still in the preliminary round. The Women's World Championship 1999 ended the team with third place and was eliminated in the Women's Football World Cup 2003 quarter-finals from.
In the Olympics, they reached a total of four times the semi-finals. In this they succeeded in the semifinals in 2008 for the first time a victory against the German women's national team. 2012 already came from the quarter-final against world champions Japan.
In the Americas Women's Championship, the Brazilian national team won the first four tournaments. In the only two finals in each case Argentina was defeated. Only in 2006 the Brazilian team second behind Argentina, against the decisive game of the finals was lost was (a real finale, there was not at this tournament as well as 1991, 2003 and 2010). In 2010, the title will be retrieved.
In recent years, however, a slight step backwards recorded. This is also reflected in the results of the Junior Women: In the years 2002 and 2004 U-20 national team was each WRC-fourth. In 2006, she reached the third place in 2008 and they still reached the quarter- finals, where the U-20 team was eliminated against Germany. In contrast, in 2010 and 2012 came from the already divided in the first round. The U-17 team resigned in 2008 in the first round of the World Cup and 2010 and 2012 in the quarterfinals of.
In March 2009, the team reached the first time the 2nd place in the FIFA world rankings, but fell in September after the German team to win the European title again, it was back to square 3. Due to the success of Japan Brazil dropped to third place in the 4 December 2012. The previous worst finish was Rank 8 March to October 2007.
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- 5.1 Germany
- 5.2 Switzerland
- 5.3 Austria
History
World cup
South American Championship
- 2003 - Winner
- 2006 - Second
- 2010 - Winner
Olympic games
- 2008: Second
- 2012: Quarter-finals
- 2016: qualified as hosts
Pan American Games
The Brazilian team has 2 wins record winner at the discharged since 1999, women's football tournament of the Pan American Games.
- 2007: First
- 2011: Second
South America games
- 2014: 3rd place
Current squad
Squad for the 2012 Olympics:
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Other Notable players
- Kátia (12 World Cup games for Brazil, 1999-2003)
- Pretinha (14 World Cup games for Brazil, 1991-1999, 2007)
- Sissi (along with Sun Wen scorer of the World Cup 1999, 9 World Cup games for Brazil, 1995-1999)
Coach
( 1) Unknown Trainer
Games against German -speaking teams
Results always from Brazilian point of view
Germany
Switzerland
So far, there were no games against the Swiss selection.
Austria
So far, there were no games against the Austrian selection.