Elane Rego dos Santos
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Elane dos Santos Rego | ||
Date of birth | 4 June 1968 | ||
Place of birth | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | ||
Height | 1.74 m (5 ft 8+1⁄2 in)[1] | ||
Position(s) | Central defender | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
EC Radar | |||
Euroexport | |||
Uberlândia Football Club | |||
National team‡ | |||
Brazil | |||
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 22:52, 17 April 2013 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 22:52, 17 April 2013 (UTC) |
Elane dos Santos Rego (born 4 June 1968), commonly known as Elane, is a Brazilian retired footballer who played as a central defender for the Brazil women's national football team.
She represented Brazil at the FIFA Women's World Cup in 1991, 1995 and 1999; as well as in the inaugural Olympic women's football tournament in 1996.
Career[]
Elane was part of the EC Radar club team who represented Brazil at the 1988 FIFA Women's Invitation Tournament in Guangdong and finished in third place.[2]
In the 1991 FIFA Women's World Cup Elane scored Brazil's first ever World Cup goal in their 1–0 opening group match win over Japan.[3]
An aggressive central defender, Elane remained a key player for Brazil at the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup, by which time she was playing for São Paulo FC.[4] A tournament preview on the SoccerTimes.com website described her as a strong tackler with modest speed.[5] At the 1995 FIFA Women's World Cup in Sweden, English journalist Pete Davies, covering the tournament for The Independent, caricatured Elane's committed approach:[6]
At the back, they [Brazil] had a clogger named Elane who'd kick anything – waiters, bus conductors, passing dogs, no one was safe, in another game she even managed to get herself booked after the final whistle.
After her football career Elane worked as a bus driver in her native Rio.[7] She was named equal seventh (with Meg) in the International Federation of Football History & Statistics (IFFHS) South America's best Women's Footballer of the Century list.[8]
References[]
- ^ "Elane". Sports-Reference.com. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 18 April 2013.
- ^ Fernandes, Andréa Karl. "A história do futebol feminino" (PDF) (in Portuguese). Sindicato dos Treinsdores de Futebol Profissional do Estado do Rio de Janeiro. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 18 April 2013.
- ^ "Japan - Brazil 0:1 (0:1". FIFA. Missing or empty
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(help) - ^ "FIFA Women's World Cup 1999 squads". FIFA. 1999. Archived from the original (TXT) on 17 December 2000. Retrieved 29 September 2019.
- ^ "USA 1999: Brazil". SoccerTimes.com. 1999. Archived from the original on 11 January 2011. Retrieved 18 April 2013.
- ^ Davies, Pete (1996). I Lost My Heart To The Belles. London: Mandarin. p. 315. ISBN 0-7493-2085-0.
- ^ "Futebol feminino: O golaço de Michael Jackson na vida!". Vermelho Portal (in Portuguese). 6 March 2012. Retrieved 18 April 2013.
- ^ "South America's best Women's Footballer of the Century". IFFHS. Archived from the original on 22 February 2012. Retrieved 18 April 2012.
External links[]
- Elane Rego dos Santos – FIFA competition record (archived)
- 1968 births
- Living people
- Footballers from Rio de Janeiro (city)
- Olympic footballers of Brazil
- Footballers at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- 1995 FIFA Women's World Cup players
- 1991 FIFA Women's World Cup players
- Women's association football defenders
- Brazil women's international footballers
- Brazilian women's footballers
- EC Radar players
- 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup players
- São Paulo FC (women) players
- Brazilian football defender stubs
- Brazilian women's football biography stubs