Suzane Pires
Personal information
Full name Suzane Pires Cardozo[1]
Birth name Suzane Lira Pires[2]
Date of birth (1992-08-17) 17 August 1992[3]
Place of birth São Paulo, Brazil[3]
Height 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)[3]
Position(s) Midfielder[3]
Team information
Current team
 Santos
Youth career
Juventus-SP
College career
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2010–2013 Southern Connecticut Owls 70 (25)
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2015 Boston Breakers 12 (0)
2015 Portuguesa 3 (0)
2016–2017 Santos 17 (0)
2018–2020 Marítimo 0 (0)
2021–2023 Ferroviária 44 (5)
2024– Santos 0 (0)
International career‡
2015– Portugal 28 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 20:18, 9 January 2024 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 17 February 2023

Suzane Pires Cardozo (born Suzane Lira Pires; 17 August 1992), simply known as Suzane,[3] is a Brazilian-born Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Santos and the Portugal women's national team.

Early life

Suzane was born and raised in São Paulo,[4] but moved to Stuttgart at young age.[1] After representing Juventus-SP as a youth,[1] she was offered a scholarship at the Southern Connecticut State University, playing for the Southern Connecticut Owls.[4]

Club career

Suzane has played for the Boston Breakers in the National Women's Soccer League.[5][6][7] She was waived by the Boston Breakers in October 2015,[8] and returned to her home country with Portuguesa.

In 2016, Suzane joined Santos. She helped the club to win their first-ever Campeonato Brasileiro de Futebol Feminino Série A1 in 2017 as a starter, but suffered a knee injury afterwards, and opted to leave the club at the end of the season to follow her husband to Portugal.[1]

On 5 September 2018, after a period without a club, Suzane joined Marítimo.[9] On 9 April 2021, she signed for Ferroviária.[10]

On 9 January 2024, after being a regular starter at AFE Suzane returned to Santos.[11]

International career

Besides Brazil, Suzane was also eligible to play for Portugal through her paternal grandfather, who was born in Braga.[12][13] She made her senior debut with the latter on 26 November 2015, in a 6–1 win over Montenegro.

On 6 July 2017, Suzane was called up to the UEFA Women's Euro 2017, the nation's first ever continental competition.[14] On 5 July 2022, she was included in the 23-women squad for the UEFA Women's Euro 2022, replacing injured Andreia Jacinto.[15]

Personal life

Suzane is married to Brazilian male footballer Gauther Martins Cardozo, with whom she has a son, who is also called Gauther.[16]

Honours

Santos

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Especial: O que o Santos uniu nem a distância separa" [Special: What Santos has united, not even distance separates]. Diário do Peixe (in Portuguese). 8 April 2018. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  2. ↑ "Jugador: Suzane Pires" [Player: Suzane Pires]. Portuguese Football Federation (in Portuguese). Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 "Suzane". Associação Ferroviária de Esportes (in Portuguese). Retrieved 12 December 2021.
  4. 1 2 "Suzane Pires - 2013 - Women's Soccer". Southern Connecticut Owls. Retrieved 12 December 2021.
  5. ↑ "Suzane Pires – Midfielder". Boston Breakers. Retrieved 26 May 2015.
  6. ↑ Hemming, Nick (13 September 2014). "Breakers Sign Brazilian Forward Suzane Pires". The Bent Musket. Retrieved 26 May 2015.
  7. ↑ "Suzane Pires". Southern Connecticut State University. Retrieved 26 May 2015.
  8. ↑ "Breakers waive Bia, Rafinha, and Suzane Pires". Boston Breakers. 21 October 2015. Archived from the original on 21 November 2015.
  9. ↑ "Futebolista internacional portuguesa Suzane Pires reforça Marítimo" [Portuguese international footballer Suzane Pires bolsters Marítimo] (in Portuguese). Record. 5 September 2018. Retrieved 9 January 2024.
  10. ↑ "Ferroviária vai ao mercado e contrata meia-atacante da seleção portuguesa" [Ferroviária go to the market and sign attacking midfielder of the Portugal national team] (in Brazilian Portuguese). Torcedores.com. 9 April 2021. Retrieved 9 January 2024.
  11. ↑ "Suzane Pires é primeiro reforço das Sereias da Vila para 2024" [Suzane Pires is the first addition of the Sereias da Vila for 2024] (in Brazilian Portuguese). Santos FC. 9 January 2024. Retrieved 9 January 2024.
  12. ↑ "Assim joga Suzane Pires, a brasileira que foi convocada por Portugal" (in Portuguese). 14 October 2015. Retrieved 12 December 2021.
  13. ↑ ""Seria bom demais chegar à final e ter o Ronaldo a assistir"" (in Portuguese). Retrieved 12 December 2021.
  14. ↑ "As eleitas para o Europeu". fpf.pt. 19 June 2017.
  15. ↑ "Suzane Pires chamada". FPF (in European Portuguese). 5 July 2022.
  16. ↑ "Suzane Pires garante: "Podem estar certas, dá para ser mãe e voltar a jogar ao mais alto nível"" (in Portuguese). 14 September 2021. Retrieved 12 December 2021.


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