Luana Bertolucci Paixão (born 2 May 1993), commonly known as Luana, is a Brazilian footballer who plays as a midfielder for Brazilian Campeonato Brasileiro de Futebol Feminino Série A1 club Corinthians and the Brazil national team.
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Full name | Luana Bertolucci Paixão | |||||||||||||||
Date of birth | (1993-05-02) 2 May 1993 (age 29) | |||||||||||||||
Place of birth | São Bernardo do Campo, Brazil[1] | |||||||||||||||
Height | 1.63 m (5 ft 4 in) | |||||||||||||||
Position(s) | Midfielder | |||||||||||||||
Club information | ||||||||||||||||
Current team | Corinthians | |||||||||||||||
Number | 5 | |||||||||||||||
Senior career* | ||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||||
2011–2014 | Centro Olímpico | |||||||||||||||
2015–2018 | Avaldsnes IL | 75 | (16) | |||||||||||||
2019 | Hwacheon KSPO | 22 | (8) | |||||||||||||
2020–2022 | Paris Saint-Germain | 17 | (2) | |||||||||||||
2022– | Corinthians | 0 | (0) | |||||||||||||
National team‡ | ||||||||||||||||
2012– | Brazil | 30 | (1) | |||||||||||||
Honours
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 24 June 2022 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 31 July 2022 |
Luana was attached to São Bernardo, São Caetano and Corinthians as a young player. She signed for Associação Desportiva Centro Olímpico in early 2011.[1]
She agreed a transfer to Norwegian Toppserien club Avaldsnes for their 2015 season, which culminated in them finishing as runners-up in both the League and Norwegian Women's Cup, qualifying them to the UEFA Women's Champions League for the first time.[2] In 2017, Luana was Avaldsnes' Player of the Year as the club won the Norwegian Women's Cup. She signed a one-year extension to her contract in November 2017.[3]
Luana represented the Brazil women's national under-17 football team at the 2010 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup in Trinidad and Tobago, where they reached the quarter-finals.[4] After graduating to the under-20 team, she attended the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup in 2012 in Japan.[5]
In December 2012, she won her first cap for the senior Brazil women's national football team at the 2012 International Women's Football Tournament of City of São Paulo, appearing as a substitute for Érika in a 2–1 win over Denmark.[6]
Luana was absent from Brazil's final 23-player squad for the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup when it was announced on 16 May 2019.[7] But she was added to the group the following day, when Adriana withdrew due to a knee ligament injury.[8]
As of 31 July 2022[9][10][11][12]
National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
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Brazil | 2012 | 2 | 0 |
2013 | 3 | 0 | |
2014 | 0 | 0 | |
2015 | 0 | 0 | |
2016 | 0 | 0 | |
2017 | 1 | 0 | |
2018 | 0 | 0 | |
2019 | 11 | 0 | |
2020 | 5 | 1 | |
2021 | 0 | 0 | |
2022 | 8 | 0 | |
Total | 30 | 1 |
No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
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1 | 1 December 2020 | Estádio do Morumbi, São Paulo, Brazil | ![]() | 2–0 | 8–0 | Friendly |
Avaldsnes
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