Kelly
Personal information
Full name Kelly Cristina Pereira da Silva
Date of birth (1985-05-15) 15 May 1985
Place of birth São Gonçalo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Height 1.64 m (5 ft 5 in)
Position(s) Forward
Team information
Current team
 Fluminense
Number 8
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1997–2001 Vasco da Gama
2003–2014 CEPE-Caxias
2016 Flamengo 0 (0)
2017 America-RJ
2019– Fluminense
International career‡
2003–2004 Brazil
*Club domestic league appearances and goals
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 29 September 2003

Kelly Cristina Pereira da Silva (born 15 May 1985), commonly known as Kelly, is a Brazilian women's international footballer who plays as a forward. She was a member of the Brazil women's national football team. She was part of the team at the 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup.[1]

Club career

Kelly played for CR Vasco da Gama, but was left without a club when they folded in 2001. She trained on her own for a period before joining Petrobras in mid-2003.[2]

International career

Youth

Kelly played for Brazil women's national under-20 football team at the 2002 and 2004 editions of the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup.[3][4]

Senior

At the 2004 Athens Olympics, Kelly was part of Brazil's silver medal-winning squad. She appeared briefly as a substitute for Rosana in the 2–0 Group G defeat by the United States, but had to be substituted herself 12 minutes later after breaking her collarbone.[5]

References

  1. ↑ "FIFA Women's World Cup USA 2003 - Technical Report" (PDF). FIFA Women's World Cup United States 2003. FIFA. 2003. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 December 2011. Retrieved 28 September 2007.
  2. ↑ "Kelly" (in Brazilian Portuguese). Universo Online. Retrieved 1 January 2023.
  3. ↑ Kelly – FIFA competition record (archived)
  4. ↑ Leme de Arruda, Marcelo; do Nascimento Pereira, André (28 August 2014). "SELEÇÃO BRASILEIRA SUB-20 FEMININA (WOMENS' U-20 BRAZILIAN NATIONAL TEAM) 2002–2014". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Archived from the original on 10 July 2015. Retrieved 14 June 2015.
  5. ↑ "Kelly Cristina" (in Brazilian Portuguese). Brazilian Olympic Committee. Retrieved 1 January 2023.


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