Telma Encarnação
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Telma Raquel Velosa Encarnação | ||
Date of birth | 11 October 2001 | ||
Place of birth | Funchal, Madeira, Portugal | ||
Height | 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)[1] | ||
Position(s) | Forward | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | Marítimo | ||
Number | 10 | ||
Youth career | |||
ADRC Os Xavelhas | |||
Marítimo | |||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2017–2024 | Marítimo | 78 | (54) |
2024- | Sporting CP | 1 | (1) |
International career‡ | |||
2017 | Portugal U16 | 6 | (4) |
2017–2018 | Portugal U17 | 13 | (16) |
2018–2020 | Portugal U19 | 16 | (16) |
2022– | Portugal U23 | 2 | (3) |
2018– | Portugal | 28 | (6) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 11:57, 17 Feb 2023 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 05:20, 25 October 2023 (UTC) |
Telma Raquel Velosa Encarnação (born 11 October 2001) is a Portuguese footballer who plays as a striker for Campeonato Nacional Feminino club Sporting CP and the Portugal women's national team.
Club career
[edit]In May 2018, Encarnação scored in Marítimo's 6–0 win over Clube Condeixa which secured the club's promotion to the top-flight Campeonato Nacional Feminino for the first time.[2] After becoming a key player she agreed a new three-year contract with Marítimo in March 2021, prolonging her stay at the Funchal club she joined as a 13-year-old from ADRC Os Xavelhas in nearby Câmara de Lobos.[3] In August 2024, she joined the two-times portuguese champions Sporting CP.
International career
[edit]On 10 November 2018 Encarnação won her first senior cap for Portugal in a 1–0 friendly win over Wales in Rio Maior. She entered play as a 59th-minute substitute for fellow Madeiran Laura Luís.[4]
On 30 May 2023, she was included in the 23-player squad for the FIFA Women's World Cup 2023.[5] In that World Cup she scored Portugal's first goal in any Women's World Cup, in a match against Vietnam.[6]
International goals
[edit]- Scores and results list Portugal's goal tally first.
No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
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1. | 14 June 2021 | Shell Energy Stadium, Houston, United States | Nigeria | 2–2 | 3–3 | Friendly |
2. | 19 September 2021 | Haberfeld Stadium, Rishon LeZion, Israel | Israel | 1–0 | 4–0 | 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification |
3. | 28 June 2022 | Estádio António Coimbra da Mota, Estoril, Portugal | Australia | 1–1 | 1–1 | Friendly |
4. | 6 September 2022 | Estádio do FC Vizela, Vizela, Portugal | Turkey | 1–0 | 4–0 | 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification |
5. | 11 April 2023 | Estádio D. Afonso Henriques, Guimarães, Portugal | Wales | 1–0 | 1–1 | Friendly |
6. | 27 July 2023 | Waikato Stadium, Hamilton, New Zealand | Vietnam | 1–0 | 2–0 | 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup |
7. | 27 February 2024 | Estádio António Coimbra da Mota, Estoril, Portugal | South Korea | 2–0 | 5–1 | Friendly |
References
[edit]- ^ "Play-Off Tournament for the FIFA Women's World Cup Australia & New Zealand 2023" (PDF). FIFA. 12 February 2023. p. 1. Retrieved 12 February 2023.
- ^ Silva, Emanuel (27 May 2018). "Futebol feminino do Marítimo faz história e sobe à I Divisão" (in Portuguese). Funchal Noticias. Retrieved 2 May 2021.
- ^ Perfeito, João (3 March 2021). "Telma Encarnação prolonga ligação ao Marítimo" (in Portuguese). C.S. Marítimo. Retrieved 2 May 2021.
- ^ "Trio madeirense afina estratégia lusa" (in Portuguese). Madeira Football Association. 14 November 2018. Retrieved 2 May 2021.
- ^ updated, Mark White last (7 June 2023). "Portugal Women's World Cup 2023 squad: 23-player team named". fourfourtwo.com. Retrieved 20 June 2023.
- ^ https://www.portugalresident.com/portugal-celebrates-first-win-ever-at-fifa-womens-world-cup/
External links
[edit]- Telma Encarnação at Soccerway
- Telma Encarnação national team profile at the Portuguese Football Federation (in Portuguese)
- 2001 births
- Living people
- Portuguese women's footballers
- Portugal women's international footballers
- Women's association football defenders
- Campeonato Nacional Feminino players
- People from Câmara de Lobos
- Madeiran footballers
- Footballers from Funchal
- Portugal women's youth international footballers
- UEFA Women's Euro 2022 players
- 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup players
- C.S. Marítimo (women) players
- Portuguese women's football biography stubs