Inês Teixeira Pereira (born 26 May 1999) is a Portuguese footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Deportivo de La Coruña, on loan from Everton, and the Portugal women's national team.

Inês Pereira
Pereira in 2024
Personal information
Full name Inês Teixeira Pereira
Date of birth (1999-05-26) 26 May 1999 (age 25)
Place of birth Lisbon, Portugal
Height 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Team information
Current team
Deportivo de La Coruña (on loan from Everton)
Youth career
2006–2012 AC Cacém
2002–2013 1º Dezembro
2013–2014 CAC
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2014–2016 G.D. Estoril Praia
2016–2021 Sporting CP 40 (0)
2021–2024 Servette 30 (0)
2024– Everton 0 (0)
2024–Deportivo de La Coruña (loan) 0 (0)
International career
2015 Portugal U16 2 (0)
2015 Portugal U17 5 (0)
2016–2017 Portugal U19 15 (0)
2018– Portugal 37 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 17 Feb 2023
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 25 Oct 2023

Club career

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After starting her career in the Campeonato Nacional Feminino with G.D. Estoril Praia, Pereira returned to her home city of Lisbon with Sporting CP where she signed in the summer of 2016.[1]

At the end of each of her first two seasons at the club, Sporting were crowned champions and Pereira became a regular in the first team with the team winning 36 of her 40 starts during her five seasons at the club.[2] When the team failed to secure Champions League football at the end of the 2020–21 season, Pereira chose to sign for Swiss champions Servette where she instantly became the number one goalkeeper and kept back-to-back clean sheets in the club's first two qualification fixtures of the Champions League campaign.[3]

On 19 July 2024, it was announced that Pereira had joined Everton, being sent immediately out on loan to Deportivo de La Coruña.[4]

International career

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Pereira has been capped for the Portugal national team, appearing for the team during the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup qualifying cycle.[5] Pereira also started and kept a clean sheet for Portugal in the decisive qualification game for UEFA Women's Euro 2022; however, her team were eliminated 1–0 on aggregate and initially failed to qualify for the tournament before eventually taking the place from Russia who were removed and banned from FIFA and UEFA International matches after Russia's invasion of Ukraine.[6]

On 30 May 2023, she was included in the 23-player squad for the FIFA Women's World Cup 2023.[7]

Honours

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Sporting

References

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  1. ^ "Inês Pereira is the new hire of Sporting CP". twitter.com. Retrieved 22 August 2021.
  2. ^ "Inês Pereira". playmakerstats.com. Retrieved 22 August 2021.
  3. ^ "INÊS PEREIRA REJOINT LE SERVETTE FCCF". servettefc.ch. Retrieved 22 August 2021.
  4. ^ "Pereira Signs For Everton". www.evertonfc.com.
  5. ^ "Women World Cup Qualifiers Europe 2017/2018 » Teams (Portugal)". WorldFootball.net. Retrieved 29 August 2019.
  6. ^ "Who has qualified for Women's EURO?". UEFA.com. Retrieved 22 August 2021.
  7. ^ updated, Mark White last (7 June 2023). "Portugal Women's World Cup 2023 squad: 23-player team named". fourfourtwo.com. Retrieved 20 June 2023.
  8. ^ "Honours | Site oficial do Sporting Clube de Portugal".
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