Camila do Carmo Nobre de Oliveira (born 10 June 1988), known as Camila Nobre, is a Brazilian former professional football and futsal player.[1] She has played as a midfielder for the Equatorial Guinea women's national team, but was later ruled to be ineligible.

Camila Nobre
Personal information
Full name Camila do Carmo Nobre de Oliveira
Date of birth (1988-06-10) 10 June 1988 (age 36)
Place of birth São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Height 1.62 m (5 ft 4 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2007–2008 Palmeiras
2009 Jaguariúna
2010 São Caetano
2011–2012 São José
2013 São Caetano
2014 Portuguesa
2015 Centro Olímpico 10 (0)
2016 São José 7 (0)
2016–2017 Madrid CFF 1 (0)
2019 Osasco Audax 12 (0)
International career
2012–2016 Equatorial Guinea
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 19 July 2019
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 15 July 2013

Club career

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Nobre has played almost entirely for São Paulo clubs, highlighting the first of her two spells with São José EC, with which she won the 2011 Copa Libertadores Femenina. After a few years, she went to play in the Spanish Segunda División for Madrid CFF, where she achieved promotion to the Primera División.

International career

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Nobre played for Brazil universities in the 2013 Summer Universiade. She appeared in five matches during the tournament,[2][3][4][5][6] being an unused substitute in the semifinal against Great Britain.[7] Her team finished third, earning the bronze medal.

Controversy

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From 2012 to 2016, Nobre made appearances for the Equatorial Guinea women's national football team despite having no connection with the African nation. She was part of the squad that won the 2012 African Women's Championship.[8]

According to Federação Paulista de Futebol, based on her original Brazilian nationality, her full name is Camila do Carmo Nobre de Oliveira and she was born on 10 June 1988 in São Paulo.[9] These data do not match the information that Equatorial Guinea had submitted to the CAF on the occasion of the 2012 African Women's Championship. There, based on the Equatoguinean passport that African country gave her, her full name was Camila Maria Nobre de Carmo and her date of birth was 10 July 1994.[8] Also, the list published by CAF reported that at the time she was playing for a local Equatoguinean side, E Waiso Ipola, when in reality she was signed with São José Esporte Clube in Brazil, having spent all her entire club career in her natal country. She took advantage of her false age to compete in the 2014 African U-20 Women's World Cup Qualifying Tournament.[10]

On 11 April 2016, Camila Nobre was sanctioned by FIFA with a ten-match suspension, to be served in the next matches of the representative team of Equatorial Guinea for which she would be eligible, as well as a fine of CHF 2,000, a reprimand and a warning, on the basis of art. 61 paras 1 and 2 of the FDC.[11] On 4 August 2016, her double identity case led CAF to disqualify the Equatorial Guinea national women's team from the Women's AFCON Cameroon 2016, and the subsequent suspensions from the 2018 and 2020 editions.[12]

On 5 October 2017, FIFA determined the other ten Brazilian-born footballers who played for Equatorial Guinea at the 2015 CAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament were ineligible. The sanction came from the April's original, involving Camila Nobre.[13]

References

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  1. ^ "Finais do futsal agitam o último dia dos Regionais" (in Portuguese). Itu.com.br. 28 July 2008. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
  2. ^ "Brazil – Great Britain" (PDF). 2013 Summer Universiade. 5 July 2013. Retrieved 11 March 2020.
  3. ^ "Brazil – Estonia" (PDF). 2013 Summer Universiade. 7 July 2013. Retrieved 11 March 2020.
  4. ^ "Japan – Brazil" (PDF). 2013 Summer Universiade. 9 July 2013. Retrieved 11 March 2020.
  5. ^ "Chinese Taipei – Brazil" (PDF). 2013 Summer Universiade. 11 July 2013. Retrieved 11 March 2020.
  6. ^ "Brazil – South Africa" (PDF). 2013 Summer Universiade. 15 July 2013. Retrieved 11 March 2020.
  7. ^ "Brazil – Great Britain" (PDF). 2013 Summer Universiade. 13 July 2013. Retrieved 11 March 2020.
  8. ^ a b "List of players of the 8th African Women Championship, EQUATORIAL GUINEA 2012" (PDF). cafonline.com. 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 February 2013.
  9. ^ "Fraude com brasileira tira Guiné Equatorial do futebol feminino em Tóquio-2020".
  10. ^ Monsuy, David (23 December 2013). "Avalanche of goals by the Women's Nzalang Under 20 against Zambia". Equatorial Guinea Press. Archived from the original on 5 March 2017. Retrieved 29 October 2016. At 89 minutes, Camila was defeated in Zambia's area and the referee called a penalty, which was converted by Apolonia
  11. ^ "Equatorial Guinea expelled from Women's Olympic Football Tournament 2020". FIFA. Archived from the original on 14 April 2016.
  12. ^ "Equatorial Guinea disqualified". CAF.
  13. ^ "Equatorial Guinea expelled from FIFA Women's World Cup France 2019". FIFA. Archived from the original on 6 October 2017.
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