Ana Cristina Oliveira Leite (born 23 October 1991) is a

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, currently playing for YB Frauen in Switzerland's

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. Born in

Bocholt, Germany Bocholt () is a city in the north-west of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, part of the district Borken. It is situated 4 km ( miles) south of the border with the Netherlands. Suderwick is part of Bocholt and is situated at the border annex ...

, Ana Cristina played club football in the

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while she studied at university in

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. She was a member of the U-17 German national team, but subsequently chose to play for Portugal. She debuted for the senior

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in the

2010 Algarve Cup The 2010 Algarve Cup was the seventeenth edition of the Algarve Cup, an invitational women's football tournament held annually in Portugal. It took place between 24 February and 3 March 2010. It was won by the United States who defeated World and ...

and debuted one month later against

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in the 2011 World Cup qualifying.Statistics
in

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Honours

;FCR 2001 Duisburg *

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: Winner 2008–09 *

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: Winner 2008–2009, 2009–2010

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* * 1991 births Living people Sportspeople from Bocholt, Germany Footballers from Münster (region) German people of Portuguese descent German women's footballers Portuguese women's footballers Frauen-Bundesliga players FCR 2001 Duisburg players SGS Essen players Borussia Mönchengladbach (women) players Bayer 04 Leverkusen (women) players Portugal women's international footballers Women's association football forwards Campeonato Nacional Feminino players Sporting CP (women's football) players UEFA Women's Euro 2017 players Germany women's youth international footballers Expatriate women's footballers in Switzerland German expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland German expatriate women's footballers Portuguese expatriate women's footballers Portuguese expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland 21st-century German sportswomen 21st-century Portuguese sportswomen {{Germany-women-footy-bio-stub