Beatriz Zaneratto João (born 17 December 1993), known as Bia Zaneratto, just Beatriz, or Bia, is a Brazilian professional

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who plays as a

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for the

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of the

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(NWSL) and the Brazil women's national team. She was part of the national squad at the

2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...

2015 2015 was designated by the United Nations as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soil __TOC__ Events January * January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...

2019 This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year. Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...

, and

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Club career

Bia Zaneratto joined her local team Ferroviária at the age of 13. In 2010, she moved to play for reigning

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champions

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. In February 2013 Bia Zaneratto and her Vitória das Tabocas teammate Thaísinha announced that they had accepted a transfer to South Korean club

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. With the team, Beatriz has won seven consecutive

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championships between 2013 and 2019. In the 2015 championship, she scored an equalizing goal in the 123rd minute to force the game to

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, where her team prevailed. From 2020 to 2021, she played for Chinese team Wuhan Jianghan University, where she scored seven goals in nine matches to help them win the

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. After the suspension of competitions due to the

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, Zaneratto was loaned to Palmeiras. After a long time away from Brazilian football, Bia made her debut for Palmeiras in the Brazilian Women's Championship, scoring one of the five goals in the team's victory over Cruzeiro in Belo Horizonte. Still in 2020, Bia took part in and won the charity

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tournament *Copa GamHer*, in which female players competed in matches of the football video game ''

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''. It was Zaneratto's first experience and title in an esports event. Representing the Brazilian women's eNational Team, Bia defeated Spanish player Sheila Garcia—then playing for

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—by a score of 5–1 in the final. The purpose of the tournament was to raise funds to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. At the end of her loan, Palmeiras managed to extend Bia's stay for another 30 days. After that extension ended, Zaneratto returned to China in July to play for Wuhan Xinjiyuan, which went on to win its second consecutive league title. In 2021, Bia was again loaned to Palmeiras. After competing in the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, which she participated in, her contract with Palmeiras ended and she returned to China. Despite a major fan campaign to keep her, including the use of the hashtag #FicaZaneratto ("StayZaneratto"), she left the club. During this six-month period in the 2021 Brasileirão A1, she scored 13 goals and provided 8 assists for Palmeiras. While at Palmeiras in 2021, she became the first player in the history of the Brazilian Women's Championship to be named Player of the Month, which she won for her performances in May. Zaneratto won the " ESPN Bola de Prata Sportingbet 2021" and the " Prêmio Brasileirão 2021" awards in the categories of top scorer, best forward, best player of the Brasileirão, and Bola de Ouro, sweeping all the possible honors. In the first edition of the "Troféu Nosso Palestra" awards by the Palmeiras fan news portal *Nosso Palestra*, held on 30 December 2021, Zaneratto was named "Best Player," beating fellow nominees Bruna Calderan and

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. Zaneratto finished 2021 among the top eleven South American players of the year, according to the

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. After her contract with Wuhan Xinjiyuan ended in December 2021, Bia became a free agent and was pursued by both

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and

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. In the end, she decided to sign a one-season contract with Palmeiras. This signing was described by the club's management as a "Christmas gift" to the fans. A large part of Zaneratto’s return to Palmeiras was driven by an online campaign from supporters, who used the hashtag #VoltaZaneratto to request her return and build momentum on social media. On December 27, the club officially announced Zaneratto’s return with a special video shared on its social media platforms. In 2021, she was honored by Palmeiras supporter and musician Marlon Góes with the song *Hit da Bia Zaneratto*, which celebrates her style of play and describes her as the “Palmeiras star”. In 2022, Zaneratto was part of the Palmeiras squad that won both the São Paulo Women's State Championship and the

. In Palmeiras’ debut match at the 2023 Copa Libertadores Femenina, Zaneratto delivered a standout performance by scoring one goal and providing two assists in a 5–0 victory over Barcelona de Guayaquil. With this game, she also reached the milestone of 50 goals scored for the club. The

signed Bia on January 22, 2024, on a one-year contract with a one-year option. In the season opener on March 16, she scored in the Current's 5–4 win over the

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. She scored a brace to help beat

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5–2 on April 20. She was named NWSL Player of the Month for March/April 2024, with four goals and three assists in that span.

International career

Ahead of the inaugural

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, a 14-year-old Bia Zaneratto was the youngest player in Brazil's squad and was highlighted as a "player to watch" by ''

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'' newspaper. In May 2011, she made her debut for the senior national team in a 3–0 friendly win over

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. Bia Zaneratto was named in Brazil's squad for the

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in Germany and participated in the 3–0 group stage win over

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. In February 2015, Bia Zaneratto's club commitments in South Korea meant she was left out of Brazil's 18-month residency programme intended to prepare the national team for the

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and the

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. At the World Cup in Canada, Bia Zaneratto made substitute appearances in the final group game, a 1–0 win over

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, and the 1–0 second-round defeat by

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. Bia Zaneratto was named to the Brazil squad for the

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, her first Olympic Games. She plundered three goals, including one in the Bronze Medal match, in which Brazil lost 2–1 to Canada, as hosts Brazil finished in fourth place. It was reported that her performances "lit up" the Games and made her a target for clubs in the American

, albeit her relatively high salary in South Korea made a

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less likely. At the

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, Bia Zaneratto suffered a fractured fibula during Brazil's 1–0 defeat by hosts the

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. At the

, Bia Zaneratto scored against

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Career statistics

International goals

Scores and results list Brazil's goal tally first.

Honours

Santos *

2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

Campeonato Paulista de Futebol Feminino The Campeonato Paulista de Futebol Feminino (''Paulista Women's Football Championship'', in English) is the women's football state championship of São Paulo State, and is contested since 1987. Format There is no predetermined format for the ...

: 2010 Hyundai Steel Red Angels *

2013 2013 was the first year since 1987 to contain four unique digits (a span of 26 years). 2013 was designated as: *International Year of Water Cooperation *International Year of Quinoa Events January * January 5 – 2013 Craig, Alask ...

2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...

2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

2017 2017 was designated as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development by the United Nations General Assembly. Events January * January 1 – Istanbul nightclub shooting: A gunman dressed as Santa Claus opens fire at the ...

2018 Events January * January 1 – Bulgaria takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, after the Estonian presidency. * January 4 – SPLM-IO rebels loyal to Chan Garang Lual start a raid against Juba, capital of ...

Wuhan Jianghan University *

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Palmeiras *

2022 The year began with another wave in the COVID-19 pandemic, with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, Omicron spreading rapidly and becoming the dominant variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus worldwide. Tracking a decrease in cases and deaths, 2022 saw ...

: 2022 Kansas City Current *

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Brazil *

Copa América Femenina The Copa América Femenina (''Copa América Feminina'' in Portuguese), previously the ''Campeonato Sudamericano de Fútbol Femenino'' (''Campeonato Sul-Americano de Futebol Feminino''), usually shortened to ''Sudamericano Femenino'' (''Sul-America ...

Individual *

Top scorer: 2017 *

Top assists: 2017

References

External links

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