Catalina Julia Primo (born 19 May 2000) is an Argentine

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who plays as a

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for football team UAI Urquiza. She also played for the Argentine U20 team.

Club career

Primo began her steps in football at the age of 5 at the Sportivo 9 de Julio club in her hometown of Río Tercero. She first played for a women's football club at age 12 at Libertad de Hernando. She later moved to the city of Córdoba and had a brief stint at Instituto in 2015. After playing in the Liga Cordobesa de Fútbol with

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(2016-2018) and Talleres (2018-2020), Primo signed her first professional contract in 2020 with UAI Urquiza of the

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International career

Primo's first national call-up occurred in 2017, having been called-up the Argentine U20 team. She played in the South American U-20 Women's Championship in

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, but in both tournaments, the team did not manage to get past the group stage.

References

2000 births Living people Footballers from Río Cuarto, Córdoba Argentine women's footballers 21st-century Argentine sportswomen Women's association football midfielders Talleres de Córdoba (women) footballers UAI Urquiza (women) players {{argentina-women-footy-bio-stub