From 2009 to 2022. Over 13 years, Ana Borges completed 146 games with the National Team. This Wednesday, when she reached that figure in the European Championship against the Netherlands, she officially surpassed Carla Couto and he became the Portuguese player with the most caps in history.
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The Sporting player made her debut with the national team in March 2009, in the Algarve Cup, in a victory against Poland at the Estádio Municipal de Albufeira, in which she even scored one of the Portuguese goals. Now, at 32 years old, he is part of Francisco Neto’s group of almost indisputable players, having started against Switzerland and the Netherlands in the European Championship in England. serving 90 minutes in both games. Very versatile, he started the game with the Dutch in an offensive position, always had an important defensive role and ended up on the left side after Joana Marchão left.
Ana Borges’s day, however, could have been even more special: five minutes into the game against the Netherlands, the Sporting player placed the ball deep in the opponent’s goal, apparently opening the scoring. The play, however, ended up being annulled for Jessica Silva being offside earlier. Even so, Borges was an active part of one of the best performances of the National Team in recent years, with Francisco Neto’s team battling with the European champion in title to depend only on you to still reach the quarterfinals of the European Championship.
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In the classification one of the most international in Portugal, now run in isolation by Ana Borges, followed by Carla Couto (145), Carole Costa (144), Dolores (139) and Cláudia Neto (137), being that Carole and Dolores are still active and were also starters in the two matches of the European group stage.
⌚️Final whistle: NED 3-2 BY
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Source: Observadora
