Cláudia Neto
Cláudia Neto
Cláudia Teresa Pires Neto is a Portuguese footballer who plays as a midfielder. She has represented Portugal at youth and senior international level.
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She has been nicknamed CN7, a nod to Portuguese football star Cristiano Ronaldo and his famous CR7 nickname.
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As a child, she loved receiving footballs for Christmas and birthdays, eventually amassing a collection of more than 30 in her bedroom.
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Her parents moved the family from Portimão to Lagos because there was no local girls' football team where they lived. The move allowed Cláudia and her older sister Beatriz to play organised futsal.
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At 14, she stood beside the Portugal national team's bus and told her mother that one day she would captain that very team. Years later, she made the childhood prediction come true.
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Her mother remembers a very timid little girl who was afraid of sand, the dark and even Father Christmas. That makes her later decision to move abroad alone for football particularly striking.
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As a child, she would sometimes take clothes from her mother's wardrobe to give to people in the street, believing they needed the clothes more than her family did.
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