With main titles and an acclaimed worldwide profession, Geyse credit her maturity on and off the pitch to not her achievements, however to all of the challenges she has confronted. Often known as “pretinha” within the countryside of Alagoas, the place she was born, she knew soccer was what made her glad from the time she was a baby, taking part in along with her 5 brothers and cousins.
After enrolling at a college within the nearest city, Maragogi, and taking part in within the inter-school event, she joined the state membership União Desportiva Alagoana (UDA). Greater than a decade has handed, and the reminiscence of her first call-up to the nationwide staff nonetheless stays vivid at present.
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“I used to be at UDA, we performed in opposition to Náutico within the Copa do Brasil, and the following day there have been tryouts for the Underneath-20s. Two weeks later, my brother got here saying he had gotten a name from the coach. Since I arrived at Brazil’s youth nationwide staff in 2015, issues simply flowed,” the ahead recollects.
Meteoric rise
Her nationwide and worldwide breakthrough got here shortly. From Alagoas, she went by means of Pernambuco and São Paulo and performed for Centro Olímpico and Corinthians, the place she met coach Arthur Elias. The transfer to Madrid CFF got here in 2017, the identical yr she debuted for the senior nationwide staff. Nonetheless at youth degree, she was the highest scorer and was named greatest participant on the 2018 South American Underneath-20 Championship.
In eight years in Europe, she performed for Madrid CFF, Benfica, , and , placing up spectacular numbers, reminiscent of 49 targets in 30 matches for the Portuguese membership, and successful titles reminiscent of high scorer within the Spanish league, the Spanish Championship, the UEFA Ladies’s Champions League, and the Ladies’s FA Cup.
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In the US, throughout Gotham FC’s 2025 season, she gained the NWSL league title and the primary version of the CONCACAF competitors. Amongst so many achievements, which one makes her proudest? “Profitable the Champions League with Barcelona. I believe each participant who competes within the Champions sees that as their biggest achievement,” she says with out hesitation.
Turbulence
With the , the Alagoas native has performed in a very powerful competitions, such because the final two World Cups, in 2023 and 2019, the Tokyo Olympics, held in 2021, and the 2022 Ladies’s Copa América, which she gained. Within the present cycle underneath Arthur Elias, that is her sixth call-up. Her time away from the nationwide staff, between 2024 and 2026, was no coincidence.
“I went by means of tough instances as a result of, usually, folks solely see the athlete’s efficiency on the sector and never the one who is there too. I misplaced a brother, and I used to be alone and much from my household. América helped me lots to search out the will to play soccer once more. Little by little, the enjoyment of being on the sector is coming again,” she reveals.
Among the many 29 gamers referred to as up for coaching in Itu, ahead Geyse has an extended historical past with the Brazilian Nationwide TeamCredits: Luciana Vermell/CBF
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Signed by Membership América of at first of this yr, she sees 2026 as an awakening. After successful the CONCACAF W Champions Cup with the Mexican membership, Geyse turned the primary participant to win the competitors twice.
Her sturdy performances for the membership coincided along with her return to the nationwide staff. Two years after sporting the inexperienced and yellow shirt on the Gold Cup in February 2024, she was referred to as up for the matches in opposition to Venezuela, , and Mexico at first of this yr. Now, alongside teammates from different levels of the nationwide staff, reminiscent of heart again , she is participating within the coaching interval outdoors the FIFA window in Itu, São Paulo.
For a doable third World Cup, the participant has only one hope: “With the primary World Cup in Brazil, for it to be an exquisite celebration, we’d like the assist of the followers. So that girls’s soccer, not just for our nationwide staff however for all international locations, is valued extra.”
This text was translated into English by Synthetic Intelligence.