Colombia women's national football team

Colombia
Nickname(s) Las Cafeteras[1]
(The Coffee Growers)
Las Chicas Superpoderosas
(The Powerpuff Girls)
[2][3]
Association Federación Colombiana de Fútbol (FCF)
Confederation CONMEBOL (South America)
Head coach Felipe Taborda
Captain Natalia Gaitán
Most caps Ingrid Vidal (54)
Top scorer Catalina Usme (20)
Home stadium Estadio Metropolitano Roberto Meléndez
FIFA code COL
First colours
Second colours
FIFA ranking
Current 24 Increase 1 (25 March 2016)
Highest 24 (25 March 2016)
Lowest 118 (June 2008)
First international
 Colombia 4–1 Venezuela 
(Mar del Plata, Argentina; 2 March 1998)
Biggest win
 Colombia 8–0 Venezuela 
(Lima, Peru; 11 April 2003)
 Uruguay 0–8 Colombia 
(Barranquilla, Colombia; 6 June 2004)
Biggest defeat
 Brazil 12–0 Colombia Colombia
(Lima, Peru; 27 April 2003)
World Cup
Appearances 2 (First in 2011)
Best result Round of 16 (2015)
Copa América Femenina
Appearances 5 (First in 1998)
Best result Runner-up (2010, 2014)

The Colombia women's national football team represents Colombia in international women's football competitions and are controlled by the Colombian Football Federation. They are a member of the CONMEBOL. The team is currently ranked 25th in the FIFA Ranking and have qualified for two FIFA Women's World Cups, in Germany 2011 and Canada 2015.

Colombia is one of South America's best-ranked national teams, and are also the third nation of the continent to qualify for World Cup and the Olympics, besides Brazil and Argentina.

Las Cafeteras also had participated in all Copa América Femenina editions since 1998. Colombia were runners-up in 2010 and 2014.[4]

Competitive record

*Draws include knockout matches decided on penalty kicks.
**Gold background colour indicates that the tournament was won.
***Red border colour indicates tournament was held on home soil.

     Champions       Runners-up      Third Place       Fourth place  

FIFA World Cup

Year Round Position Pld W D* L GF GA
China 1991Did Not Enter
Sweden 1995
United States 1999Did Not Qualify
United States 2003
China 2007
Germany 2011Group Stage14th301204
Canada 2015Round of 1612th411245
France 2019To be Determined
TotalRound of 162/7712449

Copa América Femenina

Year Round Position Pld W D* L GF GA
Brazil 1991Did Not Enter
Brazil 1995
Argentina 1998First Stage6th42021116
Peru 2003Third place3rd52121216
Argentina 2006First Stage7th4112411
Ecuador 2010Runners-up2nd7412198
Ecuador 2014Runners-up2nd7520122
TotalRunners-up5/72714585853

Olympic Games

Year Round Position Pld W D* L GF GA
United States 1996Did not Qualify
Australia 2000
Greece 2004
China 2008
United Kingdom 2012First stage11th300306
Brazil 2016Qualified
TotalFirst stage1/5300306

Schedule and results

      Win       Draw       Loss

2015

2016

Current squad

The following 18 players were named for international friendlies in April 2016.[5]
Caps and goals updated as 7 April 2016 after the match against USA.

0#0 Pos. Player Date of birth (age) Caps Goals Club
1 1GK Paula Forero (1992-01-25) 25 January 1992 0 0 United States Barry University
12 1GK Catalina Pérez (1994-11-08) 8 November 1994 7 0 United States Miami Hurricanes

3 2DF Natalia Gaitán (c) (1991-04-03) 3 April 1991 41 4 Spain Valencia Féminas
14 2DF Nataly Arias (1986-04-02) 2 April 1986 49 6 Colombia Formas Íntimas
9 2DF Orianica Velasquez (1989-08-01) 1 August 1989 43 2 Colombia Formas Íntimas
2DF Leidy Asprilla (1997-04-18) 18 April 1997 1 0 Colombia Generaciones Palmiranas

2 3MF Isabella Echeverri (1994-06-16) 16 June 1994 17 1 United States University of Toledo
2 3MF Liana Salazar (1992-09-16) 16 September 1992 6 0 Colombia Futuro Soccer
18 3MF Leicy Santos (1996-05-16) 16 May 1996 17 2 United States Iowa Central Community College
4 3MF Diana Ospina (1989-03-03) 3 March 1989 35 3 Colombia Formas Íntimas
10 3MF Yoreli Rincón (1993-07-23) 23 July 1993 51 9 Norway Avaldsnes
6 3MF Maria Jaramillo (1996-02-10) 10 February 1996 1 0 United States Western Michigan Broncos
3MF Carolina Arbeláez (1995-03-08) 8 March 1995 3 0 Colombia Formas Íntimas
2DF Mildrey Pineda (1989-10-01) 1 October 1989 26 2 Colombia Generaciones Palmiranas

15 4FW Tatiana Ariza (1991-02-21) 21 February 1991 40 8 Colombia Club Gol Star
7 4FW Yisela Cuesta (1991-09-27) 27 September 1991 7 1 Colombia Formas Íntimas
7 4FW Nicole Regnier (1995-02-28) 28 February 1995 2 0 Spain Rayo Vallecano
11 3MF Catalina Usme (1989-12-25) 25 December 1989 46 20 Colombia Formas Íntimas

Honours

Coaching staff

As of 25 July 2015
Manager Colombia Felipe Taborda
Assistant manager Colombia Nelson Abadía
Physical trainer Colombia Mario Janer
Goalkeeping coach Colombia Jaime Quintero
Medic Colombia Karen Cifuentes
Assistant Colombia David Castro
Kinesiologist Colombia Heinar Zorrilla

References

  1. "In Colombia, a Soccer Paradox". The New York Times. Retrieved 2015-07-11.
  2. Boehm, Charles (10 June 2015). "OMG What a Goal! Colombia’s Daniela Montoya smashes unreal WWC equalizer". soccerwire.
  3. Baker, Katie (23 June 2015). "Canadian Bacon: Watching the U.S. Women Bring Home a Win in Edmonton". Grantland.
  4. "Brazil reign again, Colombia make history". FIFA. 22 November 2010. Retrieved 2015-07-02.
  5. "MATCH PREVIEW: WNT CONTINUES ROAD TO RIO WITH TWO MATCHES AGAINST COLOMBIA". U.S. Soccer Federation. Retrieved 7 April 2016.

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