Striker Luany, who shone with the shirt of the Brazilian under-20 team last season, is the newest Brazilian signed by Madrid CFF. The player arrives from the women’s soccer club in the Spanish capital on a one-year loan from OL Reign, from the USA, the team that owns her rights.
The Madrid CFF is a common destination for Brazilian players. Names like Vic Albuquerque, Antonia, Geyse, Gabi Nunes and Lauren have already defended Luany’s new team. This season at Madrid, Luany will be a colleague of defender Monica, who played in the World Cup with the Brazilian national team.
At the age of 20, Luany commented on this particularity of her new team:
“It’s a great opportunity to be able to play for Madrid CFF and I’m very happy to be here. It is a club that invests a lot in women’s football and has this history of having many Brazilian women, so I think this will help me adapt to be ready and help and we will have a great season this year,” said the young striker.
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Luany started her career in the Daminhas da Bola project, in Rio de Janeiro. In 2019, she arrived at Fluminense and had her first call-ups for the youth teams. At the age of 18, the striker already stood out in Fluminense’s first team and caught the attention of Grêmio.
At the Rio Grande do Sul club, she was one of the highlights of winning the 2022 Gaúcho Championship, even scoring a goal at Arena do Grêmio in the Grenal derby in the final. The feat took her to the North American OL Reign, where she lived alongside big names in world football like Megan Rapinoe.
Now in Spanish football, the scene of countless world stars, Luany is already part of the Madrid CFF group in pre-season for the Liga F dispute. in Europe:
“It’s a dream to play in Spain, reach Europe and be able to participate in a League with players of such high level as here. Living with and facing these players is an honor and my biggest goal, of course, is to play, help and develop myself even more as a player,” concluded Luany.
