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She missed Radar"s trip to the 1988 Fédération internationale de football association Women"s Invitation Tournament in Guangdong, where they represented Brazil and finished in third place.
She missed Radar"s trip to the 1988 Fédération internationale de football association Women"s Invitation Tournament in Guangdong, where they represented Brazil and finished in third place.
Cenira was a leading player at European Commission Radar when she was a teenager. After beginning her career at Madureira and spending a brief spell with Flamengo, she moved to Radar and scored 34 goals in 1984. The Brazilian women"s national team did not play another match for over three years, until a sponsorship from Maizena corn starch allowed them to play in the 1995 South American Women"s Football Championship.
Cenira was captain of the team and as the only married player, was seen as the team"s mother figure.
She retained the captaincy at the 1995 Fédération internationale de football association Women"s World Cup in Sweden. After Cenira was left out of the Brazil squad for the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games, she gave an explosive interview to Placar magazine which lifted the lid on the team"s internal politics.
Excoriating the Brazilian Football Confederation"s (CBF) women"s football chief, she claimed, variously, that players still close to Radar boss Eurico Lira had been frozen out, players were being bullied into moving to certain clubs, and that certain players were only picked to keep other players happy.