Lina Granados

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Lina Granados
Personal information
Full name Lina Paola Granados Reyes[1]
Date of birth (1994-05-19) 19 May 1994 (age 29)
Place of birth Bogotá, Colombia
Height 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)[1]
Position(s) Defender[2]
Team information
Current team
FF Lugano 1976
Number 10
Youth career
McLean Strikers
0000–2012 Briar Woods Falcons
College career
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2012–2015 Vanderbilt Commodores 46 (1)
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2014–2015 Washington Spirit Reserves
2018 Patriotas Boyacá
2018– FF Lugano 1976
International career
2012–2014 Colombia U20
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 02:32, 28 December 2019 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 02:32, 28 December 2019 (UTC)

Lina Paola Granados Reyes (born 19 May 1994) is a Colombian footballer who plays as a defender for FF Lugano 1976.[3]

Career[edit]

In high school, Granados played for the Falcons of Briar Woods High School, where she served as the team captain as a senior. She earned First-Team All-District selections, and was selected in the Second-Team All-Met as a junior. She also played for the McLean Strikers youth team, where she won the 2010 Virginia State Cup and reached the USYS national finals. Granados was a member of the Region I team of the Olympic Development Program for five years, competing at ODP Inter-Regionals in Florida each year. In college, she played for the Commodores of Vanderbilt University from 2012 to 2015.[4] She played for three seasons, having redshirted in 2013, and made 46 appearances, scoring one goal and recording two assists.[5][6][7]

Granados was included in the Colombia under-20 squads for the 2012 and 2014 editions of the South American U-20 Women's Championship. She also competed with the under-20 national team in the football tournament at the 2013 Bolivarian Games in Trujillo, Peru, helping the team to win the gold medal.[4] In June 2015, Granados was called up to the Colombia women's national team for the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup in Canada. She was a member of the 35-player provisional squad, but was initially cut from the final tournament squad before being selected as a replacement for the injured Melissa Ortiz.[8] However, she did not make an appearance in the tournament, in which Colombia were eliminated in the round of 16 by future world champions United States.[9]

On the club level, Granados played for the Washington Spirit Reserves in the USL W-League from 2014 to 2015.[9][10] In 2018, she played for Colombian team Patriotas Boyacá. Later that year, Granados joined Swiss club FF Lugano 1976 of the Nationalliga A.[11] On 25 September 2019, she made her UEFA Women's Champions League debut against English club Manchester City, with the away match finishing as a 0–4 loss.[12]

Personal life[edit]

Granados was born in Bogotá, Colombia, before later moving to Costa Rica. At the age of five, she moved with her family to Ashburn, Virginia, and holds dual American citizenship.[13][14] She graduated from Vanderbilt University in 2016 with a degree in engineering science.[15][16]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "FIFA Women's World Cup Canada 2015 – List of Players: Colombia" (PDF). FIFA.com. Fédération Internationale de Football Association. 6 July 2015. p. 6. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 June 2019. Retrieved 28 December 2019.
  2. ^ "Women's World Cup journey ends for Granados, Colombia". Vanderbilt Commodores. 23 June 2015. Retrieved 28 December 2019.
  3. ^ Lina Granados at Soccerway Edit this at Wikidata
  4. ^ a b "Lina Granados". Vanderbilt Commodores. Retrieved 28 December 2019.
  5. ^ "Vanderbilt 2012 Cumulative Season Statistics". Vanderbilt Commodores. 2012. Archived from the original on 7 September 2015. Retrieved 28 December 2019.
  6. ^ "Vanderbilt 2014 Cumulative Season Statistics". Vanderbilt Commodores. 2014. Archived from the original on 7 September 2015. Retrieved 28 December 2019.
  7. ^ "Vanderbilt 2015 Cumulative Season Statistics". Vanderbilt Commodores. 2015. Archived from the original on 18 November 2015. Retrieved 28 December 2019.
  8. ^ FIFA [@FIFAWWC] (3 June 2015). "Player replacement: We send Melissa Ortiz our best wishes. Her replacement is Lina Granados" (Tweet). Archived from the original on 28 December 2019. Retrieved 28 December 2019 – via Twitter.
  9. ^ a b Robertson, Seth (30 September 2015). "The Call-Up: Colombia native Lina Granados realizes World Cup dream". Vanderbilt Magazine. Vanderbilt University. Retrieved 28 December 2019.
  10. ^ Parker, Kevin (17 July 2015). "W-League: Spirit Reserves punch ticket to Final Four". All White Kit. Retrieved 28 December 2019.
  11. ^ Díaz, Francisco (24 July 2018). "Lina Granados fue fichada por el FF Lugano 1976 de Suiza" [Lina Granados was signed by FF Lugano 1976 of Switzerland]. Fémina Fútbol (in Spanish). Retrieved 28 December 2019.
  12. ^ "Women Champions League 2019/2020 » 1. Round » Manchester City WFC – Lugano Femminile 4:0". WorldFootball.net. HEIM:SPIEL. 25 September 2019. Retrieved 28 December 2019.
  13. ^ "Vanderbilt Women's Soccer 2014" (PDF). Vanderbilt Commodores. 2014. Retrieved 28 December 2019.
  14. ^ "World Cup Q&A with Lina Granados". Vanderbilt Commodores. 21 June 2015. Retrieved 28 December 2019.
  15. ^ "Commodores in the Pros". Vanderbilt Commodores. Retrieved 28 December 2019.
  16. ^ "New era of Vanderbilt soccer begins Friday". Vanderbilt Commodores. 20 August 2015. Retrieved 28 December 2019.

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