The Women’s Copa Libertadores will be held in Quito from October 13 to 28 with the participation of sixteen clubs where some of the best soccer players in the continent play, who will take the field with the aim of leading their teams to reach the title of champions of South America.
Among the players there are those who stood out in the last Copa América and others who have extensive experience in the tournament.
1. ANDREA OJEDA (Boca Juniors)
Argentine striker Andrea Ojeda is Boca Juniors’ all-time top scorer and the player with the most titles on the Xeneize women’s team. She has won everything at the national level and aspires to also be part of the first international title of the Buenos Aires club.
2. CATALINA USME (America de Cali)
Colombian striker Catalina Usme is the all-time top scorer in the Women’s Copa Libertadores with 29 goals, a record that may increase in this new participation after having been the top scorer in the Colombian league, where she contributed 15 goals in 21 games to the national title of the America of Cali.
3. YAMILA RODRIGUEZ (Boca Juniors)
The attacker Yamila Rodríguez was with the Argentine national team the top scorer in the recent Copa América played in July in Colombia, and with Boca she is Ojeda’s main goal partner, where in this last season she scored thirteen goals.
4. JHENIFFER (Corinthians)
In the last Women’s Copa Libertadores, the Brazilian Jheniffer was already one of the tournament’s top scorers at the age of 19 to give Corinthians its third continental title, and this year she is supported by Adriana, who with nine goals has been one of the main values del ‘Timao’ to win the Brazilian league this year.
5. BIA ZANERATTO (Palmeiras)
The experienced Brazilian midfielder Bia Zaneratto, nicknamed ‘the Empress’, also stood out in the last Copa América with three goals for Canarinha, and in the last season of the Brazilian league she was the top scorer for her team with nine goals.
6. MANUELA GONZALEZ (Deportivo Cali)
He was part of the América de Cali team that reached the final of the 2020 Copa Libertadores. Now, with the green and white shirt of Deportivo Cali, he has become the benchmark in attack with 10 goals in the last season of the Colombian league.
7. LIZA LARREA (Liberty Limpeño)
Paraguayan striker Liza Larrea is the great hope of Libertad Limpeño to repeat the feat of the Copa Libertadores won by said club in 2016, as evidenced by her 36 goals in the last season of the Paraguayan women’s championship.
8. KARINA CASTELLANO (Olympia)
The 29 goals scored by Karina Castellano in the last season were the main contribution for Olimpia to be the great dominator of the year by winning the Apertura and Clausura, which helped her to obtain her first national title.
9. ADRIANA LÚCAR (Lima Alliance)
With 17 goals, the Peruvian striker Adriana Lúcar has led Alianza Lima towards the conquest of its second consecutive league in Peru, a success in which she has formed with Sandy Dorador, Sandra Arévalo and the Venezuelan Neidy Romero.
10. FERNANDA ARAYA (Santiago Morning)
Chilean left winger Fernanda Araya has become in her first season with Santiago Morning one of the team’s most unbalanced players with twelve goals in the last season, which was added to the thirteen achieved by forward Yenny Acuña.
11. MAIRETH PÉREZ (Ñañas)
Colombian midfielder Maireth Pérez was chosen as the best soccer player of the last season of the Ecuadorian Women’s Super League, in which she took the helm of the Ñañas so that the club was proclaimed champion of the country for the first time, with a great performance also from her compatriot Karen Páez, tournament scorer.
EFE
