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Yolanda de Sousa

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Personal information
Full name Yolanda de Sousa Kammermeier
Date of birth 1955 (age 69–70) [1]
Place of birth Calangute, Goa, Portuguese India (now India)
Position Centre-forward [2] [3]
Youth career
Calangute Women’s FC [4]
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1975–1979 Calcutta Women's FC [4]
Goa
Bengal [2]
International career
1976–1981 India
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Yolanda de Sousa Kammermeier (born 1955) [1] is an Indian former footballer and artist, who played as a centre-forward for the Indian national team. [2] [3] She was the captain of the Indian team that finished as runners-up in the 1980 AFC Women's Championship. [5] [3]

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De Sousa is widely known for being the first Indian woman to score an international hat-trick. [2] She achieved this feat in 1978 during a tournament in Calcutta against Singapore. [2] [5] She is nicknamed the "Hat-trick Queen" for this accomplishment. [2]

Football career

Domestic career

De Sousa is from Calangute in Goa. [4] She grew up with seven sisters and one brother, and her family was very supportive of her playing football. [3] Her brother, in particular, would wake her for practice, prepare her football kit, and attend her matches. [3] She began her career playing for the Calangute Women's Football Club. [4]

In 1975, she moved to Calcutta (now Kolkata) and joined the Calcutta Women's Football Club (CWFC). [4] [3] With CWFC, she won the Stafford Challenge Cup in 1976, where her team defeated a club from Pune in the final. [4] [2]

She also represented the state teams of Goa and Bengal in domestic competitions. [2] She captained the Goan team to their first victory in the women's national championships. [4] [3]

International career

De Sousa played as a centre-forward for the Indian national team and served as its captain. [4] [5]

In 1978, she participated in the Women's International Football Tournament in Calcutta, which has been described as an unofficial Asian Cup. [3] During this tournament, she scored the first-ever international hat-trick by an Indian woman, in a match against Singapore. [2] [5]

De Sousa later captained the Indian team at the 1980 AFC Women's Championship in Calicut. [3] [5] India finished the tournament as runners-up, earning a silver medal. [3] De Sousa was the joint top-scorer of the tournament. [3]

Personal life and art career

De Sousa retired from football in 1979. [4] [3] Following her playing career, she was employed by the Sports Authority of Goa (SAG). [4] [3]

She is also a professional artist and is known by her married name, Yolanda de Sousa Kammermeier. [3] As of 2017, she resides in her hometown of Calangute, Goa. [4] Her husband is named Mahendra. [4]

De Sousa played hockey before she played football. [6]

Career statistics

International goals

Scores and results list India's goal tally first.
List of international goals scored by Yolanda de Sousa
No.DateVenueOpponentResultCompetition
1.12 January 1980 Calicut EMS Stadium, Calicut, India Flag of Hong Kong 1959.svg  Hong Kong 2–0 1980 AFC Women's Championship
2.19 January 1980 Calicut EMS Stadium, Calicut, India Flag of Hong Kong 1959.svg  Hong Kong 3–1 1980 AFC Women's Championship

References

  1. 1 2 "The turf has changed, but the flashes of brilliance continue". The Times of India . 30 April 2017.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 "Who Is Yolanda D'Souza: The 'Hat-trick Queen' Of Indian Football". SheThePeople. 28 September 2024.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 "Heart and Hat-tricks: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Footballer". NewsClick. 25 December 2022.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 "Turning on the magic". The Times of India. 5 November 2017.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 "Trailblazers go down memory lane as India hosts AFC Women's Asian Cup". Business Standard. 14 January 2022.
  6. ↑ "With hockey as an excuse, veterans meet on pitch to relive old memories". The Times of India. 2023-01-16. ISSN   0971-8257 . Retrieved 2025-11-11.
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