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Michela was born in Cuneo, in Italy's Piedmont region, before joining one of the country's biggest academies at Juventus.

Melissa started playing football at just four years old, kicking a ball around the local square and park with her friends. At six, she asked her parents to enrol her with FC Pedaso, the village club where her football journey began.

She has played club football in Sweden, Germany, Russia, and Italy during her professional career.

Inter describes her as a midfielder with a strong goalscoring instinct despite operating primarily in midfield.

At Palmeiras in 2021, Taty Amaro won the Copa Paulista Feminina title.

She won Olympic silver medals with Sweden at both Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020.

Although she considers herself a natural number nine, she prides herself on her versatility and ability to execute various attacking functions on the pitch.

Despite her prolific goalscoring abilities as a forward, she once showcased her tactical versatility by playing a classic derby match as a holding midfielder.

Duda has taken inspiration from Kobe Bryant’s famous “Mamba Mentality,” using it in her own football posts as a nod to discipline, hard work and the drive to keep improving.

Her early involvement came from accompanying her mother to football activities, rather than entering the sport through a traditional academy pathway.

She spent her entire youth development pathway with ASD Inter Femminile Milano before progressing to the first team.

Liverpool was the club she grew up supporting because her family were Liverpool fans.

Alessia was born and raised in Naples, making her one of the few homegrown players in Napoli Women's first-team squad.

In 2025, she made a major career decision to leave Brazil and sign with Independiente del Valle in Ecuador, later explaining in an interview that she needed to step out of her comfort zone at Corinthians to chase her sporting dreams, despite missing her family back home.

At just 19 years old, she expressed her major ambitions in an exclusive interview, stating that she came to Flamengo to make history and fight for titles.