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Brazil international rugby union player

Rugby player

Born (2000-08-18) 18 August 2000 (age 25)

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Height176 cm (5 ft 9 in)

Weight73 kg (161 lb; 11 st 7 lb)

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Eshyllen Coimbra

Born

(2000-08-18) 18 August 2000 (age 25)

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Height

176 cm (5 ft 9 in)

Weight

73 kg (161 lb; 11 st 7 lb)

Rugby union career

Senior career
Position	Lock
Years	Team	Apps	(Points)
	Elshaddai		(0)
International career
Years	Team	Apps	(Points)
2020–	Brazil	17	(10)
Correct as of 16 August 2025
National sevens team
Years	Team		Comps
2018–	Brazil

Eshyllen Coimbra Cardoso (born 18 August 2000) is a Brazilian rugby union player.

Coimbra was reluctant to play rugby in the beginning and always turned down her friends invitations to try the sport out.^[1] She was an avid volleyball player as a youngster, after playing her first game of rugby, she got to like the sport and started going every week.^[1]^[2] She became serious with the game when she was inspired by the Brazilian national teams playing in the 2016 Olympic Games.^[1]^[2]

Rugby career

Sevens

Coimbra made her international rugby sevens debut for the Brazil women's sevens team in the 2018 Canada leg of the Sevens Series.^[1]^[2]

Fifteens

She made her international debut for Brazil in March 2020 in a 19–23 loss against Columbia^[3]

In 2024, she was part of theBrazilian side that beat Colombia in their World Cup qualification match to secure a spot in the 2025 Women's Rugby World Cup.^[4] She scored a try in their 34–13 win in Luque, Paraguay.^[4]

In July 2025, she was named in the Brazilian squad for the 2025 Women's Rugby World Cup in England by head coach Emiliano Caffera.^[5]^[6] She will captain the team in the tournament.^[7]

References

1 2 3 4 Majendie, Matt (4 December 2018). "From Rio's favelas to the World Rugby Sevens for Eshyllen Coimbra Cardoso". CNN. Retrieved 16 August 2025.
1 2 3 "Brazilian rugby debutant Coimbra Cardoso shows power of Olympic dream". www.olympics.com. 16 May 2018. Retrieved 17 August 2025.
↑ "Guia de Imprensa das Yaras para a Copa do Mundo de 2025 - Confederação Brasileira de Rugby" [Yaras Press Guide for the 2025 World Cup]. Brasil Rugby (in Brazilian Portuguese). 14 August 2025. Retrieved 16 August 2025.
1 2 "Brazil book ticket to first Women's Rugby World Cup". Women's and Men's Rugby World Cup. 29 June 2024. Retrieved 16 August 2025.
↑ "Brazil Name Roster for 2025 Women's Rugby World Cup". Americas Rugby News. 28 July 2025. Retrieved 29 July 2025.
↑ "Brasil anuncia lista de convocadas para a primeira participação da história na Copa do Mundo de Rugby XV - Confederação Brasileira de Rugby" [Brazil announces squad list for its first ever participation in the Rugby World Cup XV]. Brasil Rugby (in Brazilian Portuguese). 28 July 2025. Retrieved 29 July 2025.
↑ Rendell, Sarah (16 August 2025). "Women's Rugby World Cup: the definitive guide to the pools". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 16 August 2025.

v t e Brazil squad – 2025 Women's Rugby World Cup
Forwards	Barros C. Carvalho L. Carvalho Coimbra (c) Carvalho Dakar Gomes Saccomanno Henwood Jonck Lima Mamede Medeiros Prioste Santana Santos Silva Souza Vergara
Backs	Barth Bednarski Campos Fioravanti Graf Kochhann Lopes Nicolau Pereira Santini B. Silva L. Silva Soares Tenório
Coach: Caffera

Sevens

Fifteens

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