| Lina Granados | |
| Fullname: | Lina Paola Granados Reyes[1] |
| Height: | 1.68 m |
| Birth Date: | 1994 5, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Bogotá, Colombia |
| Position: | Defender[2] |
| Currentclub: | FF Lugano 1976 |
| Clubnumber: | 10 |
| Youthclubs1: | McLean Strikers |
| Youthyears2: | –2012 |
| Youthclubs2: | Briar Woods Falcons |
| Collegeyears1: | 2012–2015 |
| College1: | Vanderbilt Commodores |
| Collegecaps1: | 46 |
| Collegegoals1: | 1 |
| Years1: | 2014–2015 |
| Clubs1: | Washington Spirit Reserves |
| Years2: | 2018 |
| Clubs2: | Patriotas Boyacá |
| Years3: | 2018– |
| Clubs3: | FF Lugano 1976 |
| Nationalyears1: | 2012–2014 |
| Nationalteam1: | Colombia U20 |
| Pcupdate: | 02:32, 28 December 2019 (UTC) |
| Ntupdate: | 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.
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.[3] She played for three seasons, having redshirted in 2013, and made 46 appearances, scoring one goal and recording two assists.[4] [5] [6]
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.[3] 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.[7] 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.[8]
On the club level, Granados played for the Washington Spirit Reserves in the USL W-League from 2014 to 2015.[8] [9] In 2018, she played for Colombian team Patriotas Boyacá. Later that year, Granados joined Swiss club FF Lugano 1976 of the Nationalliga A.[10] 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.[11]
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.[12] [13] She graduated from Vanderbilt University in 2016 with a degree in engineering science.[14] [15]