Sissi Do Amor- LPC Women's Soccer Coach

Sisleide do Amor Lima (born 6/2/1967), commonly known as Sissi, is a Brazilian footballer who played as an attacking midfielder. She last played for FC Gold Pride of Women's Professional Soccer and is a former member of the Brazil women's national football team. Sissi was part of the EC Radar club team who represented Brazil at the 1988 FIFA Women's Invitation Tournament in Guangdong and finished in third place. She was unable to take part in the inaugural 1991 FIFA Women's World Cup because she was not released by her club team.

She is also the women's soccer coach at Las Positas College.

Sissi brings years of playing and coaching experience to LPC. She has been apart of several world cup championships, Olympic games and is widely accepted to be the best female soccer player in history.


Sissi was born in Esplanada , Brazil, and at the age of six was already kicking the soccer ball around with her older brother Paulo and her father.  When Sissi couldn't find a soccer ball to kick around, she started using the heads of her dolls, which made her mother worry.

Finding anything available to use as a soccer ball was common in their Brazilian neighborhood, but it was usually boys doing that and not girls!  In Brazil soccer was a men’s game and meant for men and not women.  Even with this prejudice, Sissi wasn't deterred and played as much as she could and had no problem finding boys to play soccer with.  Even with her mother’s worries, Sissi found support from her father, who told her to follow her dreams just as long as she finished school.  At the age of 14,  she played in her first real games, playing for a number of women's teams and even making some money at the same time.  By trade, Sissi was a school teacher, but that practical profession soon gave way to her passion and love for soccer.

Sissi was chosen to play on the Brazilian Women's National Team for both World Cup and Olympic competition.  Her trademark shaved head prior to the 1999 Women's World Cup was a result of a promise she made to God to provide housing for her family in Brazil .  That promise was realized in June 2001!  When the Women's United Soccer Association (WUSA) was formed in 2001, after all of the buzz surrounding the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup, the Foreign Allocation Draft sent Sissi to the San Jose CyberRays.

While Sissi was still going to be playing the game she loved, she now found herself in unfamiliar waters with many different and difficult challenges.

"The language was the hardest by far!"  Sissi said.  "I almost went back home three weeks into my stay because I missed home so much," Sissi went on to explain.  "I walked off the plane and didn't speak a word of English.  Slowly I learned, but I was homesick for quite some time."