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Érika Cristina de Souza (born 9 March 1982) is a Brazilian professional women's basketball player with the Chicago Sky of the WNBA in the United States.〔(Player Biography ) WNBA.com〕 Prior to joining the Dream for their inaugural 2008 season, DeSouza was a member of the Los Angeles Sparks in 2002, with whom she won the WNBA title despite not playing the 2002 finals. Leaving the WNBA thereafter, de Souza traveled to Spain, where she won the 2005-2006 MVP of the Spanish women's league while playing with UB-Barça. In 2007, she returned to the WNBA with the Connecticut Sun. With the Sun, she played in 32 games, with 2 starts.〔 With the Dream, de Souza has participated in two WNBA Finals and two All-Star Games. ==Biography== Erika de Souza was born in Rio de Janeiro, and grew up in poverty, with a single mother and three sibling. She began playing basketball at the age of 16, she also played volleyball, handball, and ran track. Her abilities led to a contract with a professional team from Osasco, where she met future teammate Izi Castro Marques. She signed her first pro contract in 2001 with a team in Spain who then helped her sign with the LA Sparks. Following that she won the championship with the Sparks, in which her idol Lisa Leslie played.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Erika de Souza )〕 After she won the championship in 2002 she remodeled her mother's home. In 2004 she made the Brazilian national team in the Athens Olympics. She decided to play in Spain for four seasons in Spain under Carme Lluveras 2004-2008. Erika purchased a bakery in her home town of Rio de Janeiro for her family to have local income there. Erika's mother died in 2008 following a long battle with cancer. In 2008 she was in the expansion draft to the Atlanta Dream. Erika has an uncanny rebounding ability, a physical presence in the paint, and leads the Dream in rebounds per game; almost half are offensive boards.〔 Erika fractured her lower leg May 27, 2008 against the Washington Mystics and was out for the rest of the basketball season, the record for the Dream that season without Erika was 4-30 and in 2009 when she returned their record was 18-16; biggest single-season turn around in WNBA league history and the Dream made the play offs for the first time. On July 27, 2015, de Souza was traded to the Chicago Sky as part of a three-team deal.〔(Sky Acquires Center Erika de Souza in 3–Team Trade )〕 Erika is compared in her country to Dennis Rodman, given both are basketballers with multiple tattoos, piercings, and dyed hair.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Érika de Souza」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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