Claire Rafferty

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Claire Rafferty
Claire Rafferty 2014 (cropped) .jpg
Rafferty at Chelsea LFC (2014)
Personnel
Surname Claire Lauren Rafferty
birthday January 11, 1989
place of birth Bromley ,  UK
position Defense
Juniors
Years station
Kent Magpies
Women
Years station Games (goals) 1
2003-2007 Millwall Lionesses
2007-2018 Chelsea Ladies Football Club 101 (12)
2018-2019 West Ham United 13 0(1)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
2008 England U-19 7 (0)
2010 England U-23 3 (1)
2010-2017 England 18 (0)
2012 Great Britain 1 (0)
1 Only league games are given.
Status: end of season 2018/19

2 As of June 14, 2017

Claire Lauren Rafferty (born January 11, 1989 in Bromley , United Kingdom ) is an English former football player . The defender was under contract with the Chelsea Ladies from 2007 to 2018 and then played one more season for West Ham United . From 2010 to 2017 she played occasionally for the English national team . She played on the left.

Career

societies

Rafferty started with the Kent Magpies when he was 10 . From 2003 to 2007 she played for the Millwall Lionesses and then moved to the capital to the Chelsea Ladies . Here she played up to and including the 2017/18 season. With Chelsea she won the English championship three times and the cup twice. In the 2015/16 UEFA Women's Champions League they reached the round of 16, where they were eliminated after two defeats against VfL Wolfsburg . Also in 2016/17 the Wolves were stronger, this time already in the sixteenth finals, with Chelsea still picking up one point after a 3-0 home defeat in Wolfsburg. In 2017/18 they even made it to the semi-finals, but were defeated there again twice against Wolfsburg.

For the 2018/19 season she moved to West Ham United . At the end of the season, which ended in seventh place for the Hammers, she announced the end of her career. She then returned to Chelsea to work as a partnership sales manager.

National teams

Rafferty played in the English U-15, U-17 and U-19, U-20 and U-23 teams, but at 15 already for the U-19s. She took part in the U-20 Women's World Cup in Chile in 2008 , where she lost 3-0 with England in the quarter-finals against eventual world champions USA. On March 25, 2010 Rafferty made his debut in the World Cup qualifier against Austria in the English national team. In the squad for the 2011 World Cup , she was the player with the fewest appearances before the World Cup. In the quarter-finals against France , she was substituted on in the 81st minute, making her first World Cup appearance. On penalties she was the penultimate English shooter and as Faye White was the last Englishwoman to miss, England was eliminated.

Rafferty was in the squad of Team GB for the 2012 Olympic Games in London called. But it was only used in the friendly against Sweden on July 20.

Three cruciate ligament tears prevented a higher number of international matches. In qualifying for the EM 2013 she only had two short appearances and could not be considered for the EM.

In 2015, after two and a half years without an international match, she took part in the Cyprus Cup , which England won for the third time, although she was only used in the final.

She was part of the English squad at the 2015 World Cup in Canada . She was in the starting line-up in two group games as well as in the eighth, quarter and semi-finals. In the game for third place, in which she was not used, her team managed to win against Germany for the first time . England was able to win a World Cup medal for the first time after the men's World Cup title in 1966.

In 2016 she took part with the English team in the SheBelieves Cup , which was held for the first time , but was only used in the goalless draw against France. In January 2017, she played a goalless draw in a friendly against Sweden.

successes

  • English championship: 2015, 2017, 2017/2018
  • English Cup Winner: 2014/2015, 2017/2018
  • League Cup Winner 2010
  • Cyprus Cup winner 2015
  • World Cup third in 2015

Web links

Commons : Claire Rafferty  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ chelseafc.com: Rafferty departure confirmed
  2. ↑ bbc.com: "Claire Rafferty: West Ham United sign England left-back"
  3. ↑ whufc.co: Claire Rafferty to retire at the end of the season
  4. ↑ chelseafc.com: Claire Rafferty returns to Chelsea in a commercial role
  5. ↑ TheFA: Powell names World Cup squad ( Memento from June 13, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ svenskfotboll.se: Damer Landskamp Match information: Stor Britain - Sverige
  7. ↑ thefa.com: "Claire Rafferty: The final straw was when I fell over my dog"
personal data
SURNAME Rafferty, Claire
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rafferty, Claire Lauren
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH January 11, 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH Bromley