Eniola Aluko

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Eniola Aluko
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Aluko at St. Louis Athletica (2009)
Personnel
birthday February 21, 1987
place of birth Lagos ,  Nigeria
size 163 cm
position attack
Women
Years station Games (goals) 1
2001-2003 Birmingham City Ladies
2003-2007 Charlton Athletic Ladies
2007-2009 Chelsea ladies
2009-2010 St. Louis Athletica 25 (10)
2010 Atlanta beat 14 0(6)
2011 Sky Blue FC 15 0(4)
2012 Birmingham City LFC 13 0(4)
2013-2018 Chelsea ladies 28 (11)
2018– Juventus Turin 22 (14)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
2004– England 102 (33)
2012 Great Britain 5 0(0)
1 Only league games are given.
As of July 3, 2019

2 As of February 25, 2018

Eniola Aluko (born February 21, 1987 in Lagos ) is an English football player from Nigeria who has been under contract with Juventus Turin since 2018 . She was in the English national team for the 2011 World Cup and in Team GB for the 2012 Olympic Games .

Her brother Sone is also a professional footballer.

Career

society

Aluko began her career with the Birmingham City Ladies with Karen Carney . She scored her first goal on her league debut against Leeds United at the age of 14. In 2003 the striker was named “Young Player of the Year” by the Football Association . After she was already used in the U-19 and U-21, she made her debut in 2004 at the age of 17 in England's senior team against the selection of the Netherlands.

In 2003 Aluko moved to the Charlton Athletic Ladies and won the FA Women's Cup 2005 with them. In the final, she scored the only goal of the day in the 58th minute. In the 2006 Premier League Cup final , she scored both goals against the Arsenal Ladies in a 2-1 win for her team. After the team was dissolved in 2007, she moved to the Chelsea Ladies and two years later to the United States to the St. Louis Athletica club, which had only been founded a year earlier .

In the summer of 2018, Aluko moved to Juventus Turin in the Italian Serie A and managed with the team coached by Rita Guarino to defend the title won the previous year in 2018/19. She was the most successful goalscorer in her team with 14 goals. In addition, Aluko celebrated winning the Coppa Italia with Juve . She returned to England at the end of November 2019, six months before the end of the contract. As a reason for this decision, she gave that racism in Italy is part of the fan culture. In addition: "I'm tired of being looked at like a possible robber in shops", and at some point you get tired of being "treated like Pablo Escobar by the sniffer dogs" at the Turin airport.

National team

Aluko in the national jersey (2014)

With the national team, Aluko took part in both the 2005 European Championship , the 2007 World Championship and the 2009 European Championship , where she was vice European champion and scored three goals. She was also nominated for the 2011 World Cup . In the first two games against Mexico and New Zealand , she was in the starting line-up, but was substituted for New Zealand in the second half. Against Japan she was only substituted on in the 62nd minute, but could not set any accents in the game. In the quarter-finals, in which England were eliminated on penalties against France , it was not used.

In 2012 she was part of Team GB , which participated in the Olympic Games in London . She was used in all four games, but was eliminated in the quarterfinals against Canada.

She was also in the English squad for the 2013 European Championship in Sweden and was used in the three games in which she scored a goal.

As part of the SheBelieves Cup 2016 , she made her 100th international match for England in the last game in a 0-0 win against France.

successes

Web links

Commons : Eniola Aluko  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://orf.at/stories/3145886/
  2. ↑ TheFA: Powell names World Cup squad
  3. ↑ thefa.com: "England finish third at SheBelieves Cup after France draw"
personal data
SURNAME Aluko, Eniola
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH Lagos , Nigeria