Kim Little

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Kim Little
Kim Little 2017 (cropped) .jpg
Little in the Jersey of the Arsenal LFC (2017)
Personnel
birthday June 29, 1990
place of birth Aberdeen ,  Scotland
position Striker
Juniors
Years station
Buchan Girls FC
Women
Years station Games (goals) 1
2006-2008 Hibernian Edinburgh LFC
2008-2014 Arsenal LFC 40+ (23+)
2014-2016 Seattle Reign FC 67 (34)
2015-2016 →  Melbourne City FC  (loan) 12 0(9)
2017– Arsenal Women FC 35 (16)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
2007-2008 Scotland U-19 8 0(6)
2007– Scotland 137 (59)
2012 Great Britain 5 0(0)
1 Only league games are given.
Status: end of season 2019/20

2 As of August 30, 2019

Kim Little (born June 29, 1990 in Aberdeen ) is a Scottish football player . The striker has played for the English first division side Arsenal Women FC for the second time since January 2017 . She has been playing internationally for the Scottish national football team since 2007. In 2012 she took part in the Summer Olympics in London for Great Britain .

Career

Kim Little began her career with the Buchan Girls before moving to Edinburgh for the Hibernian Edinburgh LFC . After two seasons in the Scottish Women's Premier League , Little moved to England as the current national player for the Arsenal Ladies . There she won numerous titles with the club, including the English championship in 2011 and 2012. In the 2009/10 UEFA Women's Champions League , she reached the quarter-finals with Arsenal, where they were eliminated from defending champions FCR 2001 Duisburg . With nine goals she was one of the three third best goalscorers in the competition. A year later they even made it to the semi-finals, where they were eliminated from eventual winners Olympique Lyon . The 2011/12 and 2012/13 seasons also led to the semi-finals, where she scored the only goal for Arsenal in the two games against eventual winners VfL Wolfsburg . In 2013/14 , on the other hand , they were eliminated in the quarterfinals against league rivals Birmingham City LFC , but Little was only used in the sixteenth and sixteenth finals, where she scored five goals.

For the 2014 season, she moved to the North American National Women's Soccer League for Seattle Reign FC , where she initially signed a one-year contract with an option for another season. There she met her former coach Laura Harvey , who had already moved to Seattle from Arsenal LFC a year earlier. With Seattle Reign FC, she finished both the 2014 and 2015 seasons in first place, with her top scorer in 2014 with 16 goals. In both seasons she then reached the final in the NWSL Championship Play-offs, but lost this with her team against FC Kansas City . After the end of the US season, she moved to Australia on loan and became Australian champions with Melbourne City FC , to which she contributed nine goals as the second best goalscorer, u. a. one in a 4-1 Grand Final win over Sydney FC . She then returned to the United States, where she only scored six goals in the 2016 season and her team missed the playoffs as fifth in the league round.

After the end of the season, Little returned to Arsenal LFC, where she received a long-term contract. Due to an injury, she was only used in the second half of the 2017/18 season. The season ended in third place, missing the 2018/19 UEFA Women's Champions League . In 2018/19 Arsenal was able to win the championship again after seven years, to which Little contributed with eight goals in 14 games. Arsenal are now qualified for the 2019/20 UEFA Women's Champions League .

National team

For the Scottish national football team , Little made her debut against Japan in February 2007 when she was substituted on for Megan Sneddon . She scored her first goal a year later in a game against Russia in March 2008. In July 2012, she played for the first time in a friendly against Sweden and then for Great Britain as part of the 2012 Summer Olympics and formed a team with players from Northern Ireland , Scotland and England . In the first game of the GB team on July 19 against Sweden , she was in the starting line-up and was also used in four games at the Olympic Games .

On September 13, 2014 she made her 100th appearance in the Scottish national team in a 9-0 win against the Faroe Islands in the World Cup qualifying and scored the first goal in the sixth minute.

In qualifying for the 2017 European Championship , she scored five goals and qualified with her team for the first time for the finals , in which the Scottish women will meet England in their first game. Little himself was not part of the Scottish EM squad due to injury.

In qualifying for the 2019 World Cup , she was used in six games and with three goals helped the Scottish women to qualify for a World Cup finals for the first time. In the decisive game for the group victory against Switzerland on August 30, 2018, she had put her team 2-0 in the 5th minute with her 50th international goal (final score 2: 1). On May 15, she was nominated for the first Scottish women's World Cup squad. At the World Cup she was used in the three group games and scored the first goal in the third game against Argentina . Their team was able to increase to 3-0 in the second half, but then had to accept three goals, which meant that the Scottish women were eliminated.

On August 30, 2019, she scored five goals for the first time in an international match in the first qualifying match for the 2021 European Championship in an 8-0 win against Cyprus .

successes

Awards

  • Players' Player of the Year at the 2010 FA Women's Football Awards
  • Most valuable player of the 2014 NWSL season
  • Inclusion in the NWSL Best XI 2015
  • BBC Women's Footballer of the Year award for 2016

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Seattle Reign FC has signed Scottish International midfielder Kim Little , Seattle Reign FC's Facebook presence. Retrieved November 20, 2013.
  2. ↑ Melbourne City vs. Sydney 4 - 1
  3. ↑ arsenal.com: "Kim Little rejoins Arsenal Ladies"
  4. ↑ JAPAN v SCOTLAND scottishfa.co.uk (English)
  5. ↑ Soccerdonna.de: Great Britain is looking for the super team
  6. ↑ svenskfotboll.se: Lineups of the game Great Britain - Sweden
  7. ↑ scottishfa.co: "Scotland secure play-off place with 9-0 victory"
  8. ↑ scottishfa.co: "Kerr names historic SWNT squad for World Cup"
  9. ^ Scotland v Cyprus 8-0
  10. ↑ Key figures honored at Women's Awards

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Commons : Kim Little  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
personal data
SURNAME Little, Kim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION scottish soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH June 29, 1990
PLACE OF BIRTH Aberdeen , Scotland