Millie Bright

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Millie Bright
Millie Bright.jpg
Millie Bright in Chelsea FC dress
Personnel
birthday August 21, 1993
place of birth Chesterfield ,  England
size 175 cm
position Defense / midfield
Juniors
Years station
Killamarsh Dynamos
Sheffield United WFC
Women
Years station Games (goals) 1
2009-2014 Doncaster Belles LFC 32 (3)
2015– Chelsea ladies 78 (6)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
2011–2012 England U19 5 (0)
2013-2016 England U23 13 (0)
2016– England 34 (0)
1 Only league games are given.
Status: January 12, 2020

2 As of November 12, 2019

Millie Bright (born August 21, 1993 in Chesterfield ) is an English football player . She plays for the Chelsea Ladies in the FA Women's Super League and has been with the England team since 2016 .

Career

societies

In 2009 Bright moved from the Sheffield United Center of Excellence to the Doncaster Belles . After the 2014 season , in which she finished second with her team in WSL 2, she moved to the Chelsea Ladies , with whom she won the championship and the cup in her first season . Your team was thus directly qualified for the round of 32 of the 2015/16 UEFA Women's Champions League . In that, the Chelsea Ladies prevailed with two wins against the Scottish champions Glasgow City LFC , but then lost twice in the round of 16 against the German runner-up VfL Wolfsburg . The following season , the Chelsea Ladies were runner-up and qualified again for the 2016/17 UEFA Women's Champions League . Bright has made more appearances than any other Chelsea player during the season and has been used in various positions in midfield and defense. In the Champions League this time they met the Wolfsburg women in the round of sixteen. After a 3-0 home defeat, Wolfsburg scored 1-1, but this was not enough to make it to the next round. In 2017 the FA WSL was switched from a summer season to the rhythm of most other European leagues and the 2017 season was held as a "Spring Series" from February to May with eight games per team. The Chelsea Ladies finished first after these eight games thanks to the better goal difference over Manchester City. Bright was used in seven of the eight games. The new season started in September 2017 and ended with the championship for Chelsea in May 2018. At the same time, the ladies took part in the UEFA Women's Champions League 2017/18 . They eliminated the German runner-up FC Bayern Munich in the round of 16 with a 1-0 home game and a 1-2 away defeat due to the away goals rule . This was followed by two wins in the round of 16 against the Swedish runner-up FC Rosengård and two wins in the quarter-finals against the French runner-up HSC Montpellier . In the semifinals it was the last stop with two defeats against the Wolfsburg team. Bright was used in all eight games. In the 2018/19 UEFA Women's Champions League , she scored her first goal at European level in a 5-0 win against Bosnian champions SFK 2000 Sarajevo in the round of 32. With a 6-0 home win, in which it was not used for the first time in a game of the Champions League, the round of 16 was reached. Here the third of the Italian championship AC Florence was eliminated with 1-0 and 6-0. After the French runner-up Paris Saint-Germain was eliminated in the quarter-finals by a more scored goal, the tour of Europe ended in the semi-finals, where Chelsea failed against French champions Olympique Lyon due to a less scored goal. In the Super League, the season ended in third place.

National team

In June 2016 she took part with the U-23 team at the Nordic Cup in Burton-upon-Trent , where she finished second with her team behind the U-23 team in the USA.

Her first appearance in the senior national team was on September 20, 2016, in the last qualifying match for the 2017 European Championship against Belgium . She was substituted on for Karen Carney in the final minute . This was followed in January 2017 during a training camp in Spain against Norway and Sweden , at the SheBelieves Cup 2017 and in further preparation for the EM in the Netherlands. For the EM , it was as a field player with the fewest appearances for England nominated , was there but the three players who participated all five matches of the English team. Only in the last group game against Portugal was she substituted after 60 minutes. In the semi-finals, which were lost 3-0 to eventual European champions Netherlands , she scored an own goal in the fourth minute of stoppage time . In the successful qualification for the 2019 World Cup , it was used in four of eight games. She was also used in the three games at the SheBelieves Cup 2018 , where she again scored an own goal in a 2-2 draw against Germany .

Due to an injury, she could not be nominated for the SheBelieves Cup , which the English women won for the first time . It was only used again in 2019 in the 2-1 win against Spain . On May 8th she was nominated for the World Cup . At the World Cup, it was used in two group games as well as the eighth, quarter and semi-finals. Since she received the yellow-red card in the semi-finals , she could not be used in the game for third place. In the end, fourth place jumped out for her team.

successes

Awards

  • England Young Player of the Year 2016

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ussoccer.com: U-23 WNT Wins Nordic Tournament in England after 1-1 Draw with Hosts
  2. ↑ thefa.com: Lionesses douse Belgium's Red Flames to finish top
  3. ↑ thefa.com: Phil Neville names England Women's squad for the annual SheBelieves Cup
  4. ^ England get first win in Road to France Series with victory over Spain in Swindon
  5. ↑ thefa.com: England squad named for 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup
personal data
SURNAME Bright, Millie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH August 21, 1993
PLACE OF BIRTH Chesterfield , England