Lucy Bronze
Lucia Roberta Tough Bronze is an English footballer who plays as a right-back for Manchester City and the England national team. She has previously played for Sunderland, Everton, Liverpool, and Olympique Lyonnais as well as the North Carolina Tar Heels at college level in the United States. Bronze has won three UEFA Women’s Champions League titles and three FA Women’s Super League titles with Liverpool and Manchester City. In 2019, she became the first English footballer to win the UEFA Women’s Player of the year award.
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Lucia Roberta Tough Bronze is an English footballer who plays as a right-back for Manchester City and the England national team. She has previously played for Sunderland, Everton, Liverpool, and Olympique Lyonnais as well as the North Carolina Tar Heels at college level in the United States. Bronze has won three UEFA Women’s Champions League titles and three FA Women’s Super League titles with Liverpool and Manchester City. In 2018 and 2020, Bronze was named BBC Women’s Footballer of the Year. She won the Silver Ball at the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup in France, helping England to a third place finish, and was named to the All-Star Squad at the 2015 FIFA World Cup. In 2019, she became the first English footballer to win the UEFA Women’s Player of the year award. She was named The Best FIFA Women”s Player in December 2020. Bronze began playing for Sunderland at under-12 academy level and joined the senior team when she turned 16 in 2007. She previously captained the under-16 team. Bronze represented England at all youth levels before featuring in the full national squad at Euro 2013. In 2007–08, she was named Manager’s Player of. the Year as Sunderland finished third in the FA Women� Premier League Northern Division. The next season she helped them win the Northern Division and gain promotion to the National Division.
That summer, Bronze moved to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to study at the university and play for the Division 1 team, the most successful Division 1 side in the country. She scored three goals in 24 games and was awarded All-American honours. She then returned to Sunderland in the Premier League National Division, where she played until 2010. In 2011, Bronze competed in six matches for Everton during the 2011 FA WSL season. In November 2012, Bronze left Everton to sign for local rivals Liverpool, following Natasha Dowie and Fara Williams who had made the same move days earlier. Bronze was part of the Liverpool side that won the FA W SL in 2013 and again in 2014. In 2014, she won the PFA Women’s Players’ Player of The Year award. In 2016, she scored two goals as the Blues qualified for the UEFA women’s Champions league for the first time. She also helped Manchester City to their second league win in three years, scoring the winning goal in the semi-finals of the 2016 edition of the Champions League. She played a part in both the home and away leg of the semi finals of that competition, scoring two goals and assisting two in a 6–0 aggregate win over Russian champions Zvezda Perm.
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