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Danny O'Brien has just come to the end of his second season in Finland. This season he played for top flight side SJK and also appeared for their under-23 side in the third tier. He scored 11 goals in 13 games for the U23s as well as making nine appearances for the first team. I …
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The regular season of the top three tiers of football in Sweden have now come to an end. All that's left to play now are the relegation/promotion playoff matches but before they begin, let's have a look at every Engishman who was involved in the top three flights of Swedish football in 2018. Click on …
"Go and create your own destiny." That was the advice given to Emma Lipman last year and she has been following it ever since. Following that message, the former Manchester City and Sheffield FC defender's career has now taken her to Italy where she is competing in Serie A alongside some of Italy's and the …
Not many footballers can claim to have had the career path that Tatiana Saunders had before taking up professional football. The 25-year-old goalkeeper played for England U19s when she was younger but it would several years after that before the sport became her sole focus again. "After university I worked on Wall Street for two …
Women's football in England has taken great strides lately with the top division of the Women's Super League now fully professional but over in the US, women's football has being taking giant leaps forward since the foundation of a new professional league in 2013. This year, the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) was the third …
Hannah Griffin was born in Tokyo and has been raised in Luxembourg but when it comes to national pride, she is certainly English, if her passion for playing for England is anything to go by. "I feel extremely grateful to be able to play for England, there is no greater honor than to represent my …
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Back in May, Siobhan Wilson and her Málaga teammates achieved promotion to the top flight of women's football in Spain where they would take on giants such as Barcelona and Atlético Madrid. In the crowd was one very proud father whose tough love and advice has helped the 24-year-old defender reach the heights she has …
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Twins Rio and Steffi Hardy have just finished their first season in senior football with Icelandic top flight side Grindavík. On a personal level, it was a season of success for the pair who have come a long way from their Workington roots over recent years. Back then it was five hour car journeys just to …
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George Lucas isn't just an English player abroad but also an English person abroad. He was just seven-years-old when his family left High Wycombe for a small village in the province of Valencia. It's now been 14 years since he left the UK and the move abroad has shaped his as much as a person …
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Not many players can say they made their debut for their boyhood club in Abu Dhabi but that was exactly what Greg Leigh did four years ago. The left back was 19-years-old when he came on as a substitute for Gaël Clichy during a 3-0 win over Al Ain in a post-season friendly for Manchester …
