Christabel Oduro

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Christabel Oduro
Personal information
Full name Christabel Oppong Oduro
Date of birth (1992-11-01) November 1, 1992 (age 31)[1]
Place of birth Brampton, Ontario, Canada
Height 1.60 m (5 ft 3 in)
Position(s) Forward
Team information
Current team
 Beşiktaş
Number 12
Youth career
2004–? Brampton Brams United[2]
College career
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2010–2013 Memphis Tigers 84 (47)
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2010 Toronto Lady Lynx
2011 Hamilton Rage FC
2014 Ottawa Fury
2015–2016 Herforder SV 20 (10)
2016 Woodbridge Strikers 13 (12)
2016–2019 Ramat HaSharon
2019–2020 IFK Kalmar 21 (8)
2020–2021 Birkirkara 10[3] (7[3])
2021 Grindavík 17[4] (14[4])
2021 Woodbridge Strikers 5[5] (5[5])
2022 Víkingur 17 (12)
2022–2023 Beşiktaş 16[6] (2[6])
2023– FC Nantes
International career
2010–2012 Canada U20 9 (2)
2013 Canada 5 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 15:49, 18 May 2023 (UTC)

Christabel Oppong Oduro (born November 1, 1992) is a Canadian soccer player who plays as a forward for French club FC Nantes. She has made five appearances for the Canada women's national soccer team and played domestic football in Canada, the United States, Germany, Israel, Sweden,[7] Malta and Turkey.

Personal life[edit]

Oduro is from Brampton, Ontario, Canada.[1] She has Ghanaian heritage, as both of her parents where born in Ghana,[1] and is the cousin of Ghanaian international soccer player Dominic Oduro.[8] Oduro attended St. Thomas Aquinas Secondary School, where aside from soccer, she played basketball as a guard, volleyball, and participated in cross-country running.[9] She studied at the University of Memphis, where she joined their soccer program.[10]

Club career[edit]

In 2014, Oduro signed for Ottawa Fury.[11] In 2015, she signed for German team Herforder SV Borussia Friedenstal (HSV).[12] She scored 10 goals in 20 games for HSV,[13] before leaving the club in 2016 to return to Canada for personal reasons.[14] In 2016, she made 13 appearances and scored 12 goals for the Woodbridge Strikers in League1 Ontario that year.[15] From 2016 to 2019, Oduro played for Israeli team Ramat HaSharon. Ramat HaSharon finished second in the Ligat Nashim twice whilst Oduro was playing with them, and she also won the Israeli Women's Cup with the club.[13] In 2019, she played for IFK Kalmar in the Swedish Elitettan;[8] she made 21 appearances and scored eight goals in the 2019 season.[13] In 2020, Oduro signed for Maltese club Birkirkara. In her second start for Birkirkara, she scored a hat-trick as Birkirkara beat Raiders Luxol 12–0.[16] She has also played for Birkirkara in the 2020–21 UEFA Women's Champions League.[17] In February 2021, Oduro signed for Icelandic 1. deild kvenna side Grindavík.[18] She scored 14 goals in 17 matches for Grindavík.[19] She later played for Woodbridge Strikers in the 2021 Women's League1 Ontario season.[5] Ahead of the 2022 1. deild kvenna season, she signed for Víkingur.[20] In October 2022, Oduro signed for Turkish team Beşiktaş.[6][21] In July 2023, Oduro joined French Division 2 Féminine side FC Nantes.[22]

International career[edit]

Oduro played for Canada under-20s at the 2012 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship, where Canada finished second.[13][23] She also represented them at the 2012 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup, where the team failed to reach the knockout stages of the competition.[24]

In March 2012, Oduro received her first call up to the Canada women's national soccer team.[23] She played for Canada in the 2013 Cyprus Women's Cup, where Canada finished second.[7] In total, Oduro has made five appearances, including four starts, for Canada.[1] All of her appearances for Canada were in non-competitive matches.[8] In 2019, Oduro said that she wanted to play for the Ghana women's national football team. She would be eligible as she has not yet played in a competitive fixture for Canada.[8] In 2022, Oduro said that she wanted to switch football nationalities to Ghana.[19]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d Christabel Oduro at the Canadian Soccer Association
  2. ^ "Pro: First Youth Registration List" (PDF).
  3. ^ a b "Player Statistics". Birkirkara. Retrieved March 20, 2021.
  4. ^ a b "Christabel Oduro". Football Association of Iceland. Retrieved September 21, 2021.
  5. ^ a b c "Christabel Oduro". League1 Ontario. Retrieved November 10, 2021.
  6. ^ a b c "Oyuncular - Futbolcular: Christabel Oppong Oduro". Türkiye Futbol Federasyonu (in Turkish). Retrieved October 26, 2022.
  7. ^ a b "Supervärvningar på gång till P18". Helagotland.se (in Swedish). January 18, 2017. Retrieved May 29, 2020.
  8. ^ a b c d "Canada's Christabel Oduro wants to switch nationality to Ghana". GhanaWeb. June 12, 2019. Retrieved May 29, 2020.
  9. ^ "10 Christabel Oduro". Go Tigers Go. University of Memphis Tigers. June 20, 2013. Archived from the original on August 19, 2014. Retrieved May 29, 2020.
  10. ^ "Oduro off to Memphis". Brampton Guardian. June 22, 2010. Retrieved May 29, 2020.
  11. ^ "Fury Sign 5 Canadian Internationals". USL Soccer. May 12, 2014. Archived from the original on August 19, 2014. Retrieved May 29, 2020.
  12. ^ "Neue Stürmerin kommt aus Kanada". Neue Westfälische [de] (in German). August 1, 2015. Retrieved May 29, 2020.
  13. ^ a b c d "C. Oduro". Soccerway. Retrieved June 1, 2020.
  14. ^ "Schlüter verlässt uns – Einigung mit Prüfer" (in German). Herforder SV Borussia Friedenstal. May 4, 2016. Archived from the original on July 1, 2016. Retrieved May 29, 2020.
  15. ^ "Christabel Oduro". League 1 Ontario. Retrieved May 29, 2020.
  16. ^ "Ghana striker Oduro bags hat-trick as Birkirkara thrash Raiders Luxol 12–0". Goal.com. October 22, 2020. Retrieved November 10, 2020.
  17. ^ "Oduro shines despite Birkirkara defeat against Olimpia Cluj". Goal.com. November 4, 2020. Retrieved November 10, 2020.
  18. ^ "Kanadískur framherji til liðs við Grindavík". Grindavík (in Icelandic). February 17, 2021. Retrieved March 6, 2021.
  19. ^ a b "Prolific Ghanaian striker Christabel Oduro ready to switch from Canada to play for Ghana". ModernGhana. March 8, 2022. Retrieved April 26, 2022.
  20. ^ Brynjar Ingi Erluson (February 17, 2022). "Oduro frá Grindavík í Víking (Staðfest)". Fótbolti.net (in Icelandic). Retrieved April 26, 2022.
  21. ^ "Christabel Oduro switches to Beşiktaş Vodafone". Beşiktaş. October 11, 2022. Retrieved October 26, 2022.
  22. ^ "LES NOUVEAUX VISAGES DE LA D2F" (in French). FC Nantes Women. July 25, 2023. Retrieved December 12, 2023.
  23. ^ a b "Canada WNT announces March roster". Canadian Soccer Association. March 17, 2012. Archived from the original on September 9, 2018. Retrieved May 29, 2020.
  24. ^ "Fail to advance". Brampton Guardian. August 28, 2012. Retrieved May 29, 2020.
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