Daphne Koster
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Daphne Helena Koster | ||
Date of birth | 13 March 1981 | ||
Place of birth | The Hague, Netherlands | ||
Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||
Position(s) | Defender | ||
Youth career | |||
1987–2000 | SVA | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2000–2007 | Ter Leede | ||
2007–2010 | AZ | 56 | (8) |
2010 | Sky Blue FC | 18 | (0) |
2011 | AZ | 4 | (0) |
2011–2012 | Telstar | 8 | (1) |
2012–2017 | Ajax | 87 | (0) |
International career | |||
1997 | Netherlands U19 | ||
1997–2013 | Netherlands | 139 | (7) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Daphne Helena Koster (born 13 March 1981) is a retired Dutch football player, who played as a defender for Ajax in the Vrouwen Eredivisie.[1] She also played in the American Women's Professional Soccer (WPS) for Sky Blue FC.[2] A powerful centre back, she was the captain of both the Netherlands women's national football team and Ajax.[3][4]
Koster made her senior national team debut as a 16-year-old in August 1997 against Switzerland. At the time, she was playing for a boys' amateur club, SVA Assendelft, where she played until under-19 level.[5]
In 2009, Koster was a mainstay of the Dutch national team, which reached the semi-finals of UEFA Women's Euro 2009 in Finland.[6] In June 2013, national team coach Roger Reijners selected Koster for the Netherlands' squad for the UEFA Women's Euro 2013 in Sweden.[7]
International goals
- Scores and results list the Netherlands goal tally first.[8]
Goal | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
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1. | 20 March 2001 | Gemeentelijk Stadion, Kontich, Belgium | Belgium | 3–0 | 4–0 | Friendly |
2. | 10 May 2001 | West Lothian Courier Stadium, Livingston, Scotland | Scotland | 2–0 | 2–0 | |
3. | 13 August 2001 | Fortuna Wormerveer, Wormerveer, Netherlands | Finland | 2–1 | 2–1 | |
4. | 25 April 2004 | Den Dreef, Heverlee, Belgium | Belgium | 1–0 | 3–0 | 2005 UEFA Women's Euro qualification |
5. | 10 August 2008 | Caledonian Stadium, Pretoria, South Africa | South Africa | 1–0 | 2–1 | Friendly |
6. | 29 October 2009 | Oosterenkstadion, Zwolle, Netherlands | North Macedonia | 7–0 | 13–1 | 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification |
7. | 27 March 2010 | Polman Stadion, Almelo, Netherlands | Slovakia | 2–0 | 2–0 |
References
- ^ [1] SC Telstar
- ^ [2][permanent dead link] Women's Professional Soccer
- ^ [3] UEFA
- ^ [4] id.
- ^ "Daphne Koster". UEFA.com. UEFA. Archived from the original on 21 July 2013. Retrieved 21 July 2013.
- ^ Jungmann, Bart (13 April 2011). "Daphne Koster 'Ik was liever 24 gebleven, ideale leeftijd'" (in Dutch). de Volkskrant. Retrieved 21 July 2013.
- ^ "Trio miss cut in Netherlands squad". UEFA.com. UEFA. 30 June 2013. Retrieved 21 July 2013.
- ^ "Profile". onsoranje.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 22 December 2017.
External links
- Daphne Koster at Soccerway
- Profile (in Dutch) at OnsOranje
- 1981 births
- Living people
- Dutch women's footballers
- Netherlands women's international footballers
- Women's Professional Soccer players
- Expatriate women's soccer players in the United States
- Sky Blue FC (WPS) players
- Dutch expatriates in the United States
- FIFA Century Club
- Footballers from The Hague
- Eredivisie (women) players
- AFC Ajax (women) players
- Telstar (women's football club) players
- AZ Alkmaar (women) players
- Women's association football defenders
- Dutch expatriate women's footballers
- Dutch expatriate sportspeople in the United States
- Ter Leede players
- Dutch women's football biography stubs