Stephanie Al-Naber
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Stephanie Mazen Yousef Al-Naber | ||
Date of birth | 12 July 1987 | ||
Place of birth | Amman, Jordan | ||
Height | 1.62 m (5 ft 4 in) | ||
Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | Shabab Al-Ordon | ||
Number | 8 | ||
Youth career | |||
Shabab Al-Ordon | |||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2004– | Shabab Al-Ordon | ||
2009–2010 | → Fortuna Hjørring (loan) | ||
2014 | → Al Sadaka Beirut (loan) | ||
International career‡ | |||
2005– | Jordan | 95 | (58) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 12:24, 9 April 2017 (UTC) |
Stephanie Mazen Yousef Al-Naber (born 27 October 1988) is a Jordanian footballer who plays as a midfielder for local Women's League club Shabab Al-Ordon and the Jordan women's national team, where she serves as its captain.[1]
Career
Al Naber learned to play football in the street with her family.[2] She later played on her school's team and began her career with Shabab Al-Ordon, one of the first Jordanian clubs in the country to start a women's team.[2] Al-Naber later became the first Jordanian woman to play football in leagues abroad. She played for clubs in Denmark, United Arab Emirates, and Lebanon. She has been a main-stay of the Jordan women's national football team since its inception in 2005 and helped the national team win the West Asian Football Federation Women's Championship in 2005, 2007, and 2014 as well as the 2010 Arabia Women's Cup. Al Naber was part of the Jordan national squads that played in the 2006, 2010, and 2014 Asian Games. She was also part of the squad that participated in the 2014 AFC Women's Asian Cup qualifiers helping Jordan qualify for the continental tournament for the first time.[3]
Personal life
As of January 2017, Al-Naber's father is a director at Shabab Al-Ordon while her brother Yousef is a professional footballer who plays for Amman-based club Al-Faisaly. Her sister Natasha also plays on the national team.[3][1]
References
- ^ a b "Realising a Dream:Stephanie Al-Naber". The AFC. 9 April 2018. Retrieved 9 November 2018.
- ^ a b "Football : en Jordanie, la pelouse se féminise" (in French).
- ^ a b "Al Naber: Jordan are aiming higher and higher". FIFA. 27 January 2017. Retrieved 3 April 2018.
External links
- Stephanie Al-Naber at Soccerway
- 1980s births
- Living people
- Jordanian women's footballers
- Jordan women's international footballers
- Sportspeople from Amman
- Women's association football midfielders
- Footballers at the 2006 Asian Games
- Footballers at the 2010 Asian Games
- Footballers at the 2014 Asian Games
- Jordanian expatriate footballers
- Jordanian expatriates in Denmark
- Expatriate women's footballers in Denmark
- Jordanian expatriate sportspeople in the United Arab Emirates
- Expatriate footballers in the United Arab Emirates
- Jordanian expatriate sportspeople in Lebanon
- Expatriate women's footballers in Lebanon
- Fortuna Hjørring players
- Jordanian women's futsal players
- Asian Games competitors for Jordan
- Jordanian women's football biography stubs