Christabel Oduro

Christabel Oppong Oduro (born November 1, 1992)[1] is a Canadian soccer player who plays as a forward for Swedish club IFK Kalmar. She has made five appearances for the Canada women's national soccer team and played domestic football in Canada, the United States, Germany, Israel and Sweden.[2]

Christabel Oduro
Personal information
Full name Christabel Oppong Oduro
Date of birth (1992-11-01) November 1, 1992
Place of birth Brampton, Ontario, Canada
Height 1.60 m (5 ft 3 in)
Playing position(s) Forward
Club information
Current team
 IFK Kalmar
College career
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2010–2013 Memphis Tigers 84 (47)
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2014 Ottawa Fury
2015–2016 Herforder SV 20 (10)
2016 Woodbridge Strikers 13 (12)
2016–2019 Ramat HaSharon
2019– IFK Kalmar 21 (8)
National team
2010–2012 Canada U20 9 (2)
2013 Canada 5 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of May 29, 2020

Personal life

Oduro is from Brampton, Ontario, Canada.[1] She has Ghanaian heritage and is the cousin of Ghanaian international soccer player Dominic Oduro.[3] Oduro attended St. Thomas Aquinas Secondary School, where aside from soccer, she played basketball as a guard, volleyball, and participated in cross-country running.[4] She studied at the University of Memphis, where she joined their soccer program.[5]

Career

Club career

In 2014, Oduro signed for Ottawa Fury.[6] In 2015, she signed for German team Herforder SV Borussia Friedenstal (HSV).[7] She scored 10 goals in 20 games for HSV,[8] before leaving the club in 2016 to return to Canada for personal reasons.[9] In 2016, she made 13 appearances and scored 12 goals for the Woodbridge Strikers in League1 Ontario that year.[10] From 2016 to 2019, Oduro played for Israeli team Ramat HaSharon. Ramat HaSharon finished second twice whilst Oduro was playing with them, and she also won the Israeli Women's Cup with the club.[8] In 2019, she played for IFK Kalmar in the Swedish Elitettan;[3] she made 21 appearances and scored eight goals in the 2019 season.[8]

International career

Oduro played for Canada under-20s at the 2012 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship, where Canada finished second.[8][11] 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.[12]

In March 2012, Oduro received her first call up to the Canada women's national soccer team.[11] She played for Canada in the 2013 Cyprus Women's Cup, where Canada finished second.[2] In total, Oduro has made five appearances, including four starts, for Canada.[1] All of her appearances for Canada were in non-competitive matches.[3] 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.[3]

References
  1. "Christabel Oduro". Canadian Soccer Association. Retrieved May 29, 2020.
  2. "Supervärvningar på gång till P18". Helagotland.se (in Swedish). January 18, 2017. Retrieved May 29, 2020.
  3. "Canada's Christabel Oduro wants to switch nationality to Ghana". GhanaWeb. June 12, 2019. Retrieved May 29, 2020.
  4. "10 Christabel Oduro". Go Tigers Go. University of Memphis Tigers. June 20, 2013. Archived from the original on September 9, 2018. Retrieved May 29, 2020.
  5. "Oduro off to Memphis". Brampton Guardian. June 22, 2010. Retrieved May 29, 2020.
  6. "Fury Sign 5 Canadian Internationals". USL Soccer. May 12, 2014. Retrieved May 29, 2020.
  7. "Neue Stürmerin kommt aus Kanada". Neue Westfälische (in German). August 1, 2015. Retrieved May 29, 2020.
  8. "C. Oduro". Soccerway. Retrieved June 1, 2020.
  9. "Schlüter verlässt uns – Einigung mit Prüfer" (in German). Herforder SV Borussia Friedenstal. May 4, 2016. Retrieved May 29, 2020.
  10. "Christabel Oduro". League 1 Ontario. Retrieved May 29, 2020.
  11. "Canada WNT announces March roster". Canadian Soccer Association. March 17, 2012. Retrieved May 29, 2020.
  12. "Fail to advance". Brampton Guardian. August 28, 2012. Retrieved May 29, 2020.
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