Abbie Prosser

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Abbie Prosser
Personal information
Full name Abbie Prosser [1]
Date of birth (1991-09-04) 4 September 1991 (age 33) [2]
Place of birth England
Height1.72 m (5 ft 7+1⁄2 in) [3]
Position(s) Midfielder
Youth career
2001–2008 Arsenal
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2008–2010 Arsenal 2 (0)
2010–2011 Barnet
2011 Doncaster Rovers Belles 7 (0)
2011–2013 Barnet
International career‡
2009–2010 England under 19 18 (1)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 15 July 2013 (UTC)

Abbie Prosser (born 4 September 1991) [3] is an English former association football midfielder, [4] who played for Arsenal, Barnet and Doncaster Rovers Belles. [3] Prosser has represented the England women's national football team at under-19 level. [4]

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Club career

Prosser started off playing for Arsenal Ladies from the age of nine in 2001, and made her first team debut in a 5–0 FA Women's Premier League win at Fulham on 19 March 2009. [5]

She signed for Barnet in summer 2010, [6] winning the 2010–11 FA Women's Premier League Cup, [7] before moving to play for Doncaster Rovers Belles in May 2011, [8] where she made seven Women's Super League appearances. [3]

International career

For the England women's national under-19 football team, Prosser played 18 matches, scoring one goal. [4] Prosser was in the England 2010 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup squad in Germany. [1]

Family

Prosser is the sister of Luke Prosser, who is also a footballer. [8] Luke revealed in 2019 that Abbie had stopped playing after falling out of love with football. [9]

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  2. ↑ "Abbie Prosser". Footballzz. Retrieved 15 July 2013.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "A. Prosser". SoccerWay. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 15 July 2013.
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  5. ↑ "23. Abbie Prosser". Arsenal F.C. Archived from the original on 22 August 2009. Retrieved 11 January 2025.
  6. ↑ "Barnet F.C. Ladies - First Team Squad - 2010/11". Barnet F.C. Ladies. Archived from the original on 5 September 2011. Retrieved 11 January 2025.
  7. ↑ "Barnet lifts Premier League Cup trophy after upsetting Nottingham Forest". Our Game. 24 March 2011. Retrieved 11 January 2025.
  8. 1 2 "Belles Secure Prosser Signing". Doncaster Rovers Belles. 11 May 2011. Archived from the original on 31 May 2011. Retrieved 16 July 2013.
  9. ↑ Hynter, David (23 September 2019). "Colchester's Luke Prosser: 'My family are Spurs and they were going mad'". The Guardian . Retrieved 11 January 2025. "Abbie had a trial at Arsenal Ladies when she was little – she turned up in her Spurs kit – and she was signed within five minutes. But she ended up falling out of love with playing."


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