Amy Lasu

Last updated

Amy Lasu
Personal information
Full name Amy Lasu Luaya Lasu [1]
Date of birth (1995-11-08) 8 November 1995 (age 26) [2]
Position(s) Midfielder [1]
National team
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2021– South Sudan 8 (3)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 4 October 2021. [1]

Amy Lasu Luaya Lasu (born 8 November 1995) is a South Sudanese footballer who plays as a midfielder for the South Sudan women's national team. [3] [4] [5] [6]

Contents

Early life

Lasu moved to Kenya in 1998, aged three. [7]

International career

Lasu capped for South Sudan at senior level during the 2021 COSAFA Women's Championship. [1]

Personal life

In 2018, Lasu earned a bachelor's degree in human resource management from Moi University. [7]

Related Research Articles

Sudan national football team

The Sudan national football team represents Sudan in international football and is controlled by the Sudan Football Association, the governing body for football in Sudan. Its home ground is Khartoum Stadium in the capital Khartoum. In 1957, it was one of the three teams to participate in the inaugural Africa Cup of Nations, the other two being Egypt and Ethiopia.

COSAFA Cup Football tournament

The COSAFA Cup or COSAFA Senior Challenge Cup is an annual tournament for teams from Southern Africa organized by Council of Southern Africa Football Associations (COSAFA), inaugurated after the ban against the Republic of South Africa had been lifted and the African Cup of Nations had been staged there in 1996.

The South Africa women's national soccer team, nicknamed Banyana Banyana, is the national team of South Africa and is controlled by the South African Football Association.

Soccer in South Africa

Association football, or soccer, as it is typically called in South Africa, is the nation's most popular sport and South Africa national soccer team is the nation's favourite sports team followed by rugby union and cricket. The governing body is the South African Football Association (SAFA), while the Premier Soccer League is the organisation responsible for running the country's two professional divisions, namely the South African Premier Division and the National First Division. The main cup competitions are the Nedbank Cup, Telkom Knockout, and the MTN 8 Cup.

Tanzania womens national football team Womens national association football team representing Tanzania

The Tanzania national women's football team, is the national team of Tanzania and is controlled by the Tanzania Football Federation. They are nicknamed the Twiga Stars.

Eswatini womens national football team Womens national association football team representing Eswatini

The Eswatini women's national football team represents Eswatini in international football for women.

The Botswana women's national football team nicknamed 'The Mares' (Female) is the women's national football team of Botswana and is controlled by the Botswana Football Association. They qualified for their maiden Africa Women Cup of Nations (AWCON) tournament that will be held in Morocco in July 2022.

South Sudan national football team Mens national association football team representing South Sudan

The South Sudan national football team represents South Sudan in international football and is controlled by the South Sudan Football Association, the governing body for football in South Sudan.

The Zimbabwe women's national football team is the national women's football team of Zimbabwe and is overseen by the Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA). As of June 2017, they are ranked 86th in the world.

The Comoros women's national football team is the national women's football team of Comoros and is overseen by the Comoros Football Federation. They played their first match on 28 October 2006.

The South Sudan women's national team represents South Sudan in international women's football.

Sudan womens national football team Womens national association football team representing Sudan

The Sudan Women's National Football Team is the official women's football team in Sudan, supported by the Sudan Football Association. The team first qualified for the 2021 Arab Women's Cup, organized by the Union of Arab Football Associations (UAFA) in Cairo, Egypt.

The following are the scheduled events of association football (soccer) for the year 2021 throughout the world.

The 2020 COSAFA Women's Championship is the eighth edition of the COSAFA Women's Championship, an women's international football tournament for national teams organised by COSAFA, teams from Southern Africa. It takes place from 3 to 14 November in the Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality, South Africa.

The 2021 COSAFA Women's Championship was 9th edition of the COSAFA Women's Championship, an women's international football tournament for national teams organised by COSAFA, teams from Southern Africa. It will take place from 28 September to 9 October 2021 in the Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality, South Africa.

This article lists the squads for the 2021 COSAFA Women's Championship, the 9th edition of the COSAFA Women's Championship. The tournament is a women's international football tournament for national teams organised by COSAFA, teams from Southern Africa, and was held in Nelson Mandela Bay from 28 September to 9 October 2021. In the tournament were involved twelve national teams: nine teams from COSAFA and three teams from CECAFA, who were invited as guests. Each national team registered a squad of 20 players.

The Sudan women's national football team is the representative women's association football team of Sudan. Its governing body is the Sudan Football Association (SFA) and it competes as a member of the Confederation of African Football (CAF). The national team's first activity was in 2021, when they played in the Arab Women's Cup.

Stumai Abdallah Athumani is a Tanzanian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for JKT Queens and the Tanzania women's national team.

Amina Ally Bilali is a Tanzanian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Yanga Princess and the Tanzania women's national team.

Enekia KasongaLunyamila is a Tanzanian professional footballer who plays as a striker for AUSFAZ in the Morocco Professional Women's League, and for the Tanzania women's national team.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Amy Lasu". Global Sports Archive. Retrieved 11 October 2021.
  2. "Amy Lasu". FBref. Retrieved 11 October 2021.
  3. "The journey: Amy Lasu dreams of playing for Olympic Lyon".
  4. "South Sudan's captain Amy Lasu relishing COSAFA Women's Championship Challenge".
  5. "Amy Lasu's Transfer to Determine Girls Delayed".
  6. "Amy Lasu bags a hat trick as El Merreikh thrashed Jamus Women's team".
  7. 1 2 Gacharira, Samuel (25 September 2021). "South Sudan: Amy Lasu - Shining Hope for South Sudanese Football". allAfrica. Retrieved 11 October 2021.