Aoife Horgan

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Aoife Horgan
Personal information
Full name Aoife Horgan
Date of birth (2003-01-17) 17 January 2003 (age 20)
Place of birth Ireland
Height 5 ft 1 in (1.55 m) [1]
Position(s) Forward
Team information
Current team
 CCSU Blue Devils
Number 13
Youth career
Listowel Celtic
College career
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2021– CCSU Blue Devils 11 (2)
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2019 Limerick
2020–2021 Treaty United
International career
2018− Republic of Ireland U17 1 (1)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Aoife Horgan (born 17 January 2003) is an Irish footballer who plays college soccer for the Central Connecticut Blue Devils women's soccer team and represents the Republic of Ireland women's national under-19 football team. [2]

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Club career

Early career

Horgan is from Listowel in County Kerry. [3] She played for Listowel Celtic under-12s when she was six years old, alongside her older sister Rebecca. [4]

Women's National League

Horgan joined Limerick WFC in 2019. On her début against Galway WFC, they lost 6–3 but Horgan got on the scoresheet. [5] Three months later against DLR Waves, Horgan was on the scoresheet again, not once but twice as she scored two in the last ten minutes to complete a comeback from 2–0 down to win 3–2. [6] When Limerick were dissolved she joined new club Treaty United WFC, who were based at the same site. She made her debut for them in a 5–0 loss to Peamount United. In her next game against DLR Waves, she scored her team's second goal in a 2–0 win.

By the end of the 2020 Women's National League season, Horgan was recognised as a promising striker and one of Treaty United's best players. [7] She was praised by club captain Marie Curtin: "She's so good. She scores goals and that is the hardest thing to do in football. She is dynamic on the turn and is such a naturally gifted footballer so it's huge for us to have someone of her capacity in the squad." [8]

College

Horgan accepted an offer to play four years of college soccer for the Central Connecticut State University "Blue Devils". At the 2021 Northeast Conference Women's Soccer Awards she was named to the Rookie Team of the Season. [9]

International career

Youth

Horgan represented Ireland at schoolgirl level in 2017–18 while she attended St. Joseph's Secondary School, Ballybunion. [10] Horgan was first called up for a 2019 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship qualification game against Albania in October 2018, but was an unused substitute in a 14–0 win. In her next call up, against the same opposition she came on in the 57th minute, and three minutes later she scored. She played well throughout the game and it finished 10–0.

With the Republic of Ireland women's national under-19 football team Horgan took part in the 2022 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship qualification section in October 2021. [11] [12]

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References

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  2. ↑ "Extratime.com - Extratime.ie - Aoife Horgan". www.extratime.com.
  3. ↑ "Listowel Sisters playing vital role with Treaty United". Radio Kerry. 7 June 2021. Retrieved 28 November 2021.
  4. ↑ Scully, Michael (16 April 2021). "Treaty sisters teaming up to potent effect in WNL". Daily Mirror . Retrieved 28 November 2021.
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  9. ↑ "Women's Soccer Headlines All-NEC Awards". Central Connecticut State University. 4 November 2021. Retrieved 28 November 2021.
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  11. ↑ "WU19 squad confirmed for EURO qualifiers". Football Association of Ireland. 17 October 2021. Retrieved 28 November 2021.
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