Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 6 February 1990 | ||
Place of birth | Kinshasa, Zaire | ||
Position(s) | Forward | ||
Club information | |||
Current team | FC Fleury 91 | ||
Number | 22 | ||
College career | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2010–2013 | Lee Flames | 19 | (4) |
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
Lolvido Rapids | |||
AIS | |||
Cape Town Angels | |||
Spurs Ladies | |||
2018 | ONS | 22 | (15) |
2019 | Málaga | 10 | (1) |
2020 | Åland United | 16 | (7) |
2021–2022 | Glasgow City | 10 | (7) |
2022- | FC Fleury 91 | 7 | (1) |
National team‡ | |||
2014– | South Africa | 10 | (1) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 21:50, 25 November 2022 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 11 October 2014 |
Ode Fulutudilu (born 6 February 1990) is a soccer player who plays as a forward for French club FC Fleury 91 and the South Africa women's national team. [1] She has previously played for clubs in South Africa, Finland and Spain, before joining Glasgow City in 2021. She made her debut for South Africa in 2014 and was a member of their 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup squad. Born in the Democratic Republic of Congo, she and her family initially arrived in South Africa as refugees.
Ode Fulutudilu was born in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, on 6 February 1990. When she was three years old, her family left the country due to unrest and went to neighbouring Angola as refugees, before moving on to Cape Town in South Africa the following year. Fulutudilu's father was unable to find work in South Africa and eventually returned to Angola, but left her behind as he felt she would have a better future there. She subsequently grew up in a children's home. Having become interested in football when she watched the South Africa men's national team playing in the 1998 World Cup, she joined her first organised girls' team. Through this she met a British volunteer (Joelle Holland) who subsequently became her foster mother, and was instrumental in her getting a scholarship to study in the United States at Lee University in Cleveland, Tennessee. [2]
Fulutudilu spent four years playing college soccer for the Lee Flames, the athletic team of Lee University, winning three regular season titles and two national titles. [3]
When she signed with Málaga in 2019, she became the first South African to play in the top tier of Spanish women's football. [4]
In January 2021, she left Finland to sign with Glasgow City in Scotland, joining fellow South African Janine van Wyk. However, due to COVID-19-related limits on football, she was not able to make her debut for the team until April. She would score hat-tricks in both her debut and second matches for Glasgow. [5]
She played for the Banyana Banyana at the 2014 African Women's Championship [6] She also represented South Africa at the 2019 World Cup, the country's first appearance in the tournament finals.
Fulutudilu has a bachelor's degree in sociology from Lee University.
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