Rola Badawiya

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Rola Badawiya
Personal information
Date of birth (1998-06-27) 27 June 1998 (age 27)
Place of birth Riverside, California, United States
Position(s) Forward
Team information
Current team
Perth Glory
College career
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2017–2018 Long Beach State Beach 39 (5)
2019–2020 California Baptist Lancers 34 (18)
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2021–2022 AS Roma
2022 Sydney Uni SFC 22 (13)
2023 Sydney FC 9 (1)
2023 North West Sydney Spirit FC 17 (5)
2023–2024 Central Coast Mariners FC 24 (8)
2024–2025 SC Braga 16 (2)
2025– Perth Glory 0 (0)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Rola Badawiya (born 27 June 1998) is an American professional soccer player who plays as a forward for Perth Glory in the A-League Women.

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Early life

Badawiya was born on 27 June 1998 in Riverside, California, United States. Born to Palestinian parents, she is the daughter of Yousef Badawiya. [1] Growing up, she attended Martin Luther King High School in the United States, where she played on the soccer team, helping them reach the quarter-finals of the 2016 CIF Southern Section Division II. [2]

Career

Badawiya started her career with Italian side AS Roma in 2021. In 2022, she signed for Australian side Sydney Uni SFC, where she made twenty-two league appearances and scored thirteen goals. Australian news website Beyond 90 wrote in 2023 that she was "well-known to followers of the NPL NSW competition, helping Sydney University win the 2022 Premiership in her first campaign with The Students. Along the way, she scored 13 goals and was named NPL NSW Player of the Year" while playing for the club. [3]

Subsequently, she signed for Australian side Sydney FC, where she made nine league appearances and scored one goal. The same year, she signed for Australian side North West Sydney Spirit FC, where she made seventeen league appearances and scored five goals. Ahead of the 2023–24 season, she signed for Australian side Central Coast Mariners FC, where she made twenty-four league appearances and scored eight goals. During the summer of 2024, she signed for Portuguese side SC Braga. [4]

References

  1. "Badawiya has Matildas on her mind, Gaza in her heart". The Canberra Times. 19 April 2024. Retrieved 16 May 2025.
  2. "ALL-AREA GIRLS SOCCER: King's Rola Badawiya is Player of the Year". The Press-Enterprise. 15 April 2016. Retrieved 16 May 2025.
  3. "Imports in the 2022-23 A-League Women's competition". Beyond 90. 30 January 2023. Retrieved 16 May 2025.
  4. "Rola Badawiya quer ser decisiva no Sp. Braga" [Rola Badawiya wants to be decisive at Sp. Braga] (in Portuguese). Record. 23 July 2024. Retrieved 16 May 2025.