Salma Ghazal

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Salma Ghazal
Personal information
Full name Salma Mohanad Yousef Ghazal [1]
Date of birth (1998-10-19) 19 October 1998 (age 26) [2]
Place of birth Sugar Land, Texas [3]
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) [4]
Position(s) Goalkeeper [4] [2]
Team information
Current team
Houston Cougars
Number 1
College career
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2018–2019 Texas Southern Tigers 18 (0)
2020–2021 Houston Cougars [5] 9 (0)
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2019 Texas Titans [6]
International career
2018– Jordan 4 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 8 September 2019
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 9 April 2019

Salma Mohanad Yousef Ghazal (born 19 October 1998) is an American-born Jordanian footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for the Houston Cougars and the Jordan women's national team. Ghazal began her collegiate soccer career at Texas Southern University, where she ranked second nationally in NCAA saves per game and earned Goalkeeper of the Week honors in the Southwestern Athletic Conference. She later transferred to the University of Houston, where she became a standout player, earning a place on the American Athletic Conference Honor Roll and recording a shutout in her debut season [7]

Early life

Ghazal was raised in Sugar Land, Texas. [5]

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