Jade Boho Sayo (born 30 August 1986), known as Jade Boho or just Jade, is a former professional footballer who played as a forward. She has spent most of her club career in Spain, but also competed in England and Switzerland. Born and raised in Spain to a Spanish father and an Equatorial Guinean mother, she has represented Spain and Equatorial Guinea at under-19 and senior levels, respectively.
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Full name | Jade Boho Sayo | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date of birth | 30 August 1986 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Valladolid, Spain | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Position(s) | Striker | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Youth career | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2000–2003 | Orcasitas | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2003–2007 | Torrejón | 34+ | (19+) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2007–2013 | Rayo Vallecano | 138 | (44) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2013–2014 | Atlético Madrid | 28 | (12) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2014–2015 | Rayo Vallecano | 29 | (10) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2015 | Bristol Academy | 6 | (3) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2016 | Reading | 8 | (1) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2016–2018 | Madrid CFF | 22[a] | (14) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2018–2021 | Logroño | 76 | (28) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2021–2022 | Servette | 18 | (8) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2022–2023 | Alhama | 25 | (3) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
International career‡ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2003–2005 | Spain U-19 | 21 | (12) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2010–2018 | Equatorial Guinea | 13 | (18) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 20 May 2023.[1] ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 13 April 2014 |
Early life
editJade took the surnames of her mother, Lourdes Cristina Boho Sayo,[2][3] an Equatoguinean emigrant who received Spanish citizenship in August 1980,[3] and, five years later, played Oud Anna in the film Dust,[4] before Jade was born. Her father, whose name is unknown, was Spanish, from Valladolid, where Lourdes was working and living. Jade never met him.[5]
Club career
editSpain
editJade previously played for AD Torrejón CF.[6] and Rayo Vallecano,[7][8] winning three championships and one national cup and playing the UEFA Champions League with the latter.[9][10]
England
editIn summer 2015 Jade signed for Bristol Academy who were winless and at the bottom of the FA WSL table. Despite making long journeys for national team duty in Africa, she proved a prolific goalscorer and was hailed as "inspirational" by the team's coach.[11] When Bristol were relegated, Jade left the club to sign for Reading ahead of the 2016 FA WSL season[12] but her stay was short after making the decision to return to Madrid. Her last appearance for the club was on 30 October against Chelsea.
International career
editSpain U19
editJade was born and raised in Spain, but her mother is from Equatorial Guinea, so she was eligible to represent either country. She played in the Spanish team that won the 2004 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship, scoring the first goal of the final match against Germany.[13]
Equatorial Guinea
editJade has been a member of the Equatoguinean senior team since 2010.[14] Because Jade competed for Spain in the 2004 FIFA U-19 Women's World Championship, scoring two goals in the second match, she had been registered as a Spanish player in FIFA's database.
Just days prior to the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup, FIFA temporarily suspended Jade from both international and club competition for two months, on the grounds that she was playing with Equatorial Guinea while having played with a Spanish national team within the past five years. Since the Equatoguinean Football Federation did not complete the process of changing her FIFA-registered nationality in a timely manner, she was declared ineligible, and Equatorial Guinea were also removed from qualifying for the 2012 Summer Olympics as a result.[15] In September 2011 she announced she would not play for Equatorial Guinea anymore.[16] However, Jade reversed her decision a year later, to go to Malabo for a friendly match against the Democratic Republic of the Congo in June 2012. She then won the African Championship that year.[17]
International goals
editScores and results list Equatorial Guinea's goal tally first
Honours
editClub
edit- Rayo Vallecano
International
edit- Spain U-19
- Equatorial Guinea
- African Women's Championship: 2012; runner-up: 2010
Personal life
editAlthough born in Valladolid, Jade feels Madrilenian as she has lived in Madrid since she was three months old.[19] She is openly lesbian.[19]
References
editNotes
- ^ Does not include league appearances from the 2016-2017 season.
Citations
- ^ Jade Boho at Soccerway. Retrieved 27 July 2021.
- ^ "Jade: "El pase a Natalia lo di con el corazón"". 5 May 2010.
- ^ a b "PDF - BOE.es" (PDF).
- ^ Lourdes Cristina Boho Sayo at IMDb
- ^ "Jade Boho Sayo, sangre pucelana con Guinea Ecuatorial". Archived from the original on 5 March 2012. Retrieved 2 December 2010.
- ^ "El Torrejón exprime su gran cantera para sobrevivir en la élite" [Torrejón squeezes its large youth system to survive in the elite] (in Spanish). Diario AS. 2 November 2004. Retrieved 1 December 2010.
- ^ [1] Archived 24 May 2010 at the Wayback Machine Rayo Vallecano official website (in Spanish)
- ^ "Jade Boho Sayo, sangre pucelana con Guinea Ecuatorial" [Jade Boho Sayo, blood of Valladolid with Equatorial Guinea] (in Spanish). El Día de Valladolid. 1 December 2010. Archived from the original on 5 March 2012. Retrieved 2 December 2010.
- ^ Jade Boho – UEFA competition record (archive)
- ^ Jade Boho is Atlético Madrid's latest signing. Atlético's official website3 August 2013
- ^ Aloia, Andrew (6 August 2015). "Willie Kirk: Jade Boho Sayo can inspire Bristol Academy survival". BBC Sport. Retrieved 25 January 2016.
- ^ "Jade Boho-Sayo: Reading sign Bristol City Women forward". BBC Sport. 8 January 2016. Retrieved 25 January 2016.
- ^ [2] Goals of the 2004 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship's final match
- ^ "Del fútbol no puedes vivir y tienes que prepararte otra cosa para el futuro | - SÍ, SE PUEDE - Noticias para inmigrantes en España" (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 20 July 2011. Retrieved 26 October 2010.
- ^ Chappell, Bill (30 June 2011). "Women's World Cup 2011: A Quick Guide". NPR. NPR. Retrieved 17 May 2022.
- ^ Roldán, Isabel (10 September 2011). "Jade: "No volveré a jugar con Guinea Ecuatorial"" (in Spanish). Diario AS. Retrieved 13 December 2018.
- ^ "Equatorial Guinea wins the African Women Championship 2012". Womens Soccer United. 12 November 2012. Retrieved 21 July 2022.
- ^ "Live Scores - Equatorial Guinea - Women's - Matches (2011)". FIFA.com. Archived from the original on 30 April 2018.
- ^ a b Leone, Alessandro (22 February 2020). "Jade Boho, una gran goleadora entre muchas adversidades". AS (in Spanish). Retrieved 2 July 2020.