Nicole Althea McClure (born 16 November 1989) is an American-born Jamaican footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Northern Irish club Sion Swifts and the Jamaica women's national team.[3][4]
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| Full name | Nicole Althea McClure[1] | |||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 16 November 1989 | |||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Jamaica, New York, United States[2] | |||||||||||||
| Height | 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)[1] | |||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Goalkeeper | |||||||||||||
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Current team | Sion Swifts | |||||||||||||
| Number | 1 | |||||||||||||
| Youth career | ||||||||||||||
| 2003–2007 | East Meadow Shooting Stars | |||||||||||||
| 2003–2007 | Cardozo Judges | |||||||||||||
| College career | ||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||
| 2007–2008 | Hawaii Rainbow Wahine | 16 | (0) | |||||||||||
| 2009–2011 | South Florida Bulls | 40 | (0) | |||||||||||
| Senior career* | ||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||
| 2010 | Tampa Bay Hellenic | 7 | (0) | |||||||||||
| 2012 | Selfoss | 16 | (0) | |||||||||||
| 2012–2013 | FC Neunkirch | 3 | (0) | |||||||||||
| 2013 | HK | 15 | (0) | |||||||||||
| 2014 | Östersunds | |||||||||||||
| 2015 | Klepp | 0 | (0) | |||||||||||
| 2015–2016 | F.C. Ramat HaSharon | 6 | (0) | |||||||||||
| 2016 | Osijek | 3 | (0) | |||||||||||
| 2016–2017 | CSFA Ambilly | |||||||||||||
| 2017 | ŽNK Split | |||||||||||||
| 2018 | Sundsvalls DFF | 20 | (0) | |||||||||||
| 2019– | Sion Swifts WFC | 18 | (1) | |||||||||||
| International career‡ | ||||||||||||||
| 2009– | Jamaica | 22 | (0) | |||||||||||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 28 September 2018 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 8 October 2018 | ||||||||||||||
Early life
editMcClure was born in Jamaica, Queens, on the state of New York, United States.[5] Her parents hail from Jamaica, in the Caribbean.[6] She grew up playing in the Long Island Junior Soccer League (LIJSL) for the Auburndale Strikers from 1998 to 2003 and the East Meadow Shooting Stars from 2003 to ’07. With the Shooting Stars, she won the Eastern New York Youth Soccer Association (ENYYSA) Girls-Under-15 State Open Cup final in 2005. Nicole also played for Eastern New York's Olympic Development Program (ODP). (AuburndaleSoccerclub.org)[7]
College career
editMcClure attended the University of Hawaii at Manoa and the University of South Florida.[2][5]
Club career
editDuring her college career, McClure played for Tampa Bay Hellenic. After that, she left the United States and played exclusively for clubs in Europe and Israel.[8][9]
International career
editMcClure made her senior debut for Jamaica in 2009.[10] She was a key player in the first ever Jamaican qualification to a FIFA Women's World Cup (the 2019 edition). Similar to Tim Krul for the Netherlands against Costa Rica in the 2014 FIFA Men's World Cup quarter finals, McClure was brought on by Hue Menzies as a 120th-minute substitute for the penalty shootout against Panama in the 2018 CONCACAF Women's Championship third place play-off. She saved two of the four penalties she faced as Jamaica won 4–2.[11]
References
edit- ^ a b "FIFA Women's World Cup France 2019™ List of Players - Jamaica" (PDF). FIFA. 27 May 2019. p. 12. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 June 2019. Retrieved 27 May 2019.
- ^ a b "Nicole McClure". Hawaii Athletics. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
- ^ http://www.laget.se/ODFF/News/3396872/4-fragor-till-Nicole-McClure [dead link]
- ^ "Nicole McClure nova vratarka ŽNK Splita - Ženski nogometni klub Split - Blog.hr".
- ^ a b "Nicole McClure - Women's Soccer". USF Athletics.
- ^ "'Proper Guinness, good craic and lots of hills' - Reggae Girlz hero chooses Strabane for World Cup warm-up". BBC Sport. 17 April 2019.
- ^ "Wayback Machine has not archived that URL". Retrieved 22 September 2023.[dead link]
- ^ "Nicole McClure nova vratarka ŽNK Splita" (in Croatian). 13 September 2017.
- ^ Nicole McClure – Israel Football Association league player details
- ^ "'Keeper Nicole Mcclure happy to give it real shot". Retrieved 22 September 2023 – via PressReader.
- ^ "Panama vs. Jamaica - 17 October 2018". Women Soccerway.
External links
edit- Nicole McClure at Soccerway