Lucy Bronze

Lucia Roberta Tough Bronze (born 28 October 1991) is an English footballer who plays as a right-back for English club Manchester City and the England national team. She has previously played for Sunderland, Everton, Liverpool, and Olympique Lyonnais as well as the North Carolina Tar Heels at college level in the United States. Bronze has won three UEFA Women's Champions League titles with Olympique Lyonnais as well as three FA Women's Super League titles with Liverpool and Manchester City.

Bronze represented England at all youth levels before featuring in the full national squad at Euro 2013. She won the Silver Ball at the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup in France, helping England to a fourth place finish, and was named to the All-Star Squad at the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup in Canada, in which England finished third. She has won the PFA Women's Players' Player of the Year award twice – in 2014 and 2017.

In 2018 and 2020, Bronze was named BBC Women's Footballer of the Year. In 2019, she became the first English footballer to win the UEFA Women's Player of the Year Award. Bronze was named The Best FIFA Women's Player in December 2020

Early career

Bronze played with Alnwick Town A.F.C. to the under-11 level, but F.A. rules prevented her from continuing with the boys team.She began playing for Sunderland at under-12 academy level and joined the senior team when she turned 16 in 2007.She previously captained the under-16 team. In 2007–08, Bronze was named Manager's Player of the Year as Sunderland finished third in the FA Women's Premier League Northern Division.The next season she helped them win the Northern Division and gain promotion to the National Division.Bronze also appeared in the 2009 FA Women's Cup final,claiming the Player of the Match award in Sunderland's 2–1 defeat to Arsenal.

That summer, Bronze moved to the United States to study at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and play for the North Carolina Tar Heels women's soccer team, the most successful Division 1 team in the country. She won a scholarship from coach Anson Dorrance after impressing him during several soccer camps. Bronze featured prominently in the midfield for the team, eventually becoming the first British player to win an NCAA Cup in December 2009. All-American honours followed for Bronze, who scored three goals in 24 games.She then returned to Sunderland in the Premier League National Division.