Sarah Abu-Sabbah

Sarah Abu-Sabbah
Personal information
Date of birth (1999-10-27) October 27, 1999
Place of birth Düsseldorf, Germany
Playing position Midfielder
Club information
Current team
 Bayer Leverkusen II
Youth career
2014–2015 SGS Essen U17
2015–2016 Bayer Leverkusen U17
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2014–2016 Bayer Leverkusen 1 (0)
2017– Bayer Leverkusen II
National team‡
2016 Jordan U17 3 (1)
2017– Jordan 4 (1)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 20 April 2018

Sarah Abu-Sabbah is a Jordanian footballer who plays for Bayer Leverkusen.[1] She has also played for the Jordan under-17 team that played in the 2016 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup and the senior national team of Jordan.

Early life

Abu-Sabbah was born in October 27, 1999[2] in Düsseldorf, Germany. Her father migrated to Germany in 1994. She started playing football at age 4 with her mother registering her at a boy's football club.[3]

Youth career

Abu-Sabbah played for the youth teams of SGS Essen and Bayer Leverkusen at the U17 Bundesliga South/SouthWest division in the 2014–15 and 2015-16 season respectively.

Club career

In March 20, 2016 she made her first appearance for the senior team of Bayer Leverkusen at the Frauen-Bundesliga,[2] becoming the first female Jordanian to play in a league outside Jordan[3] and the first Arab to play in the German women's league.[4] She only played in one match. In 2017, she is playing for Bayer Leverkusen II of third-tier league Regionalliga West.[5]

International career

Abu-Sabbah first joined the Jordan U-17 team in 2015.[4] At the 2016 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup which was hosted in Jordan, Abu-Sabbah debuted for the under-17 team of Jordan in the match against Spain.[6] She later scored the first ever goal of the Jordan U-17 team in the tournament in their 1-4 lost to Mexico.[3]

She debuted for the senior team in September 2017 in the 2-1 friendly win against Latvia in Riga.[5] She was among the players that represented Jordan at the 2018 AFC Women's Asian Cup.[1][7]

References

  1. 1 2 "Group A - Final squad list". the-afc.com. 29 March 2018. Retrieved 29 March 2018.
  2. 1 2 "Sarah Abu Sabbah". DFB Data Center. Deutscher Fußball-Bund. Retrieved 7 April 2018.
  3. 1 2 3 Freij, Muath (8 October 2016). "Sara Abu Sabbah's passion for football brings her closer to Jordan". The Jordan Times. Retrieved 7 April 2018.
  4. 1 2 "Jordan's Abu-Sabbah proud to make history". FIFA. 4 October 2016. Retrieved 7 April 2018.
  5. 1 2 "Sarah (17): Nationalspielerin Aus der 3.Liga" [Sarah (17): National team player of 3. Liga]. Fussball.de (in German). 22 October 2017. Retrieved 7 April 2018.
  6. ↑ "Sarah ABU-SABBAH". FIFA. Retrieved 7 April 2018.
  7. ↑ "AFC Women's Asian Cup : Jordan 1-2 Philippines (Lineups)". Retrieved 7 April 2018.
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