RACHEL Daley is a professional footballer who plays in positions all over the field, including defence, midfield and attack.
Here we take a look at the football star’s impressive career.
Rachel Ann Daley is a 31-year-old professional footballer from Harrogate, England.
She plays in the FA Women’s Super League (WSL) for Aston Villa and the English national team.
Rachel signed a three-year deal with Aston Villa on August 9 2022, making her professional debut for the club on September 18 in a 4-3 win over Manchester City, scoring two goals.
She scored 22 goals in the 2022-23 WSL season, equalling Vivianne Miedema’s record for the most goals scored in a season and winning the Golden Boot.
Rachel also played for West Ham United on loan between September 3 2020 and January 11 2021.
Daly was chosen by Houston Dash as the sixth overall pick of the 2016 US National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) college draft, playing 16 games that season, tallying four goals and four assists.
In 2018, Rachel was voted team MVP and selected for the NWSL second XI.
She stayed at the cub until 2020 and was named captain, winning the Challenge Cup.
She also plays for the England national football team and represented Team GB in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, held in 2021 due to the Covid-19 pandemic. She was one of six defenders in the Olympic squad, appearing in all four matches and starting three of them.
Daly has represented England at the under-15, under-17, under-19, and under-23 levels. She was part of the under-17 FIFA Women’s World Cup team, which finished fourth in New Zealand in 2008.
After progressing through the youth levels, Rachel made her senior debut in 2016, scoring in a 7-0 victory over Serbia in the UEFA Women’s Euro 2017 qualifier.
Daly was named as part of the squad for the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand.
