Sarah Abu-Sabbah

Sarah Basem Najem Abu-Sabbah (born 27 October 1999) is a German-born Jordanian footballer who plays for Borussia Mönchengladbach.[2] 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.

Sarah Abu-Sabbah
Personal information
Full name Sarah Basem Najem Abu-Sabbah
Date of birth (1999-10-27) 27 October 1999
Place of birth Düsseldorf, Germany
Height 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)[1]
Position(s) Midfielder
Club information
Current team
 Borussia Mönchengladbach
Youth career
2014–2015 SGS Essen U17
2015–2016 Bayer Leverkusen U17
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2014–2016 Bayer Leverkusen 1 (0)
2017–2018 Bayer Leverkusen II
2018– Borussia Mönchengladbach 30 (8)
National team‡
2016 Jordan U17 3 (1)
2017– Jordan 4 (1)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 1 March 2020
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 20 April 2018

Early life

Abu-Sabbah was born on October 27, 1999[3] 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.[4]

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

On March 20, 2016 she made her first appearance for the senior team of Bayer Leverkusen at the Frauen-Bundesliga,[3] becoming the first female Jordanian to play in a league outside Jordan[4] and the first Arab to play in the German women's league.[5] She only played in one match. In 2017, she is playing for Bayer Leverkusen II of third-tier league Regionalliga West.[6]

International career

Abu-Sabbah first joined the Jordan U-17 team in 2015.[5] 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.[7] She later scored the first ever goal of the Jordan U-17 team in the tournament in their 1-4 loss to Mexico.[4]

She debuted for the senior team in September 2017 in the 2-1 friendly win against Latvia in Riga.[6] She was among the players that represented Jordan at the 2018 AFC Women's Asian Cup.[2][8]

International goals
Scores and results list Jordan's goal tally first.
No.DateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition
1.12 April 2018Amman International Stadium, Amman, Jordan China PR1–11–82018 AFC Women's Asian Cup

References
  1. "List of Players" (PDF). FIFAdata. 20 October 2016. p. 8. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 February 2017. Retrieved 24 June 2020.
  2. "Group A - Final squad list". the-afc.com. 29 March 2018. Retrieved 29 March 2018.
  3. "Sarah Abu Sabbah". DFB Data Center. Deutscher Fußball-Bund. Retrieved 7 April 2018.
  4. Freij, Muath (8 October 2016). "Sara Abu Sabbah's passion for football brings her closer to Jordan". The Jordan Times. Retrieved 7 April 2018.
  5. "Jordan's Abu-Sabbah proud to make history". FIFA. 4 October 2016. Retrieved 7 April 2018.
  6. "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.
  7. "Sarah ABU-SABBAH". FIFA. Retrieved 7 April 2018.
  8. "AFC Women's Asian Cup : Jordan 1-2 Philippines (Lineups)". Retrieved 7 April 2018.


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