Jessie Fleming named Canada Soccer player of the year
Jessie Fleming has been named Canada Soccer’s participant of the yr for the second yr in a row.
The 24-year-old midfielder from London, Ont., shared the ladies’s nationwide group lead with 5 targets in 2022 and led the squad with 17 appearances and 1,420 minutes performed.
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She was named to the event Best XI on the CONCACAF W Championship, the place she helped Canada win a silver medal. She tied with teammate Julia Grosso for the tournament-scoring lead with three targets, together with the winner in a semifinal win over Jamaica.
She additionally helped Canada qualify for the 2023 Women’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand.
Fleming made her first-ever begin as Canada’s captain in a February match towards England. She later earned her one centesimal cap whereas serving as captain in a 0-0 draw towards South Korea in a June 26 pleasant in Toronto.
At the membership stage, Fleming helped London-based Chelsea FC win the 2021-22 FA Women’s Super League and 2022 FA Cup.
Fleming, who’s in her tenth season with the senior girls’s group, has led Canada in minutes performed in every of the final two seasons and has scored 19 profession targets in 111 worldwide appearances.
She joins Charmaine Hooper and Christine Sinclair as back-to-back winners of the award.
The participant of the yr award is shared yearly by a member of the ladies’s nationwide group and a member of the lads’s group.
The males’s participant of the yr shall be introduced Thursday.
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