Maeline Mendy
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| Date of birth | 26 December 2006 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Nogent-sur-Marne, France | ||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Midfielder | ||||||||||||||||
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Current team | Lyon | ||||||||||||||||
| Number | 32 | ||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
| 2012–2017 | AS Val-de-Fontenay | ||||||||||||||||
| 2017–2022 | RC Joinville | ||||||||||||||||
| 2022– | Lyon | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 2023– | Lyon | 0 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| International career‡ | |||||||||||||||||
| 2022– | France U17 | 14 | (10) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 15 August 2023 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 26 May 2023 | |||||||||||||||||
Maeline Mendy (born 26 December 2006) is a French footballer who plays as a midfielder for Division 1 Féminine club Lyon and the France national under-17 team.
Early life[edit]
Born in Nogent-sur-Marne, Mendy started playing football at AS Val-de-Fontenay, where she played with the club's boys team. In 2017, she joined RC Joinville where she captained the U14 boys team before joining Lyon youth team in 2022.[1] She won the 2022-23 France national U-19 Women's Championship with Lyon.[2]
International career[edit]
In 2023, Mendy captained France under-17s during the 2023 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship.[3] She scored a hattrick and delivered 2 assists against Switzerland in the semi-finals and scored one goal in the final to help France winning the competition for the first time in their history.[4][5] Mendy scored in total 5 goals during the campaign and was the joint top scorer alongside her teammate Liana Joseph and Spanish team player Vicky López.[6]
Honours[edit]
France
Individual
- UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship top scorer: 2023[6]
- UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship Team of the Tournament: 2023[7]
References[edit]
- ^ "Maeline Mendy, jeune lyonne..." (PDF) (in French). A Fontenay. 6 June 2021. p. 20.
- ^ "U19F : nos jeunes Lyonnaises championnes de France !". www.ol.fr (in French). Retrieved 15 August 2023.
- ^ "Maeline Mendy : " Emmener l'équipe le plus haut possible "". www.fff.fr (in French). Retrieved 15 August 2023.
- ^ "Le but venu d'ailleurs de Maeline Mendy en demies de l'Euro féminin U17". Footeuses (in French). 25 May 2023. Retrieved 15 August 2023.
- ^ "L'équipe de France remporte l'Euro U17 féminin". L'Équipière (in French). 27 May 2023. Retrieved 15 August 2023.
- ^ a b c "Grâce aux lyonnaises Liana Joseph et Maeline Mendy, la France remporte l'Euro U17 féminin". lyonfoot.com (in French). 27 May 2023. Retrieved 15 August 2023.
- ^ "2023 Women's Under-17 EURO Team of the Tournament". UEFA.com. 30 May 2023.