Fara Williams

Fara Tanya Franki Williams Merrett ( born January 25, 1984 in London) is an English footballer. The midfielder is at Everton LFC under contract and playing for the English national team as well as Team GB at the Olympic Games in 2012.

Williams began her career at the age of seven years at Chelsea LFC and moved in 2001 to the Charlton Athletic Ladies. Since 2004 she plays for Everton. With Everton she was runner-up four times English and won the 2008 League Cup. In 2010 she won with Everton FA Women 's Cup.

On November 24, 2001, she made ​​her debut in the England national team in an international match in Portugal. With the England team took part in the 2005 European Championships, the 2007 World Championships and the 2009 European Championships. For the 2011 World Cup is also nominated. Overall, they played 95 times for the English selection, scoring 35 goals. The 35th goal she scored in the first World Cup game against Mexico. In the group match against New Zealand and in the quarter-final against France, they were further operations, but was eliminated by France in a penalty shootout.

On 1 March 2012, she made ​​the game as part of the Cyprus Cup against Switzerland her 100th international game, where she managed the 1-0 winning goal in the 75th minute.

In 2012 she was in Team GB, which participated in the Olympic Games in London. She came in all four games for use, but different in the quarterfinals against Canada from.

2013 she won the Cyprus Cup with England and was in the squad for the European Championship 2013., Where they came in all three group games used different with their team but already after the first round of.

In the final of the Cyprus Cup in 2014 she made her 125th international game and has thus denied with Peter Shilton, the record holder of men, the second- most games for England. It is equipped with 36 gates, the fourth-best scorer of the women's national team and scored the most goals of all midfielders.

Achievements

  • League Cup winner 2008
  • FA Women's Cup winner 2010
  • Vice European Champion 2009
FA Women's Premier League Cup
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