Role Footballer Number 3 Height 1.62 m | –2007 Sunderland Date joined 2015 Name Demi Stokes | |
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Full name Demi Lee Courtney Stokes Date of birth (1991-12-12) 12 December 1991 (age 24) Current teams Manchester City W.F.C. (#3 / Defender), England women's national football team (Defender) | ||
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Demi stokes football story how i started
Demi Lee Courtney Stokes (born 12 December 1991) is an English footballer who plays for Manchester City. She previously played for Sunderland in the English FA Women's Premier League. Stokes made her debut for the senior England women's national football team in January 2014.
Contents
- Demi stokes football story how i started
- WHATS IN A NAME Demi Stokes
- Club career
- England
- International goals
- Great Britain
- References
WHAT'S IN A NAME | Demi Stokes
Club career
Stokes joined Sunderland's youth academy as an 8-year-old and began playing in the first team at 16. She was part of the team which won the 2008–09 FA Women's Premier League Northern Division and lost the 2009 FA Women's Cup final 2–1 to Arsenal. She accepted a four-year scholarship to University of South Florida in 2011.
In 2012 Stokes played 13 games for Vancouver Whitecaps in the pro–am North American W-League.
In January 2015 Stokes signed a three-year professional contract with Manchester City.
England
In July 2009 Stokes featured as England under-19 won the 2009 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship in Belarus, with a 2–0 final win over Sweden. In 2010, she helped England reach the final of the 2010 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship in Macedonia, where they lost their title to France. Later that summer Stokes started two of England's three games at the 2010 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup in Germany.
Newly-appointed England coach Mark Sampson included Stokes in a 30-player squad for the annual training camp in La Manga, which included a match against Norway on 17 January 2014. She started the 1–1 draw with Norway at left back, to win her first senior cap. In April 2014 she scored in England's 9–0 thrashing of Montenegro at Falmer Stadium, Brighton and Hove.
Stokes was disappointed to be left out of England's squad for the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup. She was restored to the squad for the subsequent UEFA Women's Euro 2017 qualifying campaign.
International goals
Scores and results list England's goal tally first.Great Britain
In July 2013 Stokes captained Great Britain to a gold medal in the 2013 Summer Universiade in Kazan, Russia.