Lily Yohannes

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Lily Yohannes
Personal information
Full name Lilian Isabella Yohannes [1]
Date of birth (2007-06-12) June 12, 2007 (age 16) [2]
Place of birth Springfield, Virginia, U.S.
Height 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) [3]
Position(s) Midfielder
Team information
Current team
 Ajax
Number 20
Youth career
2023 Ajax
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2023– Ajax 16 (4)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of March 26, 2024

Lilian Isabella Yohannes (born June 12, 2007) is an American professional soccer player with Dutch club Ajax in the Vrouwen Eredivisie. Yohannes was born in the United States, before her family moved to the Netherlands at age 10. [4]

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Early life

Yohannes was born in Springfield, Virginia to an Eritrean-American mother and an Ethiopian born Eritrean-American father. She moved to the Netherlands when she was ten years old after her father accepted a job position in Amsterdam. Yohannes played youth soccer in the Netherlands and began training weekly with Ajax when she was 13 years old. [5]

Club career

Yohannes signed a professional three-year contract offer through June 2026 with AFC Ajax at 15-years-old. [5] She became the youngest player to ever to start a UEFA Women's Champions League group stage match at 16-years-old, and the youngest American to play in the Champions League on November 15, 2023. [6] Ajax went on to win 2–0 over Paris Saint-Germain FC with goals from Tiny Hoekstra at the 34th minute and Sherida Spitse at the first minute of injury time during the first half. [7]

International career

Yohannes plans to attain Dutch citizenship and will then be eligible to play for the Netherlands. While she isn't yet a citizen, she attended a youth U-19 camp with the Netherlands in December 2023. [6]

Yohannes is eligible to play for the United States and she has attended two youth national team camps, one U-15 [8] and one U-16. [9] At the age of 16, Yohannes received her first United States senior team call-up in March 2024 ahead of the 2024 SheBelieves Cup. She became the youngest player to be called in to a senior camp since 16-year-old Sophia Smith was called up in April 2017. [10]

Yohannes stated in May 2024 she remains undecided on her international future. [11]

Personal life

She is of Eritrean descent. [12] Her maternal grandfather, Bokretsion Gebrehiwot, was a member of Eritrea's national soccer team. Her older brother, Aethan, has appeared with the United States' U-15 and U-17 national teams and currently plays college soccer at Wake Forest.

Honors

United States

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  2. ↑ "Lily Yohannes" (in Dutch). AFC Ajax . Retrieved March 26, 2024.
  3. ↑ "Lily Yohannes". United States Soccer Federation. Archived from the original on March 26, 2024. Retrieved March 26, 2024.
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  5. 1 2 "Lily Yohannes, a 16-year-old American, is playing in the Champions League. Is U.S. Soccer watching?". Yahoo Sports. November 22, 2023. Retrieved December 14, 2023.
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