Marie-Yasmine Alidou

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Marie-Yasmine Alidou
Personal information
Full name Marie-Yasmine Alidou d'Anjou
Date of birth (1995-04-28) April 28, 1995 (age 29)
Place of birth Montréal, Quebec, Canada
Height 5 ft 3 in (1.60 m)
Position(s) Midfielder
Team information
Current team
 Benfica
Number 2
Youth career
CS St-Hubert
FC St-Leonard
CS Union Lanaudiere Sud
AS Varennes-St. Amable
College career
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2013–2017 UQAM Citadins
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2017–2018 Marseille 16 (3)
2018 Linköpings FC 5 (0)
2019–2020 Sporting Huelva 19 (1)
2020–2021 Klepp 20 (5)
2022 Sturm Graz 8 (4)
2022–2023 Famalicão 20 (8)
2023– Benfica 18 (6)
International career‡
2017 Canada Universiade 5 (0)
2022– Canada 2 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of May 11, 2024
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of February 22, 2024

Marie-Yasmine Alidou d'Anjou (born April 28, 1995) is a Canadian professional soccer player who plays as a midfielder for Campeonato Nacional Feminino club Benfica and the Canada women's national team.

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Early life

Alidou was born in Montreal, Quebec and raised in Saint-Hubert, Quebec to a Beninese father and a French Canadian mother. [1] She played the majority of her youth soccer with CS St-Hubert and also had stints with FC St-Leonard, Lanaudiere Sud and Varennes-St. Amable. [2]

College career

Alidou has attended the Université du Québec à Montréal. In 2016, she was named RSEQ Player of the Week for Week 2, [3] UQAM Athlete of the Year, [4] an RSEQ First Team All-Star, [5] and a U Sports Second Team All-Star. [6]

Club career

In 2017, Alidou joined French club Olympique de Marseille. [7] [8]

Afterwards, she played for Swedish club Linköpings FC in 2018. [9] A year later, she joined Sporting de Huelva in Spain. [10] [11] Afterwards, she played for Klepp IL in Norway in 2020–21 [12] and Sturm Graz in 2022. [13]

In 2022, she signed with Famalicão in Portugal in 2022. [14] She was named the league's player of the month in February and March, and helped the club with their first Taça de Portugal. [15] [16]

In the summer of 2023, she signed with Benfica. [17] [18] On October 11, 2023, she scored a brace in a Champions League match against Cypriot club Apollon. [19]

International career

She represented Canada at the 2017 FISU Universiade Games. [20] [21]

In February 2022, she was called up to the Canada senior team for the first time. [22] Alidou made her senior debut for Canada on February 23, 2022 against Spain at the 2022 Arnold Clark Cup. [23]

Career statistics

Club

As of match played May 19, 2024
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
ClubSeasonLeagueDomestic Cup [lower-alpha 1] League CupContinentalOtherTotal
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Marseille 2017–18 D1 Féminine 163————163
Linköping 2018 Damallsvenskan 40————40
Huelva 2019–20 Liga F 19110———201
Klepp 2020 Toppserien 131————131
2021 Toppserien74————74
Total20500000000205
Sturm Graz 2021–22 ÖFB Frauen Bundesliga 84————84
Famalicão 2022–23 Campeonato Nacional Feminino 2086242—203212
Total208624200203212
Benfica 2023–24 Campeonato Nacional Feminino1866555119214226
Career total10527137971194114251

International

As of match played February 23, 2022
Appearances and goals by national team and year
National teamYearAppsGoals
Canada 202210
202300
202410
Total20

Honours

Famalicão

Benfica

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  2. ↑ Lidbetter, Mark (February 23, 2022). "Local players advancing their soccer dreams". The Suburban.
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