Ellen White has 50 goals for England and will doubtless add more at the Euros. What a player and what a thoroughly nice woman.
Who’s this then?
Ellen Toni White is a 5’7″ (though looks much taller, somehow, especially in an England shirt) young-looking 33-year-old striker for Manchester City and England. She stands on the verge of being England’s greatest goalscorer of all time having netted 50 goals for England heading into this summer’s Euros, which kick off on Wednesday.
An Arsenal fan from a family of Arsenal supporters, she was spotted as a youngster by Arsenal’s youth academy and played for them from aged eight until she was 16 when she moved to Chelsea in 2005. It is a sign of how little the women’s game was studied in 2005 that there are few statistics available about players beyond the basics until 2011 and no comprehensive statistical analysis until 2018, just four years ago.
21 goals in 48 games for the Blues took her to Leeds Carnegie for two seasons. She did her cruciate at Leeds and was out for a few months but won the Women’s Premier League Cup in 2010. However, Leeds fell apart due to lack of money and she returned to Arsenal for three successful seasons. She scored 34 times in 62 games, won the WSL in 2011 and 2012, the FA Women’s Cup (2011, 2013) and FA WSL Cup (2011, 2012 and 2013).
In 2013 she left for Notts County on a three-year contract but knacked her ACL and was out of the whole season. Despite scoring 11 in 33 games, it wasn’t a successful period in her career and she moved to Birmingham City, where she scored 23 times in 28 games; 15 in 14 games in 2017/18 was her best season to date.
2019 saw her move to Manchester City where she remains, having scored 34 in 86 games and winning the Women’s FA Cup and the FA WSL Cup.
Internationally, she’s been playing for England since 2010 and has now scored 50 times in 105 games, winning the Cyprus Cup in 2013, the SheBelieves Cup in 2019 and the Arnold Clark Cup in 2022.
Despite having played for six clubs, there appears to be no record of a transfer fee ever being paid for her, despite being one of the best strikers in world football. She signs a contract and sees it out, like a normal person, in a normal business and without drama. And isn’t that refreshing?
Why the love?
Obviously, with 196 goals in 404 games so far in her career, she is a guarantee of goals and her fans obviously love that. She has great positional sense, getting ahead of defenders for…
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