Chinyelu Asher

Chinyelu Bessum Asher (born 20 May 1993) is an American-born Jamaican professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for AIK, as well as the Jamaica women's national team.

Chinyelu Asher
Personal information
Full name Chinyelu Bessum Asher[1]
Date of birth (1993-05-20) 20 May 1993
Place of birth Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
Height 1.67 m (5 ft 6 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Team information
Current team
 AIK
Number 7
College career
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2011–2013 Purdue Boilermakers 58 (9)
2014 Louisville Cardinals
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2016 BIIK-Kazygurt 7 (0)
2017 Santa Fe 7 (0)
2018 Washington Spirit Reserves 4 (0)
2019 Stabæk 14 (0)
2021 Washington Spirit 2 (0)
2022– AIK 19 (2)
International career‡
2012 Jamaica U-20 4 (5)
2015– Jamaica 29 (6)
Medal record
Representing  Jamaica
CONCACAF W Championship
Third place2018 United States
Third place2022 Mexico
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 23:10, 11 September 2022 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 10 June 2021 (UTC)

Early life

Chinyelu Asher started playing football at age 9, was taught how to play by her father, Kevin Asher, who is Jamaican. Asher ran track and cross country throughout high school, making repeated appearances to Nationals and Junior Olympics. Simultaneously, Asher played with Freestate United and would play in her school's boys' team during trainings.

College career

Between 2011 and 2013, Asher played for the Purdue Boilermakers.[2] She later transferred to Louisville Cardinals in 2014.[3]

Club career

Asher joined BIIK-Kazygurt in 2016 and played 7 matches of the 2016–17 UEFA Women's Champions League.[4] She later joined Santa Fe,[5] where her team won the 2017 season and post-season tournament and played all games in the 2017 Copa Libertadores Femenina. In 2018, Asher was invited to attend preseason and was a non-roster player for Washington Spirit.[6] Asher joined Stabæk in January 2019.[7]

Asher re-joined Washington Spirit on 8 April 2021.[8]

International career

Although born in the United States, Asher qualified to represent Jamaica through her father, who is Jamaican. Asher made her debut with the Jamaica U-20 in 2012 during the 2012 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship. Asher made her senior debut in the 2016 CONCACAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Championship qualification, on 25 August 2015 versus the Dominican Republic.

Asher was selected for Jamaica's 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup squad. She made her World Cup debut during the team's first group stage match against Brazil in Grenoble.[9]

International goals

Scores and results list Jamaica's goal tally first

No.DateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition
1
25 August 2015Estadio Panamericano, San Cristóbal, Dominican Republic Dominica
7–0
13–0
2016 CONCACAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Championship qualification
2
11 May 2018Stade Sylvio Cator, Port-au-Prince, Haiti Martinique1–0
3–0
2018 CONCACAF Women's Championship qualification
3
23 July 2018Estadio Moderno Julio Torres, Barranquilla, Colombia Colombia
2–1
2018 Central American and Caribbean Games
4
2 September 2018National Stadium, Kingston, Jamaica Cuba6–12018 CONCACAF Women's Championship qualification
5
6–0

Personal life

Asher's mother is of Cameroonian descent and father is of Afro-Jamaican descent, and played soccer collegiately at Howard University. Asher has an older brother named Daniel Asher, who played soccer at Saint Leo University. Asher is the second youngest of five siblings.

References
  1. "Chinyelu Bessum Asher - Profil" (in Norwegian). Norges Fotballforbund.
  2. "Chinyelu Asher - 2013". Purdue. Retrieved 24 October 2018.
  3. "Chinyelu Asher - 2014". Louisville Cardinals. Retrieved 24 October 2018.
  4. "Chinyelu Asher". UEFA. Retrieved 24 October 2018.
  5. "Chinyelu Asher". ceroacero. Retrieved 24 October 2018.
  6. "Four Washington Spirit players named to provisional rosters for Concacaf Women's Championship". Washington Spirit. Retrieved 24 October 2018.
  7. "JAMAICANSK LANDSLAGSSPILLER HAR SIGNERT". Stabæk Fotball. Retrieved 4 January 2019.
  8. Small, Jordan (8 April 2021). "Washington Spirit Sign Chinyelu Asher, Camryn Biegalski and Cali Farquharson". Washington Spirit. Retrieved 11 April 2021.
  9. Miller, Nick (9 June 2019). "Brazil 3–0 Jamaica: Women's World Cup 2019 – as it happened". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 9 June 2019.


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