Sarah Bouhaddi Bio, Career, Salary- 5 Amazing Facts

The French women’s football league cannot be complete without a mention of the name Sarah Bouhaddi who is an unmatched football player and goalkeeper currently playing for the Olympique Lyon club and the France women’s national football team where she plays together with stars like Wendie Renard and Emelyne Laurent.

She has represented her home country of France at various levels and tournaments and for different teams since she began professional football in 2003.

Sarah Bouhaddi Early Life, Biography

Sarah Bouhaddi was born in a town called Cannes in France, on the 17th of October 1986. From a tender age, Sarah had always fancied the game of football and she saw the need to take up her passion and get involved in the game fully.

Though information on her childhood, parents, or siblings is far-fetched, it is believed that she attended High School in her hometown of Cannes.

Also, it was at her youthful age that she learned the basics of the game as she engaged herself with the SC Mouans-Sartoux youth team in 1994. She also relentlessly played for the youth squads of Mougins, Monaco, and Clairefontaine.

Sarah Bouhaddi Professional Football Career

It is no news that Sarah Bouhaddi is a well-groomed goalkeeper who has distinguished herself in her career over time.

From the outset, Sarah started off playing for the women U-19 team of France at the age of 17 quite young to feature in international competition, but she is someone who is very determined if she sets out to do something.

Therefore, her determination saw through playing in the 2003 UEFA Women’s Under-19 Championship in Germany. She kept two clean sheets which helped the French team to win the tournament.

In 2005, she was named among the team that battled in the competition. However, the French team ran out of luck and was eliminated during the finals following a penalty shootout where they suffered a 5-6 defeat in the hands of Russia.

Sarah Bouhaddi advanced into playing for the U-20 French women’s team and she featured during the FIFA U-20 Women’s World Championship which took place in 2006.

She again ensured that her nets were always tight and she helped the French team to manage themselves into the quarter-finals of the tournament which ended up being their final destination.

As of February 21, 2004, Sarah had advanced to the Senior Women’s team making her first appearance in the friendly against Scotland where she appeared as a substitute goalkeeper.

The women’s team coach then, Elisabeth Loisel was pleased with her performance she decided to include her in the roaster of the UEFA Women’s Euro 2005, tournament, and in the wake of the season the French team suffered a nip at the bud kind of elimination as early as in the group stage.

Sarah Bouhaddi allowed 5 goals into her net as the leading goalkeeper, the penultimate to the not-too-good campaign. She still made it into the team to play in the 2007 FIFA Women’s World Cup qualifiers matches. Unfortunately, France could not find its way into the 2007 World cup.

In 2009, she was invited to the UEFA Women’s Euro 2009, tournament where France made some headway reaching up to the quarterfinals in the completion until they were foisted out by the Netherlands in a 4–5 defeat as a consequence of a penalty shootout.

Sarah suffered an ACL injury, which got her out of the pitch for the better part of the qualifying matches for the  2011 FIFA Women’s World Cup. Upon her recovery, she joined the 2012 Summer Olympics team featuring in all of France’s matches with the team finishing in the fourth position.

With her club Lyon, Sarah was instrumental in prompting the winning of 6 trophies simultaneously spanning from 2011 to the 2016/17 seasons. Under the UEFA Women’s Champions League, Lyon clung on to 5 successive trophies in 2010/2011 straight up to the 2017/2018.

She has also protected the nets of her home country France is several international competition, in which they were able to claim some of the titles such as the Cyprus Cup in 2012 and 2014, along with the SheBelieves Cup they won in 2017.

She also became the IFFHS World’s Best Woman Goalkeeper trice back to back from 2016 to 2018 adding up to being named into the IFFHS Women’s World Team that came in 2017 and 2018.

Personal Life, Single Dating, Boyfriend

Based on records available, it is believed that Sarah Bouhaddi is still a lovely single woman. This is only an assumption held by many as the French footballer has vehemently decided not to make public issues concerning her personal.

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Height, Weight Body Measurement

This energetic footballer stands tall at a height of 5 ft. 9 inches or 175 cm. Guided by her looks, she has maintained a good body weight ratio as a fit and active goalkeeper.

Sarah Bouhaddi also has black eye color as well as dark hair color, she is indeed one of the prettiest female French footballers.

Net Worth, Salary

Sarah Bouhaddi is among the most paid goalkeeper in French women’s football. She has earned quite a fortune for herself from her football career. It is on this premise that her net worth is said to be around over $1 million.

5 Amazing Facts About Sarah Bouhaddi

1. She has more than 100 caps for France making her only one among the over 300 female players to achieve the feat for their countries.

2. The goalkeeper represented France at the 2019 FIFA World Cup in France where she made a 0.765 save percentage.

3. She is one of the best goalkeepers in female football winning three straight World Goalkeeper of the Year Awards. She remained the first choice for Lyon for over 10 seasons now.

4. Sarah got a nomination for the 2019 Ballon d’Or. On the list were also great players like Sam Kerr, Lucy Bronze, Ellen White, and Amandine Henry among others. There is also the favorite person to win the award, Megan Rapinoe.

5. In 2017, her penalty goal was what gave Lyon its fourth Champions League trophy after beating P.S.G following a shootout.