Eve Martha Badana was born on 9 July 1993 and is a footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Irish Women's National League club DLR Waves.
12 Facts About Eve Badana
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Eve Badana previously played for Cork City while attending University College Cork.
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Eve Badana won her first cap for Ireland in February 2012.
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Eve Badana was captain of her local team Unionville Milliken SC, then joined Toronto Lady Lynx where she was named captain and helped the Under-20 team qualify for the 2010 Super Y-League finals.
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On 27 September 2016 Eve Badana signed for Cork City, after she decided to relocate to Ireland and finish her legal studies at University College Cork.
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Eve Badana then accepted a job with a legal firm in Dublin and signed for DLR Waves during the 2019 Women's National League season.
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Eve Badana came to the attention of Canada women's national soccer team selectors who drafted her into the national Under-17 squad.
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Eve Badana was then part of the Canadian selection at the 2010 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup.
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Eligible due to her County Tyrone-born mother, Eve Badana approached the Football Association of Ireland about switching her international affiliation, rather than the Irish Football Association, whose national team usually represents footballers with ancestry or parentage from Northern Ireland and entitled to Irish citizenship.
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Eve Badana remained an understudy, usually to the recognised first-choice goalkeeper Emma Byrne.
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Eve Badana returned to the squad in June 2021 for two friendlies against Iceland, but still had only three caps following her debut almost a decade earlier.
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Eve Badana represented Ireland at the 2013,2015 and 2017 editions of the Summer Universiade.