Sarah Abu-Sabbah

Sarah Basem Najem Abu-Sabbah (born 27 October 1999) is a German-born Jordanian footballer who plays for Borussia Mönchengladbach. She has also played for the Jordan under-17 team that played in the 2016 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup and the senior national team of Jordan.

Early life

Abu-Sabbah was born on October 27, 1999 in Düsseldorf, Germany. Her father migrated to Germany in 1994. She started playing football at age 4 with her mother registering her at a boy's football club.

Youth career

Abu-Sabbah played for the youth teams of SGS Essen and Bayer Leverkusen at the U17 Bundesliga South/SouthWest division in the 2014–15 and 2015-16 season respectively.

Club career

On March 20, 2016 she made her first appearance for the senior team of Bayer Leverkusen at the Frauen-Bundesliga, becoming the first female Jordanian to play in a league outside Jordan and the first Arab to play in the German women's league. She only played in one match. In 2017, she is playing for Bayer Leverkusen II of third-tier league Regionalliga West.

International career

Abu-Sabbah first joined the Jordan U-17 team in 2015. At the 2016 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup which was hosted in Jordan, Abu-Sabbah debuted for the under-17 team of Jordan in the match against Spain. She later scored the first ever goal of the Jordan U-17 team in the tournament in their 1-4 loss to Mexico.

She debuted for the senior team in September 2017 in the 2-1 friendly win against Latvia in Riga. She was among the players that represented Jordan at the 2018 AFC Women's Asian Cup.