Alexandra Takounda Engolo (born 7 July 2000), known as Alexandra Takounda, is a Cameroonian

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...

forward Forward is a relative direction, the opposite of backward. Forward may also refer to: People * Forward (surname) Sports * Forward (association football) * Forward (basketball), including: ** Point forward ** Power forward (basketball) ** Sm ...

who have played for

Djurgården Djurgården ( or ) or, more officially, ''Kungliga Djurgården'' (), is an island in central Stockholm, Sweden. Djurgården is home to historical buildings and monuments, museums, galleries, the amusement park Gröna Lund, the open-air museum ...

and the Cameroon women's national team. Takounda joined

Djurgårdens IF Djurgårdens Idrottsförening, commonly known simply as Djurgårdens IF, Djurgården (), and (especially locally) Djurgår'n (), Dif or DIF – is a Swedish sports association with several sections, located in Stockholm. Name The club is named ...

for the 2021 season. She left after one season.

International career

Takounda represented Cameroon at the

2016 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup The 2016 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup was the fifth edition of the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup, the biennial international women's youth football championship contested by the under-17 national teams of the member associations of FIFA. The tournam ...

and FIFA World Cup France 2019 where she played her first game in a 2:0 win over New Zealand.

References

2000 births Living people Cameroonian women's footballers Cameroon women's international footballers 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup players Women's association football forwards 21st-century Cameroonian women Djurgårdens IF Fotboll (women) players Beylerbeyi S.K. (women's football) players Expatriate sportspeople in Germany {{Cameroon-women-footy-bio-stub