Aurora Galli (born 13 December 1996) is an Italian professional

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who plays as a

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for Everton and the

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Career

She played for Italy at

UEFA Women's Euro 2017 The 2017 UEFA European Women's Championship, commonly referred to as UEFA Women's Euro 2017, was the 12th edition of the UEFA Women's Championship, the quadrennial international football championship organised by UEFA for the women's national team ...

. On 28 July 2021, Galli signed for Everton, in doing so she became the first Italian player to sign for a

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club, as well as the first ever Italian female footballer to play professional football following the transition to professionalism of the FA Women's Super League in 2018. On 2 March 2022, Galli scored her first

goal for Everton against

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International goals

Honours

Torres *

Italian Women's Super Cup The Supercoppa Italiana (; English: Italian Women's Super Cup), also called Supercoppa Italiana Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane for national sponsorship with Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane, is a national women's football cup competition in Italy pla ...

: 2013 Juventus *

Serie A The Serie A (), also called Serie A TIM for national sponsorship with TIM, is a professional league competition for football clubs located at the top of the Italian football league system and the winner is awarded the Scudetto and the Coppa ...

: 2017–18, 2018–19, 2019–20,

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Coppa Italia The ("Italy Cup") is an annual knockout cup competition in Italian football organized by the FIGC until the 2009–10 season and the Lega Serie A ever since. History The beginning of the tournament was turbulent, due to the complexity of ...

: 2018–19 *

Supercoppa Italiana The Supercoppa Italiana ( en, Italian Super Cup) is an annual football match contested by the winners of the Serie A and the Coppa Italia in the previous season. If the same team wins both the Serie A and Coppa Italia titles in the previous seaso ...

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Individual * AIC Best Women's XI: 2019 * Everton Spirit of the blues award: 2022

Private life

Galli lives together with Swedish footballer

Nathalie Björn Gun Nathalie Björn (born 4 May 1997) is a Swedish professional footballer who plays as a defender for Everton and the Swedish women's national team. Career statistics :''Scores and results list Sweden's goal tally first, score column indic ...

in a same-sex relationship.L-Mag.de: Das sind die 59 lesbischen Stars der Fussball-EM 2022 (German)
July 2022

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* * 1996 births Living people Italian women's footballers Italy women's international footballers Sportspeople from the Province of Pavia Torres Calcio Femminile players A.S.D. AGSM Verona F.C. players Juventus F.C. (women) players Serie A (women's football) players Women's association football midfielders Atalanta Mozzanica Calcio Femminile Dilettantistico players 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup players ASD Femminile Inter Milano players Everton F.C. (women) players Expatriate women's footballers in England Italian expatriate sportspeople in England Footballers from Lombardy UEFA Women's Euro 2022 players Italian LGBT sportspeople Italian lesbians LGBT association football players Lesbian sportswomen 21st-century Italian LGBT people UEFA Women's Euro 2017 players Italian expatriate women's footballers {{Italy-women-footy-bio-stub