Jayde Yuk Fun Riviere (born January 22, 2001) is a Canadian

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player who plays as a defender for

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of the English

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and the Canada women's national team. Riviere played

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at the

University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

before signing her first professional contract with

in 2023. She represented

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at multiple youth levels before earning her first senior cap in 2017. In 2021, she won a

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at the

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Early life

Born in

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, Riviere was first taught to play soccer by her father when she was three. She started playing club soccer for West Rouge SC at the age of four, later representing Pickering SC before moving to Markham SC aged 13. She attended Bill Crothers Secondary School where she also played volleyball, flag football and track and field, and was named Female Athlete of the Year after scoring 50 goals in just 20 league games in her only year of high school soccer before joining the

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program. In August 2017, Riviere moved cross country to

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, to join the residency program at the Vancouver Whitecaps Super REX Academy.

College career

Riviere verbally committed to playing

for the

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at the

in 2014. In total, she received 28 full scholarship offers before she enrolled at the Michigan School of

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in the fall of 2019. She also rejected offers to play professionally in order to attend Michigan. She made her collegiate debut starting in the season opener on August 22, 2019, a 5–0 win over

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. She scored her first and only collegiate goal on November 8, 2019, scoring the overtime winner in a 2–1 victory against the

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in the 2019 Big Ten women's soccer tournament semi-final. In her freshman season, she was named to the Big Ten All-Freshman Team. In 2021, she made a career-high 22 appearances on the season and helped lead Michigan to the

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title, the third in team history and first since 1999, as well as a program-tying best NCAA quarter-finals appearance. She made one appearance in the 2022 season, on August 28 against

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, before announcing she would be ending her Michigan career early due to a lower body injury. In total she made 47 appearances for Michigan, registering one goal and three assists.

Club career

In April 2022, Riviere signed with

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of the amateur

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ahead of the inaugural 2022 USL W League season. She made four appearances during the season. Despite being touted as a first round pick, Riviere did not declare for the

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amid rumoured interest from European clubs. On January 21, 2023, she signed her first professional contract with English

team

on a two-and-a-half year deal.

International career

Youth

In September 2015, Riviere saw her first involvement with the Canadian youth program as a 14-year-old when

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called her up an EXCEL camp with the under-17 team. In March 2016, she was named to her first tournament squad, making four appearances at the 2016 CONCACAF Women's U-17 Championship. Later that year she was part of the roster that finished as runners-up at the 2016 CONCACAF Girls' U-15 Championship, playing in all seven matches and scoring four goals before ending the year with a third tourament appearance, this time at the

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, playing in two matches. Having made her senior international debut in 2017, Riviere continued to feature at youth level, representing Canada at three major youth tournaments in 2018; she started the year playing in every match at the

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, finished third at the 2018 CONCACAF Women's U-17 Championship, and ended the year with a run to the 2018 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup semi-final.

Senior

In November 2017, Riviere was called up to the

senior team for the first time for a two-game friendly series against the

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. On November 12, 2017, she made her senior international debut in the second of the two games, entering as a 71st-minute substitute for

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in a 3–1 defeat to the United States. She started her first match for the senior team on April 8, 2019, and assisted both goals in a 2–1 friendly win against

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. In May 2019, she was named to the roster for the

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in France. Having been an unused substitute for the opening game, she started the next group game, a 2–0 over

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. She made a further two appearances, both as a substitute as Canada was eliminated by

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in the quarter-finals. She scored her first goal for the senior team on January 29, 2020, the sixth goal in a 11–0 win over

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during the 2020 CONCACAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Championship. In 2021, Riviere represented Canada at the

. An unused substitute for the opening game, Riverie replaced

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as starter in the remaining group stage matches, beating

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and drawing with

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. Having picked up a yellow card against Brazil in the quarter-final, Riviere was suspended on yellow card accumulation for the semi-final against the

but returned for the

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, substituting on during overtime as Canada won gold in a penalty shootout victory over

Personal life

Riviere's father was born in

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, and her mother was born in

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. In 2021, Riviere was honoured in her hometown of

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when Mayor

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declared August 6 to be "Jayde Riviere Day" in Markham after Canada's gold medal victory at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

Career statistics

Club

International

:''Scores and results list Canada's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Riviere goal.''

Honours

Michigan Wolverines *

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women's soccer tournament:

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Canada * CONCACAF Girls' U-15 Championship runner-up:

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gold medal:

Individual * Big Ten Conference All-Freshman Team: 2017

References

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Riviere, Jayde 2001 births Living people Canadian women's soccer players Women's association football forwards Canada women's international soccer players Sportspeople from Markham, Ontario Canadian people of Dominica descent Canadian sportspeople of Hong Kong descent Soccer people from Ontario 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup players Michigan Wolverines women's soccer players Black Canadian women's soccer players Footballers at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic soccer players of Canada Olympic medalists in football Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for Canada Pickering FC (women) players AFC Ann Arbor players Manchester United W.F.C. players Expatriate women's footballers in England Canadian expatriate sportspeople in England Canadian expatriate women's soccer players Expatriate women's soccer players in the United States Canadian expatriate sportspeople in the United States