Liis Emajõe (born 21 August 1991) is a retired

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player and currently a women's soccer coach for the

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. She played as a striker for

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in the

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, as well as the Estonian national team. In 2010, she was named Estonian Female Young Footballer of the Year. She scored Estonia's first goal in the 2013 Euro's qualification in a 2–1 loss against

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. Her younger sister

Riin Emajõe Riin Emajõe (born 29 March 1993) is an Estonian football player who plays as a defender. She has made a total of 23 appearances for the Estonia women's national football team The Estonia women's national football team ( et, Eesti naiste jalg ...

is also a football player.

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* * 1991 births Living people Estonian women's footballers Estonia women's international footballers Maine Black Bears women's soccer players People from Põltsamaa Women's association football forwards Estonian expatriate women's footballers Expatriate women's soccer players in the United States Estonian expatriate sportspeople in the United States FC Flora (women) players {{Estonia-women-footy-bio-stub