Lucienne Anna Reichardt (born 1 May 1991) is a Dutch former

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er who played as a

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for West Ham United of the

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in England.

Club career

Reichardt brought a successful six-year spell with

ADO Den Haag Alles Door Oefening Den Haag (), commonly known by the abbreviated name ADO Den Haag (), is a Dutch association football club from the city of The Hague. They play in the Eerste Divisie, the second tier of Dutch football, following relegation f ...

to an end in summer 2014, because she wanted to complete her

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studies and she had a persistent

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injury. Two years later she found a doctor who performed surgery allowing her to return to top level football. Instead of rejoining ADO Den Haag, she signed for her girlhood club

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. In July 2018, Reichardt transferred to West Ham United from Ajax. She was part of the squad that reached the final of the 2018–19 FA Women's Cup, where she was an unused substitute. On 7 May 2019, she announced her decision to retire from football at the end of the FA WSL season, aged 28, in order to pursue a career as a psychologist. In her final professional match Reichardt stood in as West Ham's

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, but the team were beaten 4–0 by

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Honours

Club

ADO Den Haag *

Eredivisie The Eredivisie (; ''"Honour Division"'' or ''"Premier Division"'') is the highest level of professional football in the Netherlands. The league was founded in 1956, two years after the start of professional football in the Netherlands. It is c ...

winner: 2011–12 *

KNVB Women's Cup The KNVB Women's Cup ( nl, KNVB Beker voor Vrouwen) is the cup competition for women's football in the Netherlands. The competition was established in 1980, along with the KNVB Amateur Cup. From the 2007-08 season onwards, the first round of th ...

winner: 2011–12, 2012–13 AFC Ajax *

winner: 2016–17, 2017–18 *

winner: 2016–17, 2017–18 West Ham United *

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runner-up: 2018–19

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at OnsOranje.nl 1991 births Living people Dutch women's footballers West Ham United F.C. Women players Women's association football midfielders Expatriate women's footballers in England Eredivisie (women) players People from Drechterland Footballers from North Holland AFC Ajax (women) players ADO Den Haag (women) players BeNe League players Dutch expatriate sportspeople in England Women's Super League players Dutch expatriate women's footballers {{Netherlands-women-footy-bio-stub