Sarah Basem Najem Abu-Sabbah (born 27 October 1999) is a German-born Jordanian footballer who plays for

SV Meppen SV Meppen is a German association football club playing in Meppen, Lower Saxony. The club was founded on 29 November 1912 as ''Amisia Meppen'' and joined ''Männer-Turnverein Meppen'' on 8 February 1920 to form ''TuS Meppen 1912''. The football ...

in Germany's

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. She has also played for the Jordan under-17 team that played in the 2016 FIFA U-17 World Cup and the senior national team of Jordan.

Early life

Abu-Sabbah was born on October 27, 1999 in

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, Germany. Her father migrated to Germany in 1994. She started playing football at age 4 with her mother registering her at a boys' football club.

Youth career

Abu-Sabbah played for the youth teams of SGS Essen and Bayer Leverkusen at the U17 Bundesliga South/SouthWest division in the 2014–15 and 2015-16 season respectively.

Club career

On March 20, 2016 she made her first appearance for the senior team of Bayer Leverkusen at the

, becoming the first female Jordanian to play in a league outside Jordan and the first Arab to play in the German women's league. She only played in one match. In 2017, she is playing for Bayer Leverkusen II of third-tier league Regionalliga West.

International career

Abu-Sabbah first joined the Jordan U-17 team in 2015. At the 2016 FIFA U-17 World Cup which was hosted in Jordan, she debuted for the under-17 team of Jordan in the match against

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. She later scored the first goal of the Jordan U-17 team in the tournament in their 1-4 loss to

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. She debuted for the senior team in September 2017 in the 2-1 friendly win against

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. She was among the players that represented Jordan at the

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International goals

:''Scores and results list Jordan's goal tally first.''

References

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* 1999 births Living people Women's association football midfielders Jordanian women's footballers Jordan women's international footballers German women's footballers Footballers from Düsseldorf German people of Jordanian descent Bayer 04 Leverkusen (women) players SGS Essen players {{Germany-women-footy-bio-stub Association football midfielders