Evelyne Viens (born February 6, 1997) is a Canadian professional

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player who plays as a forward for

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club

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and the Canada national team. She played

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at the

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Early life

Viens began playing soccer at age five with AS Mistral Laurentien. At age 14, she received an invitation to join the Quebec provincial team, but declined the opportunity. She joined CS Haute-Saint-Charles, when she was 14.

College career

Viens played for the USF Bulls women's soccer team from 2016 to 2019, where she became the team's all-time top scorer with 73 goals and was named to the NCAA All-American team three times. She also holds the school record for the most single season goals and has the most career goals in

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history. She scored her first collegiate goal on August 25, 2016, against

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Club career

In 2018 and 2019, she played for Dynamo de Quebec in the

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(later renamed NY/NJ Gotham FC) selected Viens with the fifth-overall pick in the

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. She made her Sky Blue FC debut on June 30, 2020 in the 2020 NWSL Challenge Cup. Viens scored her first goal for the club on July 22, 2020, in a 3–2 defeat to the

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during the semi-finals of the 2020 NWSL Challenge Cup. In August 2020, Sky Blue loaned Viens to

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. Viens returned to the club in March 2021. In December 2021, Gotham FC loaned Viens to

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club

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for the 2022 season. In August 2022, she announced that she would not return to the United States. On September 10, she scored four goals in a league match and a

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on September 24. On September 30, Kristianstad signed her to a two-year contract. In August 2023, Viens joined

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in the Italian

, on a three-year contract.

International career

She was named to the Canada national team for the first time for the 2021 SheBelieves Cup. She made her debut against the

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on February 18. She scored her first goal for Canada on April 9, 2021 in a 3-0 win against

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. Four days later, she was in the starting eleven for the first time in the 2-0 win against the England national team and scored the first goal in the third minute. On June 23, 2021, she was named to the roster for the

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, which were postponed until the summer of 2021 because of the

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. She played in the two games in Group E against the national teams of

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and

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. Canada won gold in the games, and Viens became the first USF alum to win an Olympic medal as an athlete. On July 9, 2023, she was nominated for the 2023 World Cup. She played in each of her team's three games, being substituted twice, and was eliminated with her team in the preliminary round. Viens was called up to the Canada squad for the

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, which Canada finished as semifinalists. Viens was called up to the Canada squad for the

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Career statistics

Club

International goals

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

Honours

South Florida Bulls * American Athletic Conference Champion: 2017–19 Dynamo de Quebec * PLSQ Championship:

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Roma *

: 2023–24 *

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: 2023–24 *

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Canada *

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2021 Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...

Individual * Serie A Striker of the Season: 2023–24 * Serie A Golden Boot: 2023–24 * PLSQ Golden Boot:

* Second Team All-American: 2019 * Third Team All-American: 2017–18 * Conference Offensive Player of the Year: 2018–19 * First Team All-Conference: 2017–19

References

External links

South Florida profile
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