Jayde Yuk Fun Riviere (born January 22, 2001) is a Canadian soccer defender for the Canadian women's national team, with whom she won a gold medal at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.
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Full name | Jayde Yuk Fun Riviere | |||||||||||||||
Date of birth | (2001-01-22) January 22, 2001 (age 21) | |||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Pickering, Ontario, Canada | |||||||||||||||
Height | 1.63 m (5 ft 4 in) | |||||||||||||||
Position(s) | Defender | |||||||||||||||
Youth career | ||||||||||||||||
2005 | West Rouge SC | |||||||||||||||
2005–2014 | Pickering SC | |||||||||||||||
2014–2017 | Markham SC | |||||||||||||||
2017–2019 | Vancouver Whitecaps REX | |||||||||||||||
College career | ||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||||
2019–2022 | Michigan Wolverines | 47 | (1) | |||||||||||||
Senior career* | ||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||||
2022 | AFC Ann Arbor | 4 | (0) | |||||||||||||
National team‡ | ||||||||||||||||
2016 | Canada U15 | 7 | (4) | |||||||||||||
2016–2018 | Canada U17 | 16 | (2) | |||||||||||||
2018 | Canada U20 | 5 | (0) | |||||||||||||
2017– | Canada | 36 | (1) | |||||||||||||
Honours
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of June 1, 2022 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of July 18, 2022 |
When she was 3, her father began teaching her how to play soccer.[1] Riviere started playing for West Rouge SC at the age of four,[2] and later represented Pickering SC.[3] At age 13, she began playing for Markham SC,[4] In her first year in high school, she was named Female Athlete of the Year after scoring 50 goals in just 20 league games.[5] She then spent some time with the Ontario REX program,[6] before joining the Vancouver Whitecaps FC Girls Elite Super REX program in August 2017.[7]
Riviere committed to play soccer at the University of Michigan as a 14-year old in 2014.[8] She received 28 other college soccer scholarship offers before she enrolled at Michigan in the fall of 2019.[9] as well as some offers to play professionally.[10] She scored her first collegiate goal on November 8, 2019, scoring the overtime winner in a 2-1 victory against the Purdue Boilermakers, which qualified Michigan for the Big Ten Tournament.[11] In her freshman season, she was named to the Big Ten All-Freshman Team.[12] In 2021, she helped lead Michigan to winning the Big Ten Championship and an NCAA Quarterfinals appearance.[13]
In April 2022, she signed with AFC Ann Arbor in the USL W League.[14][15][16] She played four games for Ann Arbor in 2022.[17]
In September 2015, she made her debut in the Canadian youth program, attending a camp with the Canada U17 team.[2] At youth level, she was named to the rosters for the 2016 CONCACAF Girls' U-15 Championship (winning a silver medal), 2016 CONCACAF Women's U-17 Championship, 2016 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup, 2018 CONCACAF Women's U-17 Championship (winning a bronze medal), 2018 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup, and 2018 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship.[2]
In November 2017, she was called up to the Canada senior team for the first time.[18] On November 12, 2017, she made her international debut in a 3–1 defeat to the United States.[19] She started her first match for the senior team on April 8, 2019 in a friendly against Nigeria.[20] She scored her first goal for the senior team on January 29, 2021 against Saint Kitts and Nevis.[21]
On May 25, 2019, she was named to the roster for the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup.[22][23] In 2021, she won a gold medal at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.[24][25][26]
Riviere's father was born in Dominica, while her mother was born in Hong Kong.[2]
Scores and results list Canada's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Riviere goal.
List of international goals scored by Jayde Riviere
No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
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1. | January 29, 2020 | H-E-B Park, Edinburg, United States | ![]() | 6–0 | 11–0 | 2020 CONCACAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Championship |
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