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Sydney Schertenleib

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Sydney Schertenleib
Personal information
Full name Sydney Joy Schertenleib
Date of birth (2007-01-30) 30 January 2007 (age 18)
Place of birth Zurich, Switzerland
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Team information
Current team
 Barcelona B / Barcelona
Number / 30
Youth career
2015-2017 FC Wädenswil
2017-2022 FC Zürich
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2022-2023 FC Zürich, FC Zürich U-21 8 (2)
2023–2024 Grasshopper Club Zürich 16 (3)
2024– FC Barcelona 5 (1)
International career
Switzerland
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 26 February 2025

Sydney Joy Schertenleib (born 30 January 2007) is a Swiss footballer who plays as a midfielder for Primera Federación club FC Barcelona and the Switzerland national team.[1][2]

Career

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Schertenleib is a prodigy of the FC Zürich youth academy which she joined at the age of 10. She played there with boys teams until the age of 15.

Her breakthrough year was at that age in 2022. In May she won the Blue Stars/FIFA Youth Cup (an international Under-19 club tournament) with the FC Zürich girls team with a win in the final against Olympique Lyonnais Féminin.[3] In August of the same year she made her first appearance in the FC Zürich U21 women's team in Nationalliga B (Swiss 2nd Divsion) against FC Wil, scoring her first goal right away.[4] In this team she played together with her older sister Lillian. Sydney scored more than one goal per game for this team in this season and Lillian almost two goals per game in average.[5]

On 1st October of the same year, Sydney made her first appearance in the Swiss Women's Super League for FC Zürich, scoring her first goal in the same game as well. In the same month, FC Zürich coach Inka Grings was denied by a UEFA rule to field Schertenleib in the UEFA Women's Champions League group stage because with year of birth 2007 she was deemed too young.[6] In May 2023 Schertenleib reached with Switzerland the Semi-Final of the 2023 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship in Estonia. Ten days later she won the Swiss championship with the FC Zürich women's team in the Playoff-Final against Servette FC Chênois Féminin as a squad member.[7]

Aged 16, she joined city rival Grasshopper Zurich in the summer of 2023. As Grasshoppers in contrast to title contender FC Zürich was at that moment a mid-table team in the Swiss Women's Super League, she had a higher probability of being fielded in the starting line-up in every game despite her young age. In the 2023-24 season she lost with Grasshoppers in the Playoff-Quarter Finals against BSC Young Boys. In February 2024, one month after turning 17, she made her first appearance for the Switzerland national team in a friendly against Poland. In July of the same year, she scored her first goal for the national team against Turkey.

After just one season at Grasshoppers, Schertenleib moved to Spain agreeing to an offer of FC Barcelona.[8] She made her first appearance for Barcelona B in Primera Federación (women) (2nd Division) on 7th of September at Villarreal. Only one week later she was already called up for the first team of FC Barcelona in a Liga F game where she was first time fielded on 2nd November in a game against Eibar. At the same time Schertenleib was nominated for the Golden Girl Award of the ten best young talents worldwide.[9]

International career overview

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Schertenleib has represented Switzerland at youth and senior level.[10][11][12][13][14]

International goals

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No. Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
1. 12 July 2024 Kocaeli Stadium, İzmit, Turkey  Turkey 1–0 2–0 UEFA Women's Euro 2025 qualifying

References

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  1. ^ "Schweizer Top-Talent Sie ist 17 – und spielt jetzt beim besten Fussballclub der Welt". Tages-Anzeiger. 24 July 2024. Retrieved 6 November 2024.
  2. ^ "Schweizer Fussball-News - Sydney Schertenleib wagt den Sprung nach Barcelona". Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF). 25 June 2024. Retrieved 6 November 2024.
  3. ^ "Blue Stars/FIFA Youth Cup 2022 at a glance". FIFA. 25 October 2024. Retrieved 26 February 2025.
  4. ^ "Sydney Schertenleib Player Profile". Soccerdonna (in German). Retrieved 26 February 2025.
  5. ^ "Lillian Schertenleib Player Profile". Soccerdonna (in German). Retrieved 26 February 2025.
  6. ^ "„Haben interessanten Plan" / Champions League FCZ Frauen – Juventus Vorschau mit Interviews". Züri Live (in German). Retrieved 26 February 2025.
  7. ^ "FCZ-Frauen stemmen den Meisterpokal erneut in die Höhe". Blick (in German). Retrieved 26 February 2025.
  8. ^ "Exciting News: Sydney Schertenleib joins Barça women's team!". Mundo Deportivo USA. 25 June 2024. Retrieved 7 November 2024.
  9. ^ "These super talents are the envy of Europe". Bluewin. 25 October 2024. Retrieved 26 February 2025.
  10. ^ "Die nächste Generation glänzt und schiesst die Schweiz zum Sieg". Tages-Anzeiger. 23 February 2024. Retrieved 6 November 2024.
  11. ^ "Fussballerin Sydney Schertenleib: Nach dem grossen Wechsel – so geht es dem Schweizer Supertalent in Barcelona". Berner Zeitung. 22 October 2024. Retrieved 6 November 2024.
  12. ^ "Von der FCZ-Bank über GC zum grössten Klub der Welt". www.blick.ch. 11 July 2024.
  13. ^ "Rekordweltmeister USA schielen auf unser Nati-Juwel". www.blick.ch. 16 March 2024.
  14. ^ "Grosse Zukunftshoffnung wird zur sechsten Schweizer Person, die für Barça auflaufen durfte". Retrieved 6 November 2024.
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