Boitumelo Rabale
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Boitumelo Joyce Rabale[1] | ||
| Date of birth | 5 August 1996[1] | ||
| Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)[2] | ||
| Position(s) | Forward[2] | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Mamelodi Sundowns | ||
| Number | 10 | ||
| College career | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2018–2019 | LCCC Trailblazers | ||
| 2020 | CBU Capers | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2015 | Likhosatsana | ||
| 2016–2017 | Bloemfontein Celtic | ||
| 2021– | Mamelodi Sundowns | (19) | |
| International career | |||
| Lesotho | |||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Boitumelo Joyce Rabale (born 5 August 1996) is a Mosotho professional footballer who plays as a forward for SAFA Women's League club Mamelodi Sundowns and captains the Lesotho women's national team.
Early life[edit]
Rabale was raised in Maseru.[2]
Club career[edit]
In 2015, Rabale won the inaugural Lesotho Women's Super League with Likhosatsana.[3]
In 2016 and 2017, Rabale captained Bloemfontein Celtic and led the club to win the league.[3]
In April 2017, Rabale won Lesotho's Sports Star of the Year award.[4]
She won the 2023 CAF Women's Champions League with Mamelodi Sundowns and was named player of the tournament. [5]
College career[edit]
Rabale left Bloemfontein Celtic was awarded a Kick4Life Student-Athlete Scholarship where she moved to Lewis and Clark Community College.[6] In January 2020, she was named the National Junior College Women's Soccer Player of the Year following her 2019 season with the LCCC Trailblazers, in which she was the league's top goalscorer with 57 goals and placed third with her team in the NJCAA Division National Tournament.[3][7]
International career[edit]
Rabale capped for Lesotho at senior level during the 2018 Africa Women Cup of Nations qualification.[8]
Honours[edit]
Club
Individual
- CAF Women's Champions League Player of the Tournament: 2023[5]
- CAF Women's Champions League Team of the Tournament: 2023[5]
References[edit]
- ^ a b "Competitions - 11th Edition Women AFCON- GHANA 2018 - Team Details - Player Details". CAF.
- ^ a b c "Boitumelo Rabale". Cape Breton Athletics. Retrieved 3 November 2020.
- ^ a b c Pheko, Lipholo (8 January 2020). "Queen wins top US award". The Post.
- ^ Tsiane, Moorosi (13 April 2017). "Tsibela, Rabale win big at sports awards". Lesotho Times – via PressReader.
- ^ a b c "CAF Women's Champions League, Cote d'Ivoire Best Xl confirmed". CAF. 22 November 2023. Retrieved 22 November 2023.
- ^ Tsiane, Moorosi (5 August 2018). "Boitumelo Rabale cherishes the USA Challenge ahead". Soka 25 East.
- ^ "Rabale wins big in America". Lesotho Football Association. 21 January 2020.
- ^ "Competitions - 11th Edition Women AFCON- GHANA 2018 - Match Details". CAF. Retrieved 6 September 2020.
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- 1996 births
- Living people
- People from Maseru
- Lesotho women's footballers
- Women's association football forwards
- Lewis & Clark College alumni
- Cape Breton University alumni
- College women's soccer players in the United States
- Lesotho women's international footballers
- Lesotho expatriate women's footballers
- Expatriates in the United States
- Expatriate women's soccer players in the United States
- Lesotho expatriates
- Expatriates in Canada
- Expatriate women's soccer players in Canada
- Lesotho expatriate sportspeople in South Africa
- Expatriate women's soccer players in South Africa
- Lesotho football biography stubs
- Southern African women's football biography stubs
- Mamelodi Sundowns Ladies F.C. players