Lucia Roberta Tough Bronze MBE (born 28 October 1991) is an English professional footballer who plays as a right-back for Women's Super League club Chelsea and the England women's national team. She has previously played for Sunderland, Everton, Liverpool, Lyon, Manchester City and Barcelona as well as North Carolina at college level in the United States and Great Britain at the Olympics. Bronze has won a total of five Champions League titles, three with Lyon and two with Barcelona; three Women's Super League title…
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s, with Liverpool and Manchester City, and the Euro 2022 with England.
Bronze represented England from under-17 level and has been part of the senior national team at every major tournament since the Euro 2013, having first captained them in 2018. She won the Silver Ball at the 2019 World Cup in France, helping England to a fourth-place finish. Bronze was named to the All-Star Squads at the 2015 World Cup in Canada, in which England finished third, as well as the Euro 2017 in the Netherlands and the 2019 World Cup. She has won the PFA Women's Players' Player of the Year award twice – in 2014 and 2017.
In 2018 and 2020, Bronze was named BBC Women's Footballer of the Year. In 2019, she became the first English footballer to win the UEFA Women's Player of the Year Award, and won the inaugural Globe Soccer Award for the Women's Best Player. Bronze was named The Best FIFA Women's Player in December 2020. She is regarded as one of the best players in women's football, with Phil Neville having described her as undoubtedly the "best player in the world". Men in Blazers listed her as one of the 100 best footballers (men and women) of all time.
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