Lianne Sanderson

About

English international forward who represented her country at the 2007 and 2015 FIFA Women's World Cups. She also won the 2009 Cyprus Cup.

Before Fame

She joined Arsenal in 1997 and made her debut with the senior team in 2003, where she starred until joining Chelsea in 2008.

Trivia

Despite first making the English national team in 2006, later disputes with then-manager Hope Powell kept her off the team from 2010 to 2014.

Family Life

Openly gay, she was engaged to Joanna Lohman in 2014. The two were teammates on the Philadelphia Independence.

Associated With

She became teammates with US star Alex Morgan when she joined the Orlando Pride in 2016.