Assile Toufaily

Assile Toufaily (Arabic: أسيل طفيلي; born 16 August 1996) is a Lebanese former footballer who played as a midfielder. She also played futsal.

Assile Toufaily
Personal information
Date of birth (1996-08-16) 16 August 1996
Place of birth Nabatieh, Lebanon[1]
Position(s) Midfielder
Youth career
2010–2012 Shabab Arabi
2012–2015 GFA
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
0000–2017 GFA
2017–2019 SAS
2019–2021 Safa
International career
2014 Lebanon U19[2]
2013–2018 Lebanon 5+ (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Club career

Toufaily became interested in football aged six, in 2002, after attending a game between Ansar and Nejmeh in Beirut with her father and younger brother.[3] In November 2009, she took part in the "Football Festival" organised in Jordan by the Norwegian Football Federation.[3] Toufaily signed her first contract a few months later in 2010,[4] and played two seasons at Shabab Arabi's youth system.[3]

She spent the following years with three other clubs (GFA, SAS and Safa).[3] After having won two Lebanese Women's Football League titles with SAS in 2016–17 and 2018–19,[3] Toufaily signed for Safa in 2019.[5] During the 2020–21 season, she sustained an ACL injury, which forced her to retire in 2021.[3]

International career

Toufaily played for the Lebanon national team.[6]

Personal life

After her retirement as a player in 2021, Toufaily moved to Lyon, France, to study sociology of sport at Claude Bernard University Lyon 1.[3]

Honours

SAS

Safa

See also

References
  1. "Assile Toufaily". Global Sports Archive. Retrieved 19 July 2022.
  2. https://web.archive.org/web/20150721102948/http://www.the-afc.com/afcasfeeds?fixtureid=8457&stageid=337&tMode=C&view=ajax&show=matchsummary
  3. Renaud-Bourbon, Alex (17 July 2022). "Enquête : Le chemin vers la professionnalisation au Liban". Renards des Surfaces (in French). Retrieved 19 July 2022.
  4. Habib, Mabel (17 July 2020). كرة القدم النسائية تجتاز الحواجز وتتسلق القمة [Women's football crosses barriers and climbs to the top]. arabia.eurosport.com. Archived from the original on 24 July 2020. Retrieved 19 July 2022.
  5. Safa WFC [@safawfc] (7 July 2019). "Going big for our first signing of the season! Welcome Assile Toufaily" – via Instagram.
  6. "Assile Toufaily: Yes, women can play football!". NETMED Youth. 17 March 2017. Retrieved 19 July 2022.


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