SAM KERR is regarded as one of the best players of all time in women’s football, and has enjoyed huge success on the pitch.
The Australian national and Chelsea forward consistently smashes records with her goal scoring abilities, and Kerr’s love life is equally triumphant.
Who is Sam Kerr?
Sam Kerr is an Australian professional football player who made her debut at just 15 years old.
She was born on September 10, 1993, in East Fremantle, Australia.
Kerr’s father, Roger, and older brother, Daniel, were both professional Australian rules footballers.
Her mother, Roxanne, also came from a sporting family, as her father and uncles were professionals in the West Australian Football League.
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Kerr first started playing football as a junior at Western Knights in her home of Australia, and later moved to Perth Glory.
In 2013, she signed with the Western New York Flash, before making a brief return to Perth.
After stints at Sky Blue FC and the Chicago Red stars, Kerr signed with her present club.
Who does Sam Kerr play for?
In the FA Women’s Super League Sam Kerr plays for Chelsea. Her position is a forward.
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As of April 2023, Kerr had scored an impressive 85 goals for Chelsea in just 107 appearances.
Kerr also plays for Australia’s women’s national team, which she has captained since 2019.
The team’s official nickname is “the Matildas,” which is said to have originated from an Australian folk song called Waltzing Matilda.
What has Sam Kerr won?
The better question may be; what has Sam Kerr not won?
In the past three years, Kerr has lifted the Women’s Super League (WSL) title trophy three times, the FA Cup twice, the Conti Cup twice, and the FA Community Shield.
As of 2023, Kerr is the only female football player to have won the Golden Boot, presented to the top goalscorer each season, in three different leagues and on three different continents.
She was bestowed with the honour in the W-League (in Australia and New Zealand) in 2017–18 and 2018–19, the National Women’s Soccer League (North America) in 2017, 2018, and 2019, and the WSL (Europe) in 2020–21 and 2021–22.
Kerr became Australian football’s all-time leading scorer with 61 goals in January 2022, surpassing Tim Cahill, and in September 2022, after two nominations in a row, she was voted the Professional Footballers’ Association’s Players’ Player of the Year.
Who is Sam Kerr dating?
Sam Kerr is in a relationship with girlfriend Kristie Mewis.
Kerr and Mewis, who plays as a midfielder for US side Gotham City, are thought to have been together since 2020.
The couple were first spotted getting close after an Australia vs USA match at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021.
In a joint interview with Gaffer magazine in January 2023, the couple discussed playing against each other on the football pitch.
Kerr said: “What I worry about most out of anything is that our coaches or teammates don’t think that we can separate the two. I hope people know that when it’s training time or play time, it doesn’t come into it.”
Reminiscing about a time they came face to face, Kerr added: “I remember one time in Newcastle (Australia) she came on, we were playing against each other, and we went in on each other. We’d kill each other. But I worry that people think that we’re not serious about our careers.”
Prior to dating Mewis, Kerr was in a long-term relationship with Nikki Stanton, another fellow football player from America.
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The pair split in 2020 after seven years together.
Stanton went on to date Rachael Rapinoe, the twin sister of US Olympic football legend Megan Rapinoe.
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