Phoebe Victoria Licence (born 20 August 1999) is a professional

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby lea ...

who plays as a

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for the American college soccer team Flagler Saints. She also played for

Exeter City Exeter City Football Club is a professional association football club based in Exeter, Devon, England. The team play in , the third level of the English football league system. Known as "the Grecians", the origin of their nickname is subject to ...

in England. Born in

Bahrain Bahrain, officially the Kingdom of Bahrain, is an island country in West Asia. Situated on the Persian Gulf, it comprises a small archipelago of 50 natural islands and an additional 33 artificial islands, centered on Bahrain Island, which mak ...

to English parents, she represents the

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Personal life

Licence was born in

Manama Manama ( ', Bahrani Arabic, Bahrani pronunciation: ) is the capital and List of cities in Bahrain, largest city of Bahrain, with an approximate population of 297,502 as of 2012. Long an important trading center in the Persian Gulf, Manama is ...

, Bahrain to English parents Simon and Jane Licence. She has two older brothers, Seb and her twin brother William Licence, whom she credits for her passion for football. She graduated from

King's College, Taunton King's College is an independent co-educational day and boarding school in Taunton, Somerset, England, providing education for 2 to 18-year-olds. Set across two sites, it is surrounded by Somerset countryside. A member school of the Woodard Co ...

Club career

Licence has played for

women's football club in the

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South West Division One.

International career

Licence made her senior debut for Bahrain on 22 May 2013 in the 2014 AFC Women's Asian Cup qualification match against

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. She participated in the

2019 WAFF Women's Championship The 2019 West Asian Football Federation Women's Championship was the 6th edition of the WAFF Women's Championship, the international women's football championship of Western Asia organised by the West Asian Football Federation (WAFF). It was he ...

held at Bahrain where she scored a goal in the group stage win against

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International goals

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* 1999 births Living people Footballers from Manama Bahraini women's footballers 21st-century Bahraini sportswomen Bahrain women's international footballers English expatriates in Bahrain English women's footballers English expatriate women's footballers FA Women's National League players English expatriate sportspeople in the United States Expatriate women's soccer players in the United States People educated at King's College, Taunton Women's association football midfielders 21st-century English sportswomen {{Asia-women-footy-bio-stub