Chantal Alida Maria de Ridder (born 19 January 1989) is a Dutch football

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club

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as well as the senior

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Club career

Before signing for Ajax in January 2013, De Ridder last played for Turbine Potsdam in

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. She had previously competed in the Netherlands'

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, winning four titles with Ter Leede and AZ. She scored her first goal for Turbine in the 10–0 2011–12 Champions League home win against Glasgow City. Due to a long term knee injury suffered in December 2011, she only played seven Bundesliga matches. She left Potsdam in January 2013 and headed back to the Netherlands, intent on getting more match practice and breaking back into the Dutch team ahead of

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International career

She was a member of the

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, and played in the 2009 European Championship after making her senior debut on 29 July 2007 against

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. In June 2013 national team

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selected De Ridder in the Netherlands squad for

in Sweden.

International goals

:''Scores and results list the Netherlands goal tally first.''

Honours

;Ter Leede * Dutch Championship (1): 2006–07 *

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(1): 2006–07 ;AZ *

(3): 2007–08, 2008–09, 2009–10 *

(1): 2010–11 ;Turbine Potsdam *

(1): 2011–12 ;Ajax *

(1): 2016–17 *

(2): 2013–14, 2016–17

References

External links

*
de Ridder profile on club website
*
de Ridder profile on women's Netherlands
1989 births Living people Footballers from Leiden Dutch women's footballers Netherlands women's international footballers Dutch expatriate sportspeople in Germany Expatriate women's footballers in Germany Eredivisie (women) players Frauen-Bundesliga players AZ Alkmaar (women) players 1. FFC Turbine Potsdam players AFC Ajax (women) players Women's association football forwards Dutch expatriate women's footballers Ter Leede players 20th-century Dutch women 20th-century Dutch people 21st-century Dutch women {{Netherlands-women-footy-bio-stub