Chelsea Blaine Stewart (born April 28, 1990) is a Canadian former soccer player who played as a defender for the

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Personal

Stewart was born in Denver, Colorado to a Canadian father and an Italian mother (from

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). She was raised in Denver and

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, her father's homeland. She comes from a family of sport. Her father and brother both played

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while her sister is also a soccer player. She was raised in

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Youth career

Stewart attended

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her freshman year and scored 3 goals in 18 games for the Commodores. She then transferred to

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, and after sitting out a year because of national team commitments, scored 2 goals in 66 games for the Bruins.

Club career

In January 2014, the Canadian women's national team allocated Stewart to the

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of the

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(NWSL). She signed on loan for Japanese club

INAC Kobe Leonessa INAC Kobe is a Japanese football club from Kobe, founded in 2001. INAC stands for International Athletic Club while Leonessa means Lioness in Italian. In 2006 INAC Leonessa was promoted to the Nadeshiko.League, where it has played since 2020. ...

in October 2014. In 2015, Stewart returned to the NWSL after the

Western New York Flash The Western New York Flash (WNY Flash) was an American soccer club based in Elma, New York that competed in the United Women's Soccer league. They have won league championships in four different leagues: the USL W-League in 2010, Women's Profes ...

signed her as a Discovery Player. Stewart was waived by the Flash on July 22, 2015. Stewart signed for

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club

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on August 8, 2016.

International career

Stewart has represented Canada on the U-20 youth as well as participating in the

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. When the Canadian team that competed in the

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defeated

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1–0 on August 9, 2012 in the bronze medal match, Stewart was awarded a medal since she had played in four of the matches for Canada.Fifa Statistics
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