Danielle Monique Etienne (born 16 January 2001) is a

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who plays as a

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for

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team The Citadel Bulldogs. Born in the United States, she represents

Haiti Haiti, officially the Republic of Haiti, is a country on the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and south of the Bahamas. It occupies the western three-eighths of the island, which it shares with the Dominican ...

at international level.

International career

Etienne represented the Haitian National Team at various levels. Etienne competed at the 2018 CONCACAF Women's U-17 Championship in Nicaragua, the

2018 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship The 2018 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship was the 9th edition of the CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship, the biennial international youth association football, football championship organised by CONCACAF for the women's under-20 national teams ...

in Trinidad and Tobago, the 2018 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup in France, the 2020 CONCACAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Championship in the United States and the

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in the Dominican Republic. She made a senior appearance debut on October 3, 2019, vs. Suriname. Danielle scored her first goal for the senior women's team in Haiti's historic 21–0 win over the British Virgin Islands in 2023 World Cup Qualifiers. In February 2023, Etienne was called up to the senior team that again made history defeating Senegal and Chile in playoff matches in New Zealand securing their first ever appearance in the 2023 Fifa Women's World Cup Finals. Etienne competed in the

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making an appearance against China in a 1-0 loss in the group stage.

International goals

Personal life

Etienne is the daughter of former Haitian International and Long Island Roughriders forward Derrick Etienne and the younger sister of Darice Etienne and Haitian International winger Derrick Etienne Jr. Danielle Etienne attended Paramus Catholic High School before joining

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. Etienne returned to the national team two months after giving birth to her son Ezekiel, and earned a place in Haiti's final roster competing in the 2023 Fifa Women's World Cup Finals only seven months after giving birth.

References

2001 births Living people Haitian women's footballers Women's association football midfielders Haiti women's international footballers American women's soccer players Soccer players from Passaic County, New Jersey Sportspeople from Paterson, New Jersey African-American soccer players American sportspeople of Haitian descent Fordham Rams women's soccer players Paramus Catholic High School alumni 21st-century American sportswomen 21st-century African-American sportswomen 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup players The Citadel Bulldogs women's soccer players 21st-century Haitian sportswomen {{US-women-footy-midfielder-stub