Jessica Lucetta Léone Houara-d'Hommeaux (née Houara) (born 29 September 1987) is a former French

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who played as a

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for

Paris Saint-Germain Paris Saint-Germain Football Club, commonly referred to as Paris Saint-Germain () or simply PSG, is a French professional Association football, football club based in Paris. They compete in Ligue 1, the French football league system, top d ...

Lyon Lyon (Franco-Provençal: ''Liyon'') is a city in France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of the French Alps, southeast of Paris, north of Marseille, southwest of Geneva, Switzerland, north ...

and other French clubs, and for the France national team.

Club career

Jessica Houara made her debut at club, then joined and

AS Saint-Étienne Association Sportive de Saint-Étienne Loire (), abbreviated as A.S.S.E. () and commonly known as Saint-Étienne, is a French professional football club based in Saint-Étienne, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. The club was founded in 1933 and competes ...

. She then signed with PSG for 7 years. With the Paris club, she won a

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in 2010, and finished second in the championship five times. In 2016, she joined

Olympique Lyonnais Olympique Lyonnais (), commonly referred to as simply Lyon () or OL, is a French professional association football, football club based in Lyon, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France. With origins dating back to 1899, they were founded in 1950 and p ...

. On 18 November 2018, she and Lyon played against PSG - her former club, Lyon then lost 0-1. In the same year, she left Lyon after two years of serious knee injury. She announced her retirement at the same time as her pregnancy.

International career

Jessica Houara was selected for various national youth team. With the under-19, she was a runner-up in the UEFA European U19 Championship in

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and

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. With the under-20s, she was called up to French's squad for the 2006 Under-20 World Cup. The French team reached the quarter-finals of the competition, but get knocked-out by U20 North Korea. She made her debut for the senior France national team on 8 March 2008 in a

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against

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Career statistics

''Correct as of 2018''

International goals

Honours

Club

Lyon

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2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

National Team

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References

External links

PSG player profile
* * 1987 births Living people French women's footballers CNFE Clairefontaine players AS Saint-Étienne (women) players Paris Saint-Germain FC (women) players Olympique Lyonnais Féminin players Footballers from Angers France women's youth international footballers France women's international footballers Women's association football midfielders 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup players French sportspeople of Algerian descent Footballers at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic footballers for France Première Ligue players UEFA Women's Euro 2017 players UEFA Women's Champions League–winning players 21st-century French sportswomen {{France-women-footy-bio-stub