Eve Badana

Club career Badana was captain of her local team Unionville Milliken SC, then joined Toronto Lady Lynx where she was also named captain and helped the Under-20 team qualify for the 2010 Super Y-League finals. In 2011, she agreed a scholarship to Drexel University. Badana's first season in college soccer saw her named in the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) All-Rookie team and also the All-Conference Second Team.

On 27 September 2016 Badana signed for Cork City, after she decided to relocate to Ireland and finish her legal studies at University College Cork. At Cork City she competed for a starting position with Amanda Budden. Badana then accepted a job with a legal firm in Dublin and signed for DLR Waves during the 2019 Women's National League season.

International career Youth While a pupil at Brother André Catholic High School in her native Markham, Badana attended the National Training Centre in Ontario. She came to the attention of Canada women's national soccer team selectors who drafted her into the national Under-17 squad. Badana was then part of the Canadian selection at the 2010 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup. On her senior international debut in February 2012, Badana played 90 minutes of Ireland's 1–0 Algarve Cup defeat by Hungary.

In May 2012 Badana won another senior cap in a 1–0 friendly defeat by Switzerland at Stadion Niedermatten and made a substitute appearance in a 1–0 win over South Africa at the 2013 Cyprus Cup. On 5 May 2014, Ireland manager Susan Ronan named Badana in an experimental squad for a friendly against the Basque Country. Badana started the game in Ireland's 2–0 defeat in Azpeitia, which was not classified as a full international fixture.

She remained an understudy, usually to the recognised first-choice goalkeeper Emma Byrne. She returned to the squad in June 2021 for two friendlies against Iceland, but still had only three caps following her debut almost a decade earlier.

Badana also represented Ireland at the 2013, 2015 and 2017 editions of the Summer Universiade.

International Appearances