Canada’s Zadorsky leading the way at WSL’s Tottenham Hotspur

MIAMI, Florida – Leadership is one of the most important assets of any player. There are many types of leaders, and Canadian DF Shelina Zadorsky has proven to be one of the best with her National Team and her club at English Women’s Super League side Tottenham Hotspur.

Thanks to her mindset and willingness to go far and beyond for her team, she has been a key player in many teams since a very young age. The 30-year-old has been a constant presence with the Canadian Women’s National Team at all levels since she was 14 years old. Having experienced much as a young footballer, she has accumulated a lot of knowledge on how to lead and defend.

She is no stranger to winning medals, as she has been collecting them since her time in the Under-17 National Team and then winning silver at the 2012 Concacaf Women’s Under-20 Championship. At the Senior level, she has been decorated several times, becoming an Olympic medalist in 2016, when she and Canada earned the Bronze Medal after a great run in Rio.

However, the biggest and brightest medal she owns came in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, when the North Americans became Olympic Champions for the first time. Zadorsky was a mainstay in the initial XI and was key to the defensive line in Canada’s triumph against every team they faced in Japan.

As one of the best teams in Concacaf, Canada is a squad that everyone looks forward to watching in the biggest competition in women’s football, the FIFA Women’s World Cup. Zadorsky played four games for her country in the 2019 edition of the World Cup in France. Her name is expected to be on the list that will travel this summer to Australia/New Zealand.

Zadorsky has also had a great club career, in which her leadership has been one of the most important parts of her game. A graduate of the University of Michigan, she tasted European football when she played for the Swedish team Vittsjö GIK in 2015. She later went back to the United States to play in the NWSL. Washington Spirit and Orlando Pride were the teams she defended between 2016 and 2020, before she flew across the Atlantic once again.

In 2020 she landed in London on loan from the Orlando Pride to Tottenham Hotspur to help the team keep growing in the English Women’s Super League. Zadorsky would then stay on and become a permanent signing in 2021.

Leading Spurs in every game and reaching new goals every time they take the pitch, she was appointed captain. Overall, she has played 33 league matches with Tottenham since her arrival.

With a great year for women’s football both in club and country ahead of her, Zadorsky will be ready to keep leading her teams into greatness, one game at a time.