Yazmeen Jamieson facts for kids
Jamieson with Jamaica in 2019
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| Full name | Yazmeen Alexis Jamieson | ||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 17 March 1998 | ||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Toronto, Ontario, Canada | ||||||||||||
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||||||||||||
| Playing position | Goalkeeper | ||||||||||||
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| Current club | KFF Vllaznia Shkodër | ||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||
| Toronto Eagles SC | |||||||||||||
| Unionville Milliken SC | |||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† | ||||||||||
| 2019 | Papakura City | 5 | (0) | ||||||||||
| 2021 | P18 IK | 7 | (0) | ||||||||||
| 2022 | Simcoe County Rovers FC | 12 | (0) | ||||||||||
| 2022 | GPSO 92 Issy | 1 | (0) | ||||||||||
| 2023 | Simcoe County Rovers FC | 9 | (1) | ||||||||||
| 2024– | KFF Vllaznia Shkodër | 0 | (0) | ||||||||||
| National team‡ | |||||||||||||
| 2017–2018 | Jamaica U-20 | 5 | (0) | ||||||||||
| 2018– | Jamaica | 6 | (0) | ||||||||||
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Honours
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Yazmeen Alexis Jamieson (born 17 March 1998) is a footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Albanian Women's National Championship club KFF Vllaznia Shkodër. Born in Canada, she represents the Jamaica women's national team.
Early life
Jamieson was born to a Jamaican father and a Grenadian mother. She started playing soccer at age 6. She attended Bayview Glen School, winning the Elite Athlete Award. She played youth soccer with Toronto Eagles SC and Unionville Milliken SC. She was awarded the 2017 Grenada Association of Toronto Diaspora Award.
University career
She played for Carleton University from 2016 to 2018 and suffered from an injury in 2017. In 2019, she gave up her college eligibility in order to play professionally overseas in New Zealand to improve her chances for the Jamaican national team selection for the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup.
Club career
In 2019, she joined New Zealand club Papakura City, where she made her senior debut.
In 2021, Yazmeen signed a short-term contract with the Swedish club P18 IK in the second division. She started 6 out of the seven matches she was there for and helped bring the team to the final playoffs round. The team won the final match therefore promoting them to Division 1 in Sweden.
In 2022, she joined Canadian club Simcoe County Rovers in League1 Ontario. She was named a league Third Team All-Star in 2022.
In September 2022, she joined GPSO 92 Issy in the French Division 2 Féminine.
In 2023, she returned to Simcoe County Rovers FC. On July 12, she scored a penalty kick in a 7-0 victory over ProStars FC.
In 2024, she signed with Albanian Women's National Championship club KFF Vllaznia Shkodër.
International career
In 2013, at age 15, while on a tour to Jamaica with her youth club team, the Jamaican women's technical director learned of her Jamaican heritage and arranged for her to trial with the Jamaican U20 team. Soon after, she made the roster for the Jamaican U17 team for the U17 World Cup qualifier, however, she was unable to secure her Jamaican citizenship and passport in time and was unable to join the team.
In November 2017, she received her first cap to the Jamaica U20. She was later named to the roster for the 2018 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship.
In 2018, she was named to the Jamaica senior team for the first time.
