Jill Roord

Club

Twente Women

Position

Attacking Midfield

Nationality

The Netherlands

Date of birth

1997-04-22

Birthplace

Oldenzaal, Netherlands

Height

1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)

Weight

63 kg (139 lb)

Jill Jamie Roord (born 22 April 1997) is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Manchester City WFC and the Netherlands national team. She previously played for Arsenal in the English Women’s Super League, Bayern Munich in the German Frauen-Bundesliga and won multiple Dutch national titles with FC Twente in the top Dutch league. During the 2015–16 Eredivisie season, she was the top scorer in the league.

In 2017, Roord represented the Netherlands in their victorious UEFA Women's Euro 2017 campaign and competed at the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup in France two years later at the age of 22.

Born and raised in Oldenzaal, a city in the eastern province of Overijssel, Jill's father is former Dutch footballer, René Roord. Her mother played basketball. As a young child, Roord was always playing football outside with boys, her friends and brothers before and after school. She joined a club for the first time at age five. Her idol was Ronaldinho.

Roord has represented the Netherlands on the senior national team and various youth national teams including the under-19, under-17, under-16, and under-15 squads. Roord completed at and won the UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship in 2014.