Alex Greenwood

Alex Greenwood (Born 7 September 1993) is an English footballer who plays as a defender for Liverpool of the FA WSL. She previously played for Notts County and Everton, where she began her career. Greenwood has played for the England women's national football team since 2014 and was named the FA Women's Young Player of the Year in 2012. She can play at centre-back as well as left-back and is considered to be a set-piece specialist.

Club career

Liverpool-born Greenwood joined Everton at the age of eight, and progressed through the club's Centre of Excellence. In August 2010 she made her first team debut in the 2010–11 UEFA Women's Champions League qualification round.

When Everton's longstanding left-back Rachel Unitt signed for Birmingham City after the 2011 FA WSL season, Greenwood took over her place in the team. Throughout the 2012 season she performed so well that she was named FA Young Player of the Year at The Football Association (FA) Women's Football Awards in November.

Alex Greenwood (footballer, born 1933)

Alexander John "Alex" Greenwood (born 17 June 1933) is an English former professional footballer who played as a full back.

Career

Born in Fulham, Greenwood played for Ferryhill Athletic, Chelsea, Crystal Palace, Scarborough and Darlington.

References

Alex Greenwood (British Army officer)

Major Arthur Alexander Greenwood (8 March 1920 – 7 November 2012) was a British Army officer.

Greenwood was born in Corby Glen, Lincolnshire and educated at Oakham School. He enlisted in the Royal Lincolnshire Regiment and was commissioned as a second lieutenant on 10 June 1939, before serving in the Second World War in Norway and Iceland. He served as aide-de-camp to General Claude Auchinleck in India during the Second World War. He was promoted to lieutenant in 1945, with seniority from 8 September 1942. Following the war he served in the Territorial and Army Volunteer Reserve in the Intelligence Corps, and was promoted to captain on 7 April 1959. Greenwood later became a member of the executive committee which surrounded General Sir Walter Colyear Walker, and tasked itself with creating a contingency plan for the British Army to takeover British Government if the communist threat perceived in Britain at the time ever got out of hand.

In 1980 he emigrated to Canada, and became a Canadian citizen in 1983.

Alex Greenwood (disambiguation)

Alex Greenwood (born 1993) is an English footballer who plays for the England women's national football team.

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