Jade Boho


Jade Boho Sayo, known as Jade Boho or just Jade, is a former professional footballer who played as a forward. She has spent most of her club career in Spain, but also competed in England and Switzerland. Born and raised in Spain to a Spanish father and an Equatorial Guinean mother, she has represented Spain and Equatorial Guinea at under-19 and senior levels, respectively.
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Early life

Jade took the surnames of her mother, Lourdes Cristina Boho Sayo, an Equatoguinean emigrant who received Spanish citizenship in August 1980, and, five years later, played Oud Anna in the film Dust, before Jade was born. Her father, whose name is unknown, was Spanish, from Valladolid, where Lourdes was working and living. Jade never met him.

Club career

Spain

Jade previously played for AD Torrejón CF. and Rayo Vallecano, winning three championships and one national cup and playing the UEFA Champions League with the latter.

England

In summer 2015 Jade signed for Bristol Academy who were winless and at the bottom of the FA WSL table. Despite making long journeys for national team duty in Africa, she proved a prolific goalscorer and was hailed as "inspirational" by the team's coach. When Bristol were relegated, Jade left the club to sign for Reading ahead of the 2016 FA WSL season but her stay was short after making the decision to return to Madrid. Her last appearance for the club was on 30 October against Chelsea.

International career

Spain U19

Jade was born and raised in Spain, but her mother is from Equatorial Guinea, so she was eligible to represent either country. She played in the Spanish team that won the 2004 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship, scoring the first goal of the final match against Germany.

Equatorial Guinea

Jade has been a member of the Equatoguinean senior team since 2010. Because Jade competed for Spain in the 2004 FIFA U-19 Women's World Championship, scoring two goals in the second match, she had been registered as a Spanish player in FIFA's database.
Just days prior to the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup, FIFA temporarily suspended Jade from both international and club competition for two months, on the grounds that she was playing with Equatorial Guinea while having played with a Spanish national team within the past five years. Since the Equatoguinean Football Federation did not complete the process of changing her FIFA-registered nationality in a timely manner, she was declared ineligible, and Equatorial Guinea were also removed from qualifying for the 2012 Summer Olympics as a result. In September 2011 she announced she would not play for Equatorial Guinea anymore. However, Jade reversed her decision a year later, to go to Malabo for a friendly match against the Democratic Republic of the Congo in June 2012. She then won the African Championship that year.

International goals

Scores and results list Equatorial Guinea's goal tally first
No.DateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition
12 November 2010Sinaba Stadium, Daveyton, South Africa1–02–22010 African Women's Championship
211 November 2010Sinaba Stadium, Daveyton, South Africa2–03–12010 African Women's Championship
314 November 2010Sinaba Stadium, Daveyton, South Africa2–32–42010 African Women's Championship
417 April 2011Estadio de Malabo, Malabo, Equatorial Guinea2–00–32012 CAF Women's Pre-Olympic Tournament
523 June 2012Estadio de Malabo, Malabo, Equatorial Guinea2–03–0Friendly
631 October 2012Estadio de Malabo, Malabo, Equatorial Guinea6–06–02012 African Women's Championship
73 November 2012Estadio de Malabo, Malabo, Equatorial Guinea1–05–02012 African Women's Championship
83 November 2012Estadio de Malabo, Malabo, Equatorial Guinea2–05–02012 African Women's Championship
97 June 2014Estadio de Malabo, Malabo, Equatorial Guinea1–02–22014 African Women's Championship qualification
1023 May 2015Stade de Kinkala, Kinkala, Republic of the Congo2–03–02015 CAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament
1123 May 2015Stade de Kinkala, Kinkala, Republic of the Congo3–03–02015 CAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament
1231 May 2015Estadio de Bata, Bata, Equatorial Guinea1–04–02015 CAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament
1331 May 2015Estadio de Bata, Bata, Equatorial Guinea2–04–02015 CAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament
1431 May 2015Estadio de Bata, Bata, Equatorial Guinea3–04–02015 CAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament
1510 April 2016Estadio de Malabo, Malabo, Equatorial Guinea1–02–12016 Africa Women Cup of Nations qualification
1626 November 2017Estadio de Malabo, Malabo, Equatorial Guinea3–04–0Friendly
1726 November 2017Estadio de Malabo, Malabo, Equatorial Guinea4–04–0Friendly
186 June 2018Kenyatta Stadium, Machakos, Kenya1–01–22018 Africa Women Cup of Nations qualification

Honours

Club

International

Personal life

Although born in Valladolid, Jade feels Madrilenian as she has lived in Madrid since she was three months old. She is openly lesbian.