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Ruesha Littlejohn (born 3 July 1990) is a football striker who plays for Celtic of the Scottish Women's Premier League (SWPL) . At club level she previously represented Glasgow City in Scotland and had short spells with Norwegian First Division club IL Sandviken and in England with Arsenal and Liverpool. Littlejohn chose to represent Republic of Ireland at senior international level despite having represented Scotland at junior level. ==Club career== Glasgow-born Littlejohn played youth football with Clydebank and Baillieston girls before joining Arsenal North Ladies. She signed for Glasgow City in January 2007 and won four successive titles with the club. In January 2010 Littlejohn signed for English champions Arsenal and made an immediate debut in the Gunners' 2–1 home win over Chelsea. Shortly afterwards Tony Gervaise, who had also been Littlejohn's coach in Scotland's youth national teams, stood down as Arsenal manager. With Littlejohn then out of favour she returned to Scotland on loan with Rangers, where she featured in the first women's match to be staged at Ibrox Stadium. Littlejohn then returned to Glasgow City. She hit seven goals in the final game of the season against Inverness, as City secured another Premier League title. Along with Megan Sneddon and Suzanne Lappin, Littlejohn signed for Liverpool Ladies ahead of the 2011 FA WSL season. The Scottish trio made their Liverpool bow in a friendly win over Hibernian Ladies. On her competitive debut against Charlton Athletic in the FA Women's Cup, Littlejohn marked the occasion by scoring a hat-trick. She also fired a last-minute goal as Liverpool held rivals Everton 3–3 in the opening match of the WSL campaign. During the mid-season break Littlejohn and Lappin went back to Scotland, this time with Celtic, making their debuts against Rangers. In May 2012 the Football Association (FA) gave Littlejohn a six-match ban and charged her £500 costs for comments made on Twitter. During the 2012 FA WSL mid-season break, Littlejohn returned to Glasgow City: "It is great to be back at City again. I know the club so well. I have been here since I turned 16 years old and City is like my home, as I always seem to come back here." In March 2014 Littlejohn signed for the Norwegian First Division club IL Sandviken, based in Bergen. 〔(Irish player to Sandviken )〕 By August she had scored 11 goals in 13 games to top the goalscorer's chart. She finished the season as the league's joint-top goalscorer with 19 goals from 22 matches as Sandviken were promoted to the Toppserien as champions. Littlejohn was called into the Ireland squad in February 2015, listed as a free agent. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ruesha Littlejohn」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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