Jade Boho


Jade Boho Sayo, simply known as Jade, is a Spanish-born Equatorial Guinean footballer who plays as a forward for EdF Logroño and the Equatorial Guinea women's national team.
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

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.
She 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. The Equatoguinean Football Federation did not complete the process of changing her FIFA nationality in a timely manner. So in June 2011, when Jade was about to participate in the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup, FIFA detected the irregularity and suspended her for two months both in her club and her national team, which was 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
1
2 November 2010Sinaba Stadium, Daveyton, South Africa
1–0
2–2
2010 African Women's Championship
2
11 November 2010Sinaba Stadium, Daveyton, South Africa
2–0
3–1
2010 African Women's Championship
3
14 November 2010Sinaba Stadium, Daveyton, South Africa
2–3
2–4
2010 African Women's Championship
4
17 April 2011Estadio de Malabo, Malabo, Equatorial Guinea
2–0
0–3
2012 CAF Women's Pre-Olympic Tournament
5
23 June 2012Estadio de Malabo, Malabo, Equatorial Guinea
2–0
3–0
Friendly
6
31 October 2012Estadio de Malabo, Malabo, Equatorial Guinea
6–0
6–0
2012 African Women's Championship
7
3 November 2012Estadio de Malabo, Malabo, Equatorial Guinea
1–0
5–0
2012 African Women's Championship
8
3 November 2012Estadio de Malabo, Malabo, Equatorial Guinea
2–0
5–0
2012 African Women's Championship
9
7 June 2014Estadio de Malabo, Malabo, Equatorial Guinea
1–0
2–2
2014 African Women's Championship qualification
10
23 May 2015Stade de Kinkala, Kinkala, Republic of the Congo
2–0
3–0
2015 CAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament
11
23 May 2015Stade de Kinkala, Kinkala, Republic of the Congo
3–0
3–0
2015 CAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament
12
31 May 2015Estadio de Bata, Bata, Equatorial Guinea
1–0
4–0
2015 CAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament
13
31 May 2015Estadio de Bata, Bata, Equatorial Guinea
2–0
4–0
2015 CAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament
14
31 May 2015Estadio de Bata, Bata, Equatorial Guinea
3–0
4–0
2015 CAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament
15
10 April 2016Estadio de Malabo, Malabo, Equatorial Guinea
1–0
2–1
2016 Africa Women Cup of Nations qualification
16
26 November 2017Estadio de Malabo, Malabo, Equatorial Guinea
3–0
4–0
Friendly
17
26 November 2017Estadio de Malabo, Malabo, Equatorial Guinea
4–0
4–0
Friendly
18
6 June 2018Kenyatta Stadium, Machakos, Kenya
1–0
1–2
2018 Africa Women Cup of Nations qualification

Team honours

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