Women's Football: Coultard scores England century
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Your support makes all the difference.Gillian Coultard will win her 100th cap for England when the international women's team takes on Scotland in a friendly at Livingston on Saturday.
Coultard is the women's game's longest-serving player and enters the history books alongside the four England men who have reached 100 caps: Bobby Moore, Sir Bobby Charlton, Peter Shilton and Billy Wright. Charlton said: "Gill will be a very proud lady when she earns her 100th cap. There are very few of us that have reached such a pinnacle in our career and I congratulate her on this achievement."
Coultard made her debut against the Republic of Ireland in May 1981 aged 18 as England won 3-1. She scored the first women's international goal at Wembley, and played in all England's games at the 1995 Women's World Cup, when England reached the quarter-finals. The central midfielder has scored 25 goals for her country and has gained many honours for her club, Doncaster Belles.
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