Daphne Koster

Daphne Koster

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Personal information
Full name	Daphne Helena Koster
Date of birth	(1981-03-13) March 13, 1981
Place of birth	Den Haag, Netherlands
Height
Position(s)	Defender
Team information
Current team	Ajax
Number	3
Youth career
1987–2000	SVA
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2000–2007	Ter Leede
2007–2010	AZ	56	(8)
2010	Sky Blue FC	18	(0)
2011	AZ	4	(0)
2011–2012	Telstar	8	(1)
2012–	Ajax	34	(0)
International career‡
1997	Netherlands U-19
1997–	Netherlands	136	(6)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 11:20, 9 June 2015 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 20:44, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

Daphne Helena Koster (born 13 March 1981) is a Dutch football defender, currently playing for Ajax in the Vrouwen Eredivisie. She has also played in the American Women's Professional Soccer (WPS) for Sky Blue FC. A powerful centre back, she is the captain of both the Netherlands women's national football team and Ajax.

Koster made her senior national team debut as a 16-year-old in August 1997, against Switzerland. At the time she was playing for boys' amateur club SVA Assendelft, where she remained until under-19 level.

In 2009 Koster was a mainstay of the Dutch team which reached the semi-finals of UEFA Women's Euro 2009 in Finland. In June 2013 national team coach Roger Reijners selected Koster in the Netherlands squad for UEFA Women's Euro 2013 in Sweden.