Jayde Yuk Fun Riviere... she/her... speaks English and understands Chinese... her father Tony was born in Roseau, DMA while her mother Emily was born in Kowloon, HKG... grew up playing soccer... she was four years old when she started playing soccer for West Rouge SC... growing up, favourites included Cristiano Ronaldo, Neymar, Lionel Messi, Kadeisha Buchanan, Marta, Real Madrid, FC Barcelona...

on 18 June 2024, the Jayde Riviere Field was named in her honour by Pickering FC... on the day she won an Olympic Gold Medal in 2021, the City of Markham honoured her by proclaiming it Jayde Riviere Day... was part of Team Canada that won an Olympic Gold Medal at Tokyo in 2021, recognised as a Canada Soccer Team of Distinction...

won a gold medal with Canada at the Olympic Games (Tokyo 2021)... represented Canada at two FIFA World Cups (France 2019, Australia & New Zealand 2023) and two Olympic Games (Tokyo 2021, Paris 2024)… won two Concacaf medals with Canada (2020 silver, 2022 silver)… represented Canada at two FIFA youth tournaments (U-17 at Jordan 2016 and Uruguay 2018)... won two Concacaf youth medals with Canada (2016 silver U-15 and 2018 bronze U-17)…

with Manchester United FC, an FA Cup winner (2023-24)...

part of the Canada Soccer team that met Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Langford ahead of their international match on 8 April 2022 (a surprise visit by the Prime Minister at the team hotel)...

said Riviere of her first international goal, “I was a little bit in shock and the next thing I turn around and I’m being carried around by Sophie Schmidt, but it was really cool to get my first international goal”...

For Country

she was 14 years old when she made her debut in the Canadian youth program in 2015 with coach Bev Priestman... won a silver medal with Canada at the 2016 CONCACAF Girls’ Under-15 Championship... represented Canada at the FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup Jordan 2016... represented Canada at the 2018 Concacaf Women’s Under-20 Championship... won a bronze medal with Canada at the 2018 Concacaf Women’s Under-17 Championship in Nicaragua and USA... finished fourth with Canada at the FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup Uruguay 2018...

she was 16 years old when she made her debut for Canada on 12 November 2017... represented Canada at the FIFA Women’s World Cup France 2019... won a silver medal with Canada at the 2020 Concacaf Women’s Olympic Qualifying Championship (Canada qualified for Tokyo 2020)... she scored her first international “A” goal for Canada on 29 January 2020 in Edinburg, TX, USA (incidentally the same match in which Christine Sinclair broke the world’s all-time international goalscoring record)… won an Olympic gold medal with Canada at the Tokyo 2020 Women’s Olympic Football Tournament in 2021...

won a silver medal with Canada at the 2022 Concacaf Women’s Championship in Mexico (Canada qualified for Australia & New Zealand 2023)...