About Jill Scott (footballer)
Jill Louise Scott (born 2 February 1987) is an English former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. The FIFA technical report into the 2011 Women's World Cup described Scott as one of England's four outstanding players; "[an] energetic, ball-winning midfielder who organises the team well, works hard at both ends of the pitch and can change her team's angle of attack." At 5 feet 11 inches (1.81 m), Scott was nicknamed "Crouchy" after male international footballer Peter Crouch, who towered over his fellow players to a similar degree. After leaving hometown club Sunderland for Everton in 2006, she contributed to the Blues' FA Women's Premier League Cup win in 2008 and FA Women's Cup victory in 2010. With Manchester City, she won the FA WSL in 2016 and is a three-time winner of the FA Women's Cup and the FA WSL Cup. On the individual level, Scott was voted 2008 FA Players' Player of the Year. Following her retirement from football in 2022, Scott went on to win the twenty-second series of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! and was crowned "Queen of the Jungle". == Early life == Scott grew up in Fulwell, Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, and lived with parents Doreen and Bryan and three siblings, a sister Amanda who is seven years older, a brother Mark who is four years older, and a sister who is nine years younger. She attended Monkwearmouth Comprehensive School. When Scott was five she would go with her nine-year-old brother into the back lanes near their house and play football with him and his friends and Scott has commented that "...we spent all of our childhood just in the back lanes, so, if say Wimbledon was on I'd get a tennis racket from somewhere and we'd be playing tennis, if the ashes was on you'd suddenly get a cricket bat and you just went through every sport and event being in the back lanes." At the age of seven she was playing football in a boys team, and played for both a local team and a team at her school and was the only student in year 5 to be on the school football team.
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