# Jade Boho

Jade Boho Sayo (born 30 August 1986), known as Jade Boho or just Jade, is a former professional footballer who played as a forward. She has spent most of her club career in Spain, but also competed in England and Switzerland. Born and raised in Spain to a Spanish father and an Equatorial Guinean mother, she has represented Spain and Equatorial Guinea at under-19 and senior levels, respectively.

## Early life

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
### Spain U19

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.

### Equatorial Guinea

Jade 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.
Just days prior to the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup, FIFA temporarily suspended Jade from both international and club competition for two months, on the grounds that she was playing with Equatorial Guinea while having played with a Spanish national team within the past five years. Since the Equatoguinean Football Federation did not complete the process of changing her FIFA-registered nationality in a timely manner, she was declared ineligible, and Equatorial Guinea were also 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. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
| 1 | 2 November 2010 | Sinaba Stadium, Daveyton, South Africa | Cameroon | 1–0 | 2–2 | 2010 African Women's Championship |
| 2 | 11 November 2010 | Sinaba Stadium, Daveyton, South Africa | South Africa | 2–0 | 3–1 | 2010 African Women's Championship |
| 3 | 14 November 2010 | Sinaba Stadium, Daveyton, South Africa | Nigeria | 2–3 | 2–4 | 2010 African Women's Championship |
| 4 | 17 April 2011 | Estadio de Malabo, Malabo, Equatorial Guinea | Cameroon | 2–0 | 0–3 | 2012 CAF Women's Pre-Olympic Tournament |
| 5 | 23 June 2012 | Estadio de Malabo, Malabo, Equatorial Guinea | DR Congo | 2–0 | 3–0 | Friendly |
| 6 | 31 October 2012 | Estadio de Malabo, Malabo, Equatorial Guinea | DR Congo | 6–0 | 6–0 | 2012 African Women's Championship |
| 7 | 3 November 2012 | Estadio de Malabo, Malabo, Equatorial Guinea | Senegal | 1–0 | 5–0 | 2012 African Women's Championship |
| 8 | 3 November 2012 | Estadio de Malabo, Malabo, Equatorial Guinea | Senegal | 2–0 | 5–0 | 2012 African Women's Championship |
| 9 | 7 June 2014 | Estadio de Malabo, Malabo, Equatorial Guinea | Ivory Coast | 1–0 | 2–2 | 2014 African Women's Championship qualification |
| 10 | 23 May 2015 | Stade de Kinkala, Kinkala, Republic of the Congo | Congo | 2–0 | 3–0 | 2015 CAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament |
| 11 | 23 May 2015 | Stade de Kinkala, Kinkala, Republic of the Congo | Congo | 3–0 | 3–0 | 2015 CAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament |
| 12 | 31 May 2015 | Estadio de Bata, Bata, Equatorial Guinea | Congo | 1–0 | 4–0 | 2015 CAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament |
| 13 | 31 May 2015 | Estadio de Bata, Bata, Equatorial Guinea | Congo | 2–0 | 4–0 | 2015 CAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament |
| 14 | 31 May 2015 | Estadio de Bata, Bata, Equatorial Guinea | Congo | 3–0 | 4–0 | 2015 CAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament |
| 15 | 10 April 2016 | Estadio de Malabo, Malabo, Equatorial Guinea | Mali | 1–0 | 2–1 | 2016 Africa Women Cup of Nations qualification |
| 16 | 26 November 2017 | Estadio de Malabo, Malabo, Equatorial Guinea | Comoros | 3–0 | 4–0 | Friendly |
| 17 | 26 November 2017 | Estadio de Malabo, Malabo, Equatorial Guinea | Comoros | 4–0 | 4–0 | Friendly |
| 18 | 6 June 2018 | Kenyatta Stadium, Machakos, Kenya | Kenya | 1–0 | 1–2 | 2018 Africa Women Cup of Nations qualification |

## Honours
### Club

* Rayo Vallecano
** Spanish Championship: 2008–09, 2009–10, 2010–11
** Copa de la Reina de Fútbol: 2008

### International

* Spain U-19
** UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship: 2004
* Equatorial Guinea
** African Women's Championship: 2012; runner-up: 2010

## Personal life

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