Melchie Dumornay

About

Melchie Daëlle Dumornay (born 17 August 2003), also known as Corventina, is a Haitian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder or forward for Première Ligue club Lyon and the Haiti national team.
In an article posted on the official Olympics website, Dumornay is referred to as “an anomaly” and “one of the best football players on the planet”.

Dumornay was born in Mirebalais, where she was raised by a single mother together with her three brothers and two cousins. Shortly after she started playing football with older boys in the commune’s streets, she joined her first women’s football club, AS Mirebalais. Having been impressed by Dumornay’s talent, the club’s coach, Jean-Claude Josaphat, brought her to Camp Nous, the federation-owned training center for all of the Haitian youth national teams, when she was only 10 years old.
A few years later, Dumornay joined fellow Haitian club AS Tigresses, where she came through the youth ranks. In the final of the 2018 Haitian Women’s Soccer Championship, she scored all of the five goals that helped Tigresses gain a 5–2 win over Anacaona SC and win the national title. Having scored 25 goals…