Merel van Dongen Football player

Merel van Dongen (born 11 February 1993) is a Dutch football attacking midfielder, who plays college football in the United States for Alabama Crimson Tide and represents the Netherlands women's national football team. As a junior international she played the 2010 and 2011 U-19 European Championships.Van Dongen made her senior Netherlands women's national football team debut in a 3–0 friendly win over Northern Ireland in Velsen-Zuid on 3 July 2013. She was one of the last three players to be cut from national team coach Roger Reijners' final squad for UEFA Women's Euro 2013 in Sweden. When Mandy van den Berg subsequently suffered knee ligament damage, Van Dongen was called up as a late replacement.