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Rosemary “Rosie” Eleanor Florence White (born June 6, 1993 in Auckland, New Zealand) is a New Zealand footballer. The offensive player has been part of the New Zealand national team since 2009.

Career

Clubs
White played in her home country for the teams of Three Kings United, Lynn-Avon United and the Western Springs AFC. She also played for UCLA Bruins during her studies from 2011 to 2014. In 2015 she moved to reigning English champion FC Liverpool, who could not repeat the success in the 2015 season but narrowly escaped the relegation. In the UEFA Women’s Champions League 2015/16 she failed with Liverpool in the sixteenth final by two 0-1 defeats to the Italian vice-champion ACF Brescia, where she was used in both games. After another season at Liverpool, White moved to the Boston Breakers before the 2017 season, following her former Liverpool coach, Matt Beard. After a year, we moved on to the Chicago Red Stars, as in January 2018 the Boston Breakers team was withdrawn from the game for financial reasons.

National team
White scored a hat-trick at the U-17 Women’s World Cup 2008 against Colombia and two weeks later at the U-20 Women’s World Cup 2008 against Chile. At the 2010 U-20 Women’s World Cup, she played in all three group games and scored a goal against Brazil. In 2010, she received the Golden Shoe, as she scored nine goals in three games at the U-20 Women's Football Ocean Championship, with five goals alone in the 11-0 against Tonga. Two years later, with eight goals, she again became the best scorer of the U-20 Oceania Championship.

Already during her time as a junior national player she was nominated for the A-national team. On 10 January 2009 she played for the first time in the New Zealand national team shirt. At the age of 15, she was the youngest player ever active in the national team. She scored her first national team goal at the 2010 Oceania Championship against Vanuatu. Ten days later, on the 8th. In October 2010, you score four goals in the 11-0 final against Papua New Guinea. With a total of six goals, she was the fourth best scorer in the championship and was only surpassed by three players. Four years later, she scored only three goals, but was awarded as the best player of the Women's Football Ocean Championship 2014. She participated with New Zealand in the World Cup 2011, where she was used in two games, the Olympic Games 2012 (3 bets) and the World Cup 2015 (2 substitutions), but always without goal success. In July 2016, she was included in the squad for the 2016 Olympic Games. At the Olympic tournament she was replaced in two of the three group games, after which the New Zealanders as the worst group third