Hali Long
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 Long with the Philippines in 2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Hali Moriah Candido Long[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Birth name | Hali Moriah Long[2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | January 21, 1995 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Cape Girardeau, Missouri, U.S. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)[3] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Position | Center-back | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Current team | College of Asian Scholars | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Number | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lou Fusz-Wipke | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| College career | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2013–2016 | Little Rock Trojans | 71 | (1) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2019–2025 | Kaya–Iloilo | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2025 | → College of Asian Scholars | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2026– | College of Asian Scholars | 6 | (2) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| International career‡ | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2016– | Philippines | 106 | (22) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of April 26, 2026 ‡ National team caps and goals as of March 19, 2026 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Hali Moriah Candido Long (born January 21, 1995) is a professional women's footballer who plays as a center-back for Thai Women's League 1 club College of Asian Scholars. Born in the United States, she captains the Philippines women's national team.
Hali Long was born in Cape Girardeau, Missouri,[4] to Lilie Candido and David Long.[5] She studied at Francis Howell North High School in St. Charles, lettering in all four years in her secondary education and at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. She was named to the Sun Belt Conference Commissioner's List for maintaining a GPA (grade point average) of 3.0 or better for the 2013–14 and 2014–15 school years.[6]
Career
Youth and college
Long played for the under-18 team of Lou Fusz-Wipke, helping the youth club win three state championships. She played for the Little Rock Trojans women's soccer team from 2013 to 2016. She made her first career assist in 2014 against Southern and her first career goal in 2016 against Memphis.[6] In 2015 she played the most minutes among players of the Little Rock Trojans women's soccer team. She also started every game, one of only three players on that year's roster to do so.[7][8]
Club career
Long plays for Kaya–Iloilo in the PFF Women's League. She played with them in the 2022 PFF Women's Cup where her side finished third.[9] She also won two league titles with Kaya, in the 2023 and 2025 seasons.[10][11]
Long was loaned to Thai side BGC–College of Asian Scholars for the preliminary round of the 2025–26 AFC Women's Champions League.[12][13]
International
Long was born in the United States to an American father and Filipino mother. In June 2016, Long joined a training camp by the Philippine national team. She was then selected to be part of the Philippine squad to participate at the 2016 AFF Women's Championship in Myanmar.[7] This was the first time that a Trojans player competed on a senior national team.[14] She also played at the 2018 AFC Women's Asian Cup qualifiers in April 2017 scoring a hat-trick in the match against Tajikistan.[15] The team managed to secure qualification for the final tournament in Jordan.
She was also part of the Philippine roster for the 2017 Southeast Asian Games[1] and the 2018,[16] and 2022 AFC Women's Asian Cup.[17]
Long continued to play for the Philippines in the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup, where she was a starting center back.[5]
Long is part of the Philippine squad for the 2025 SEA Games in Thailand. The semifinal match against the host marked Long's 100th cap for the national team. The Philippines drew Thailand 1–1 in extra time but the former advanced to its first ever SEA Games women's football final after prevailing in the penalty shootouts.[18]
