Showing posts with label soccer player. Show all posts
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Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Alex Morgan
Alexandra Patricia "Alex" Morgan (born July 2, 1989) is an American soccer player from Diamond Bar, California. She is a forward for the Western New York Flash of Women's Professional Soccer and member of the US Women's National Team. Morgan was the youngest player on the USA's roster at the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup.
The youngest player on the team has been compared to Mia Hamm for her speed and nose for the goal. And what a cute lil’ nose it is. As a freshman at Cal in 2007, she was the leading scorer for the Golden Bears with 8 goals. Her first appearance with the US Team came in a match versus Mexico in March 2010. She scored her first international goal against China in October 2010. Her game-winning goal against Italy in November’s Women’s World Cup Playoff is considered one of the most important in recent US history.
Personal information
Full name : Alexandra Patricia Morgan
Date of birth : July 2, 1989
Place of birth : Diamond Bar, California, United States
Height : 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)
Playing position : Forward
The youngest player on the team has been compared to Mia Hamm for her speed and nose for the goal. And what a cute lil’ nose it is. As a freshman at Cal in 2007, she was the leading scorer for the Golden Bears with 8 goals. Her first appearance with the US Team came in a match versus Mexico in March 2010. She scored her first international goal against China in October 2010. Her game-winning goal against Italy in November’s Women’s World Cup Playoff is considered one of the most important in recent US history.
Personal information
Full name : Alexandra Patricia Morgan
Date of birth : July 2, 1989
Place of birth : Diamond Bar, California, United States
Height : 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)
Playing position : Forward
Érika Cristiano dos Santos (Erika)
Érika Cristiano dos Santos (born 4 February 1988 in São Paulo), commonly known as Érika, is a Brazilian footballer who plays as a defender for Santos and the Brazilian Women's National Team.
Before being drafted by FC Gold Pride in the 2008 WPS International Draft, Érika was a member of Santos FC. Despite appearing in 7 games for FC Gold Pride, Érika was deemed surplus to requirements at season's close by Albertin Montoya.[1]
Érika has represented Brazil at both the U-20 and senior international levels.
Personal information
Full name : Érika Cristiano dos Santos
Date of birth : 4 February 1988
Place of birth : São Paulo, Brazil
Height : 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)
Playing position : Defender
Before being drafted by FC Gold Pride in the 2008 WPS International Draft, Érika was a member of Santos FC. Despite appearing in 7 games for FC Gold Pride, Érika was deemed surplus to requirements at season's close by Albertin Montoya.[1]
Érika has represented Brazil at both the U-20 and senior international levels.
Personal information
Full name : Érika Cristiano dos Santos
Date of birth : 4 February 1988
Place of birth : São Paulo, Brazil
Height : 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)
Playing position : Defender
Heather Mitts
Heather Blaine Mitts Feeley (born June 9, 1978) is an American professional soccer player who is a defender in the Women's Professional Soccer (WPS) league. Mitts played college soccer for the University of Florida, and thereafter, she has played professionally for the Philadelphia Charge, Boston Breakers, Philadelphia Independence and Atlanta Beat of WPS. She is also a member of the United States women's national soccer team, and is a two-time Olympic gold medalist.
Mitts is a two-time Olympic gold-medalist as a member of the U.S. National Women's team in the 2004 and 2008 Summer Olympics, and has represented the United States in over 100 international matches. She was also a member of the U.S. national team who finished second in the 2006 Algarve Cup.
On May 12, 2007, Mitts tore her ACL in an international friendly match with Canada. The injury put Mitts out of contention for the 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup.
On May 9, 2011, Mitts was named to the U.S. roster for the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup tournament in Germany.
Personal information
Full name : Heather Blaine Mitts Feeley
Date of birth : June 9, 1978
Place of birth : Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
Height : 5 ft 5 in (1.65 m)
Playing position : Defender
Club information
Current club : Atlanta Beat
Number: 2
Mitts is a two-time Olympic gold-medalist as a member of the U.S. National Women's team in the 2004 and 2008 Summer Olympics, and has represented the United States in over 100 international matches. She was also a member of the U.S. national team who finished second in the 2006 Algarve Cup.
On May 12, 2007, Mitts tore her ACL in an international friendly match with Canada. The injury put Mitts out of contention for the 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup.
On May 9, 2011, Mitts was named to the U.S. roster for the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup tournament in Germany.
Personal information
Full name : Heather Blaine Mitts Feeley
Date of birth : June 9, 1978
Place of birth : Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
Height : 5 ft 5 in (1.65 m)
Playing position : Defender
Club information
Current club : Atlanta Beat
Number: 2
Louisa Necib
Louisa Necib (born 23 January 1987) is a French football player of Algerian descent who plays for French club Olympique Lyonnais of the Division 1 Féminine. She plays as an attacking midfielder and described as a "gifted playmaker" who "possesses superb technique". Necib has been labeled by the French media as the female Zinedine Zidane, primarily due to having an Algerian background, growing up in Marseille like Zidane, and having immense skill. She is a French women's international having made her debut with the team in February 2005 in a match against Norway.
Necib made her international debut for France on 19 February 2005 in a friendly match against Norway. After going two years without scoring, on 11 April 2007, she scored her first international goal in a 6–0 victory over Greece in qualification of UEFA Women's Euro 2009. Necib later scored another qualification goal in a 8–0 win over Serbia. In qualification for the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup, she scored two goals; one in a 12–0 win over Estonia and another in a 6–0 victory against Northern Ireland as France qualified for its second FIFA Women's World Cup. On 19 November 2010, Necib scored her first international double in a 5–0 win over Poland. On 26 June 2011, in France's opening World Cup group stage match against Nigeria, Necib, on her competition's debut, was named the Player of the Match for her performance in the team's 1–0 victory.
Personal information
Full name : Louisa Necib
Date of birth : 23 January 1987
Place of birth : Marseille, France
Height : 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m)
Playing position : Midfielder
Club information
Current club : Lyon
Number: 10
Necib made her international debut for France on 19 February 2005 in a friendly match against Norway. After going two years without scoring, on 11 April 2007, she scored her first international goal in a 6–0 victory over Greece in qualification of UEFA Women's Euro 2009. Necib later scored another qualification goal in a 8–0 win over Serbia. In qualification for the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup, she scored two goals; one in a 12–0 win over Estonia and another in a 6–0 victory against Northern Ireland as France qualified for its second FIFA Women's World Cup. On 19 November 2010, Necib scored her first international double in a 5–0 win over Poland. On 26 June 2011, in France's opening World Cup group stage match against Nigeria, Necib, on her competition's debut, was named the Player of the Match for her performance in the team's 1–0 victory.
Personal information
Full name : Louisa Necib
Date of birth : 23 January 1987
Place of birth : Marseille, France
Height : 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m)
Playing position : Midfielder
Club information
Current club : Lyon
Number: 10
Homare Sawa
Homare Sawa ( born September 6, 1978 in Fuchū, Tokyo) is a female football player from Japan. She currently plays for INAC Kobe Leonessa in the Nadeshiko League Division 1.
Long considered Japan's finest female footballer, she made her debut in Japan's highest domestic league at age 12. On December 6, 1993, at age 15, she made her Japanese international debut, scoring four goals in her first ever match, a win against the Philippines. She has subsequently remained a fixture for the Japanese national team, participating in the last five FIFA Women's World Cups and the 1996, 2004 and 2008 Summer Olympic Games on her way to a Japanese record 171 caps, and a Japanese female-best 79 international goals, including a hat trick in a 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup group stage match against Mexico. Sawa led the Japanese national team as captain to a World Championship victory and received the Golden Boot and Golden Ball awards as the top scorer (5 goals during the 2011 World Cup) and MVP in the tournament. After a 2-2 tie in front of a sellout crowd in Frankfurt Germany (with 1 goal by Sawa in the 117th minute), Japan won the penalty shootout 3-1, defeating the United States to win their first ever World Cup.
Personal information
Full name : Homare Sawa
Date of birth : September 6, 1978
Place of birth: Tokyo, Japan
Height: 1.64 m (5 ft 5 in)
Playing position : Midfielder
Club information
Current club : INAC Kobe Leonessa
Number : 10
Long considered Japan's finest female footballer, she made her debut in Japan's highest domestic league at age 12. On December 6, 1993, at age 15, she made her Japanese international debut, scoring four goals in her first ever match, a win against the Philippines. She has subsequently remained a fixture for the Japanese national team, participating in the last five FIFA Women's World Cups and the 1996, 2004 and 2008 Summer Olympic Games on her way to a Japanese record 171 caps, and a Japanese female-best 79 international goals, including a hat trick in a 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup group stage match against Mexico. Sawa led the Japanese national team as captain to a World Championship victory and received the Golden Boot and Golden Ball awards as the top scorer (5 goals during the 2011 World Cup) and MVP in the tournament. After a 2-2 tie in front of a sellout crowd in Frankfurt Germany (with 1 goal by Sawa in the 117th minute), Japan won the penalty shootout 3-1, defeating the United States to win their first ever World Cup.
Personal information
Full name : Homare Sawa
Date of birth : September 6, 1978
Place of birth: Tokyo, Japan
Height: 1.64 m (5 ft 5 in)
Playing position : Midfielder
Club information
Current club : INAC Kobe Leonessa
Number : 10
Shannon Boxx
Shannon Boxx (born June 29, 1977, in Fontana, California) is an American soccer midfielder currently playing for magicJack of Women's Professional Soccer and is a member of the United States women's national soccer team. She won the Gold Medal with the United States at the 2004 Summer Olympics, and played for the US at the 2003 and 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup. She was a finalist for the 2005 FIFA World Player of the Year award, and won an NCAA Women's Soccer Championship with Notre Dame in 1995.
In 2005, Boxx started all nine matches US national team matches, playing all but 23 minutes of all matches played. She was a finalist for the 2005 FIFA World Player of the Year, coming in third behind Birgit Prinz and Marta.
Boxx missed most of 2006, first for surgery to repair torn cartilage in her right hip, and then for torn medial collateral ligaments she suffered on her first day back in training with the national team. She returned in 2007 after an eight-month layoff, and was named to the United States' squad for the 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup. Boxx helped the team reach the semifinal match against Brazil, but she was sent off after receiving two yellow cards, and the United States went on to lose 4-0. Boxx played every minute of all five U.S. games in the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
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Full name : Shannon Leigh Boxx
Date of birth: June 29, 1977
Place of birth : Fontana, California, United States
Height : 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)
Playing position : Midfielder
Club information
Current club: magicJack
Number : 7
In 2005, Boxx started all nine matches US national team matches, playing all but 23 minutes of all matches played. She was a finalist for the 2005 FIFA World Player of the Year, coming in third behind Birgit Prinz and Marta.
Boxx missed most of 2006, first for surgery to repair torn cartilage in her right hip, and then for torn medial collateral ligaments she suffered on her first day back in training with the national team. She returned in 2007 after an eight-month layoff, and was named to the United States' squad for the 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup. Boxx helped the team reach the semifinal match against Brazil, but she was sent off after receiving two yellow cards, and the United States went on to lose 4-0. Boxx played every minute of all five U.S. games in the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
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Full name : Shannon Leigh Boxx
Date of birth: June 29, 1977
Place of birth : Fontana, California, United States
Height : 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)
Playing position : Midfielder
Club information
Current club: magicJack
Number : 7
Inka Grings
Inka Grings (born 31 October 1978) is a German footballer. She plays as a striker for FCR 2001 Duisburg and the German national team. Grings is the all-time leading goalscorer in Germany's top division, the Bundesliga, having claimed the league's top-scorer award for a record six seasons. Playing for Germany, she has also been the top-scorer at two UEFA European Championships. Grings was named German Female Footballer of the Year in 1999, 2009 and 2010.
Grings has scored 64 international goals and is ranked third behind Birgit Prinz (128) and Heidi Mohr (83) for Germany's all-time top goalscorers. During 93 appearances, she has averaged 0.69 goals per games, which makes her the team's second most prolific scorer.
Personal information
Full name : Inka Grings
Date of birth : 31 October 1978
Place of birth: Düsseldorf, West Germany
Height: 1.69 m (5 ft 6 1⁄2 in)
Playing position : Striker
Club information
Current club : FCR 2001 Duisburg
Number : 9
Grings has scored 64 international goals and is ranked third behind Birgit Prinz (128) and Heidi Mohr (83) for Germany's all-time top goalscorers. During 93 appearances, she has averaged 0.69 goals per games, which makes her the team's second most prolific scorer.
Personal information
Full name : Inka Grings
Date of birth : 31 October 1978
Place of birth: Düsseldorf, West Germany
Height: 1.69 m (5 ft 6 1⁄2 in)
Playing position : Striker
Club information
Current club : FCR 2001 Duisburg
Number : 9
Abby Wambach
Mary Abigail "Abby" Wambach (born June 2, 1980) is an American female professional soccer player and Olympic gold medalist. A four-time winner of the U.S. Soccer Athlete of the Year award, she has been a regular on the U.S. women's national team since 2003, and is the highest scorer for the U.S. national team with over 120 goals in international play.
On May 9, 2011, the U.S. roster for the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup tournament in Germany was announced, including Wambach. The 2011 Women's World Cup tournament is the third in which she has played. After playing without scoring a goal in the USA's first two group stage matches against North Korea and Colombia, Wambach opened her tournament scoring in a 2-1 loss to Sweden in Team USA's final group stage match. Having lost to Sweden, the USA WNT finished second in their group and went on to face Group D first-place finishers Brazil. On July 10, 2011, during the USA Women's National team's quarterfinal game against Brazil, Wambach scored a 'header' goal in stoppage time after the 120th minute (120th+2 minute injury time) to equalize 2-2 against the Brazilians; Team USA went on to win the game on penalty kicks and advanced to the semi-finals. In all World Cup matches – men's or women's – her goal stands as the latest ever scored. Her last minute goal was awarded ESPN's 2011 ESPY Award for Best Play of the Year. Wambach scored her third goal for USA in Team USA's semi-final 3–1 win over France.
In the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup Final against underdogs Japan, Wambach's trademark 'header' goal, her fourth in the tournament, in the first half of extra-time made her the American FIFA Women's World Cup all-time scoring leader with 13 goals, second to Brazil's Marta and Germany's Birgit Prinz (14 all-time goals each). Team USA was forced to a penalty shootout after a late equalizer by Japan. In the PSO, Japan won 3-1, with Wambach converting the fourth and only penalty. Wambach's final goal tally for the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup was 4 goals and 1 assist, an effort that earned her the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup Bronze Boot after Brazil's Marta (4 goals, 2 assists, Silver Boot) and Japan's Homare Sawa (5 goals, 1 assist, Golden Boot). Interestingly, all 4 of Wambach's goals in the tournament were scored using her head. For her efforts on and off the pitch towards the USA women's national team, Wambach was awarded the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup Silver Ball to go alongside her Silver Medal and Bronze Boot.
Personal information
Full name : Mary Abigail Wambach
Date of birth : June 2, 1980
Place of birth : Rochester, New York, United States
Height :5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Playing position : Forward
Club information
Current club : magicJack
Number: 20
On May 9, 2011, the U.S. roster for the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup tournament in Germany was announced, including Wambach. The 2011 Women's World Cup tournament is the third in which she has played. After playing without scoring a goal in the USA's first two group stage matches against North Korea and Colombia, Wambach opened her tournament scoring in a 2-1 loss to Sweden in Team USA's final group stage match. Having lost to Sweden, the USA WNT finished second in their group and went on to face Group D first-place finishers Brazil. On July 10, 2011, during the USA Women's National team's quarterfinal game against Brazil, Wambach scored a 'header' goal in stoppage time after the 120th minute (120th+2 minute injury time) to equalize 2-2 against the Brazilians; Team USA went on to win the game on penalty kicks and advanced to the semi-finals. In all World Cup matches – men's or women's – her goal stands as the latest ever scored. Her last minute goal was awarded ESPN's 2011 ESPY Award for Best Play of the Year. Wambach scored her third goal for USA in Team USA's semi-final 3–1 win over France.
In the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup Final against underdogs Japan, Wambach's trademark 'header' goal, her fourth in the tournament, in the first half of extra-time made her the American FIFA Women's World Cup all-time scoring leader with 13 goals, second to Brazil's Marta and Germany's Birgit Prinz (14 all-time goals each). Team USA was forced to a penalty shootout after a late equalizer by Japan. In the PSO, Japan won 3-1, with Wambach converting the fourth and only penalty. Wambach's final goal tally for the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup was 4 goals and 1 assist, an effort that earned her the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup Bronze Boot after Brazil's Marta (4 goals, 2 assists, Silver Boot) and Japan's Homare Sawa (5 goals, 1 assist, Golden Boot). Interestingly, all 4 of Wambach's goals in the tournament were scored using her head. For her efforts on and off the pitch towards the USA women's national team, Wambach was awarded the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup Silver Ball to go alongside her Silver Medal and Bronze Boot.
Personal information
Full name : Mary Abigail Wambach
Date of birth : June 2, 1980
Place of birth : Rochester, New York, United States
Height :5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Playing position : Forward
Club information
Current club : magicJack
Number: 20
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