Eugénie Le Sommer

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Eugénie Le Sommer

Eugénie Anne Claudine Le Sommer (born May 18, 1989 in Grasse ) is a French football player . The striker has been under contract with Olympique Lyon since summer 2010 and plays for the French national team .

Club career

Eugénie Le Sommer stayed only a few years in the region where she was born on the Côte d'Azur because her father, a police officer born in Brittany , was transferred several times. Since she was eight, she played for FC Trélissac , after moving again from the Dordogne to Brittany in 1998 for AS Guermeur Lomener from Ploemeur . In 2004 she moved to FC Lorient . From 2007 to 2010 she played for Stade Saint-Brieuc in Division 1 ; at the Briochins she won the league's top scorer's crown in her last season there . However, she was only able to win national and international championship titles after moving to Lyon: in 2011 the French championship and the Champions League , both titles again in 2012 , plus the French Cup in the same year . In 2013, 2014 and 2015 further national championship and national cup titles followed. In 2016, 2017, 2019 and 2020 she won the championship, the national and the European cup. She is one of only three players to have won the Champions League seven times.

In addition, Eugénie Le Sommer was recognized by the FFF as the best female player of the 2009/10 season and six months later by the players' union with a UNFP trophy for best female player of 2010. In 2015, FIFA included her in its pre-selection of ten female players, from which the world footballer will be selected at the end of the year and awarded the Ballon d'Or.

National player

With the French U-19 selection, she took part in the European Championship in 2006 and 2007 and reached the final in 2006. In 2008 she reached fourth place at the World Cup with the U-20 selection .

On February 12, 2009 Le Sommer made his debut in a game against Ireland in the French senior team. She took part in the European Championship in 2009, was also in the French squad for the 2011 World Cup , played all six games in Germany and finished the tournament with the Bleues in fourth place. She was still part of the French Olympic squad in 2012 and played five Bleues games at this tournament , but only one in the starting lineup. National coach Bruno Bini also called them to the 2013 EM squad and used them in all four matches in Sweden. UEFA then selected Le Sommer to join the tournament's all-star team . Bini's successor Philippe Bergeroo also regularly takes Eugénie Le Sommer into account; while under Bergeroo she ousted Marie-Laure Delie in the storm top. She was accepted into the international club of 100 at the beginning of March 2015 on the occasion of a 4-1 win against Denmark at the 2015 Algarve Cup , to which she contributed a goal herself. In addition, she was recognized as the best player at this tournament.

The attack leader was also on the squad for the 2015 World Cup , where France reached the quarter-finals. Le Sommer started all five games and scored three goals. She was also in the French squad for the 2016 Olympic soccer tournament , in 2017 in France's European championship squad and in 2019 in the 23 squad for the World Cup in her own country .

In her 170 international matches so far, Eugénie Le Sommer has scored 80 goals (as of March 10, 2020), making her one of the world's most successful attackers ; she is also France's second best goalscorer of all time behind Marinette Pichon .

Other functions

In October 2018, Eugénie Le Sommer was the first woman ever to be elected to the governing body of the French professional footballers union UNFP .

Palmarès

Web links

Commons : Eugénie Le Sommer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Evidence and Notes

  1. ↑ Le Sommer at www.uefa.com
  2. ↑ after the article " When Eugénie Le Sommers dad did not let himself be thrown out of the stadium " from July 31, 2012 at footdelles.com
  3. ↑ see the article "Eugénie Le Sommer, back on familiar ground" from February 7, 2015 at footofeminin.fr
  4. ↑ according to the article “ Henry and Le Sommer preselected, Prêcheur and Benstiti with the trainers ” from October 19, 2015 at footofeminin.fr
  5. ↑ see the article "EUA vencem o torneio" ( Memento from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) from March 11, 2015 on the website of the Portuguese association
  6. ↑ Article “ Eugénie Le Sommer as the first woman elected to the UNFP Steering Committee ” from October 13, 2018 at footofeminin.fr
  7. ↑ fr-online.de: "Anja Mittag and Celia Sasic in the 2015 soccer world selection"
personal data
SURNAME Le Sommer, Eugénie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Le Sommer, Eugénie Anne Claudine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION french soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH Grasse