Lianne Sanderson

Lianne Sanderson
Sanderson in the national jersey (2014)
Personnel
Surname	Lianne Joan Sanderson
birthday	3rd February 1988
place of birth	Watford ,  England
size	168 cm
position	Storm
Juniors
Years	station
1997-2003	Arsenal LFC
Women
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2003-2008	Arsenal LFC
2008-2010	Chelsea ladies
2010-2011	Philadelphia Independence	40 0(8)
2011–2012	RCD Espanyol	23 0(8)
2012	DC United Women	7 0(6)
2013-2014	Boston Breakers	41 (10)
2013-2014	→  Apollon Limassol  (loan)
2014	→ Apollon Limassol (loan)
2015	Arsenal LFC	6 0(0)
2015-2016	Portland Thorns FC	5 0(0)
2015-2016	→ Apollon Limassol (loan)
2016	Orlando Pride	8 0(2)
2016	Western New York Flash	9 0(3)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals) 2
2006–	England	49 (15)
1 Only league games are given. Status: end of season 2016 2 As of July 4, 2015

Lianne Joan Sanderson (born February 3, 1988 in Watford ) is an English football player .

Club career

Sanderson joined Arsenal LFC in 1997 and played in the youth teams. In 2003 she played her first game in the first team and fought for a regular place. In the very first season she became English champion and cup winner. In the 2006 FA Women's Cup final, she scored the goal to make it 5-0 and was voted “Player of the Game”. In 2007 she and her team won the UEFA Women's Cup .

At the beginning of July 2008, she and her national team colleague Anita Asante moved from Arsenal LFC to Chelsea Ladies .

From the 2010 WPS season, Sanderson played for Philadelphia Independence in the United States. For this, she canceled participation in the FA Women's Super League, which will begin in 2011. On August 26, 2011, she returned to Europe and signed a two-year contract for the Superliga de fútbol femenino de España club Espanyol Barcelona . On May 12, 2012, she left Spain and returned to Washington, where she signed with the W-League club DC United Women . There she played in a team with Joanna Lohman who left Barcelona for Washington with her. In the 2013 season she played for the Boston Breakers in the newly founded NWSL before announcing her loan transfer to the Cypriot first division and Champions League participant Apollon Limassol in September 2013 . She returned to Boston for the 2014 season. After another loan to Limassol in autumn 2014, she switched back to Arsenal LFC for the 2015 season of FA WSL . Back in August 2015, Sanderson returned to the NWSL and joined Portland Thorns FC . After the end of the season, she moved again to Apollon Limassol until the beginning of 2016. Upon her return to the United States, Sanderson joined the league newcomer Orlando Pride . After eight appearances for Orlando, Sanderson moved on to the franchise of the Western New York Flash in June 2016 , with which she won the NWSL championship.

National team

After she had run through all youth national teams, she made her debut on May 3, 2006 in the European Championship qualifier against Hungary in the English national football team . The then 19-year-old scored her first international goal on May 13, 2007 against Northern Ireland.

With the national team, Sanderson took part in the 2007 Women's World Cup and the 2009 Women's European Football Championship . At the European Championship, Sanderson was runner-up with the team. On August 16, 2010, after disagreements with Hope Powell , she resigned from the national team and only returned in January 2014 under the new national coach Mark Sampson .

Football school

In December 2011 she and her then partner Joanna Lohman founded the JoLi Academy in India , a soccer school for girls from the slums of New Delhi and Mumbai .

successes

• UEFA Women's Cup : 2007
• English champion: 2004, 2005, 2006
• English Cup Winner: 2004, 2006
• English league cup winner: 2005
• Charity Shield Winner: 2005, 2006
• NWSL champion: 2016

Individual evidence

1. ^ Lianne Sanderson Profile . www.sportsnetwork.com. Archived from the original on June 4, 2011. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved August 4, 2010. 
2. ^ Lianne Sanderson cites Super League delay as reason for US move , The Guardian. January 24, 2010. Retrieved August 4, 2010. 
3. ↑ Refuerzos de lujo para el Espanyol Marca, 26 August 2011
4. ^ DC United Women to debut fourteen new players against Boston Breakers Saturday . Potomac Soccer Wire. May 12, 2012. Accessed on May 16, 2012.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ^ Former US and England Internationals Joanna Lohman and Lianne Sanderson sign with DC United Women . DC United Women. May 12, 2012. Accessed on May 16, 2012.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ^ Striker Lianne Sanderson to end England Women's career , BBC Sport. August 15, 2010. Retrieved August 16, 2010. 
7. ^ Katie Lynch: An interview with Women's Professional Soccer players Joanna Lohman and Lianne Sanderson , AfterEllen.com. November 29, 2011. Archived from the original on December 1, 2011. Retrieved on March 13, 2012. 
8. ^ Lianne Sanderson & Joanna Lohman (JoLi Academy) , She Kicks. December 14, 2011. Archived from the original on October 12, 2013 Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved March 13, 2012.  
9. ↑ JoLi Academy ( Memento of the original from June 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 

Web links

Commons : Lianne Sanderson  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Lianne Sanderson in the thefa.com database