Marinette Pichon

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Marinette Pichon (born November 26, 1975 in Bar-sur-Aube ) is a French football player .

The club career

The striker had been playing football for the ASS from Brienne-le-Château since she was six, before moving to Châlons-en-Champagne at the age of 16 to Olympique Saint-Memmie , a club that was heavily involved with her from the mid-1990s had its most successful time, and quickly became a regular in its first team. Here, as soon afterwards in the national team, she scored goals as if on an assembly line; At only 1.63 m tall and 55 kg fighting weight, she benefited from her agility, quick reactions and good shooting ability. In 2002 the US club Philadelphia Charge offered her a contract for the women's professional league WUSA , for which she played from then on. After the WUSA had to cease playing in the late autumn of 2003, they briefly returned to France to Saint-Memmie, before they laced their football boots again in the United States at the end of this season, this time for the New Jersey Wildcats . Since the 2004/05 season she has been scoring her goals again in front of her home crowd: she competed for Juvisy FCF in Division 1 Féminine , with which she won the national cup (Challenge de France) in 2005 and the championship (Championnat de France de football féminin) in 2006 won.

Marinette Pichon has also won the title of top scorer in the top French league four times (2001, 2002, 2005, 2006); also in her year in the US professional league (2003) she scored the most hits. In 2001 she was also awarded the "Oscar" for French Footballer of the Year. In 2007 she ended her career. Three years later , Pichon came out of her homosexuality .

Stations

  • Association Sportive Briennoise (until 1992, as a youth)
  • Saint-Memmie Olympique (1992-2002)
  • Philadelphia Charge (2002 - November 2003)
  • Saint-Memmie Olympique (2004)
  • New Jersey Wildcats (Summer 2004)
  • Juvisy FCF (2004-2007)

The national player

Since March 1994 Marinette Pichon has also stormed for the Équipe tricolore féminin . She has made 112 international matches in which she scored 81 goals, making her the most successful goalscorer in the French women's A-team. She had not played a single international match between May 1999 and April 2001.
She took part in all international championship finals for which the French could qualify during Pichon's playing time: three European ( 1997 , 2001 , 2005 ) and one world championship ( 2003 ). However, she was unable to win a title. After the failure of Bleues in the qualification for the 2007 World Cup in China in September 2006, she announced her departure from the national team.

Palmarès

Life after their playing time

From 2013 to 2016 she held the position of general director at her ex-club Juvisy. She then took a job at My Coach Football , a start-up that developed an app for football coaches.

In spring 2018, her autobiography was published in book form under the title Ne jamais rien lâcher (“Never let up”). In it she describes - according to an advance notice - "her path as a soccer player, but especially as a woman".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ France Football of January 14, 2014, p. 11
  2. ↑ See the article "Juvisy grows for next season" of 14 June 2013 in vavel.com and the Organization in 2015 ( Memento of December 27, 2014 Internet Archive ) on the club side Juvisys.
  3. ↑ See the interview with Pichon  ( 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. from December 17, 2016 at footofeminin.fr.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.footofeminin.fr  
  4. ↑ "Marinette Pichon publishes her autobiography. A report that goes beyond football. ” From April 3, 2018 at footofeminin.fr
personal data
SURNAME Pichon, Marinette
BRIEF DESCRIPTION french soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH November 26, 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Bar-sur-Aube , Aube department , France