Shirley Cruz Traña
Shirley Iveth Cruz Traña (born August 28, 1985 in San José ), occasionally also spelled Trana , is a Costa Rican soccer player who has completed most of her club career in the French league . The midfielder returned to Alajuela in October 2019 , where she had played before as a young woman; In 2020, however, she moved to OL Reign in the US Women's League NWSL .
Club career
Shirley Cruz Traña comes from a middle-class family and came to play soccer through her older brothers. At the age of twelve she joined a club from San Pedro de Poás , only two years later she was already playing with the women's team of AD Goicoechea in the highest league in Costa Rica. In 2000 she moved to CS Desamparados , from there to UCEM Alajuela in 2002 , with whom she won three national championship titles and where she was also a national player (see below) , and in 2004 to Deportivo Saprissa . During this time she began, who had never had the goal of becoming a professional footballer at the time, but pursued her sport "for fun and to earn pocket money", an apprenticeship as a physiotherapist . This they had to cancel the end of 2005, because in the winter break 2005/06 took Olympique Lyon them to France.
In terms of sport, the Costa Rican had hardly any acclimatization problems at Olympique - even though she expected to return soon when she left Central America - and played seven league games in Division 1 Féminine under coach Farid Benstiti , in which she also scored three goals. As a result, the right-footed midfielder "quickly established herself as an essential element in Lyon's midfield"; Others were responsible for spectacular play, but the "tireless ball hauler, technically skilled and persevering" was one of the pillars of Lyon's rise and the subsequent permanent dominance in the French league, which brought the club an uninterrupted series of championship titles from 2007 onwards . Shirley Cruz Traña was spared serious injuries and played a total of 115 point games until 2012, plus 19 matches in the national and 37 in the European Cup for Olympique. Spread across these three competitions, she also scored 37 goals. She achieved a particularly important achievement in the 2008 French Cup final , when she broke the spell in a hitherto very close match against Paris Saint-Germain in the second half and gave Lyon a 1-0 lead.
In summer 2012 - she had just won all three national and international titles (championship, cup and Champions League ), a “historic triplé ” with Olympique - OL did not renew her contract because the club “preferred to use Élise Bussaglia [for to commit this position] ”. The background was apparently that Cruz did not agree with Lyon's reduced offer, as she told La Nación during a stay at home : “[Lyon] reduced my salaries last year and they now want to reduce them again, despite all our successes ". As a result, Paris Saint-Germain FC, who was coached by their “discoverer” Farid Benstiti, seized the services of the midfielder, who was also “hoping to have more playful freedom than before” from this move.
Even at her new club there were practically no conversion problems: After her first season at PSG , Shirley Cruz Traña was together with Amandine Henry and Lotta Schelin (both from Lyon) in the final selection for the UNFP trophy as the best player of the season , which then went to Schelin went. For this, the Costa Rican was recognized by the French FFF as the best player in the first division this season 2012/13. The fact that she was in the pre-selection of the UNFP again in 2015 - this time together with Lyons Eugénie Le Sommer and again Lotta Schelin - underlines her importance in the French league. In the 2014/15 season she also reached a Champions League final with PSG , but lost 2-1 to 1. FFC Frankfurt . In January, she broke her contract with the capital club six months before it expired and signed a new one with Jiangsu Suning , a first division club from Nanjing , where the French Gérard Prêcheur was her trainer. With this club she became runner-up and association cup winner in 2018 .
In autumn 2019 she returned to her home country and joined the Alajuelense Fútbol Femenino - a syndicate of CODEA and LD Alajuelense - where she will also take on a leadership role in club management. In December she and her teammates won the championship in the Primera División Femenina de Costa Rica . After the game was stopped there in the spring of 2020 due to the corona pandemic , she joined OL Reign from Seattle , whose squad also includes Megan Rapinoe .
Stations
- San Pedro de Poás (1997–1999)
- AD Goicoechea (1999/2000)
- CS Desamparados (2000-2002)
- UCEM Alajuela (2002-2004)
- Deportivo Saprissa (2004 – December 2005)
- Olympique Lyon (January 2006–2012)
- Paris Saint-Germain FC (2012 – January 2018)
- Jiangsu Suning FC (January 2018-2019)
- Alajuelense FF (autumn 2019-March 2020)
- OL Reign (from March 2020)
In the national team
After Shirley Cruz Traña had already played for the U-19 and U-20 of Costa Rica, she joined Costa Rica's A women team for the first time in late autumn 2002 at the CONCACAF Women's Gold Cup in the United States and Canada, at the age of just 17 used and played there all five encounters. Costa Rica finished this tournament in fourth place after significant defeats against Canada , the USA and Mexico .
From 2004 to 2006 Cruz Traña did without international appearances, but returned to the national team in 2006 in qualifying for the 2007 women's soccer world championship . But she and her teammates already failed in the group games at Panama and Guatemala . She was also unable to qualify for the 2012 Olympic football tournament. By the end of 2011, she had made a total of 29 full internationals, in which she scored 18 goals; In 2012 and 2013 another 13 games with nine goals were added. For the U-17 Women's World Cup , which took place in their home country in 2014, FIFA appointed Shirley Cruz Traña as the “tournament ambassador”.
In autumn 2014, she played the Gold Cup with Costa Rica in the United States , in which her team reached the final against the hosts and qualified for the 2015 World Cup. Used in four of the five games - against Martinique , she was allowed to pause - she scored a goal in a 2-1 win over Jamaica . Cruz Traña had already left for her home team preparation so early that she missed the Champions League second leg against Twente Enschede ; she had also not yet received approval from her association. Shortly before the Gold Cup final, she justified this with the words:
“I didn't think about the financial implications. All I wanted was to support my teammates and make my dream [of Costa Rica's first World Cup participation] come true. "
In 2015 she took part in the World Cup finals in Canada with the Costa Rican squad and was on the field in all three Costa Rican matches over the full season; the last game of the preliminary round against Brazil was her 63rd full international match, in which she scored 21 goals. However, the Central Americans had to return early after two draws and one defeat in third place.
In the following years, Cruz still the national team was a member of, for example, was in the summer of 2018 in a friendship meeting in Chile Costa Rican captain, wearing the armband even in January and February 2020 the CONCACAF qualifying tournament for the Summer Olympic Games in Japan in which the Central Americans failed in the semifinals 1-0 to Canada. The exact numbers for their official internationals cannot be determined with absolute certainty; So far there have been at least 97 missions and at least 29 hits. (As of February 8, 2020)
Palmarès
- French champion: 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 (and runner-up 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016)
- French cup winner: 2008, 2012
- European Cup winner: 2011, 2012 (and finalist 2010, 2015)
- Costa Rica Championship: 2002, 2003, 2004, 2019
- Chinese Association Cup: 2018
- Winner of the Challenge de la meilleure joueuse as the best first division player of the 2012/13 season
Web links
- Cruz Trañas datasheet at footofeminin.fr
Notes and evidence
- ↑ for example in your data sheet at kicker.de
- ↑ a b c d see the article “A lioness in Paris” from Le Parisien from November 17, 2012
- ↑ Information on Cruz Traña's stations in Costa Rica from her biography under "Figuras femeninas del deporte" on the website of the Escuela de Educación Física y Deportes de la Universidad de Costa Rica .
- ↑ Characterization based on her short biography at olweb.fr
- ↑ This is how the association described this success in an article from June 2, 2012 on olweb.fr.
- ↑ see the press release of July 16, 2012 at olweb.fr
- ↑ see the message ( Memento of the original from May 18, 2015 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. from June 10, 2012 at psg.fr
- ↑ see the message from May 8, 2013 at psg.fr
- ↑ see the corresponding article from September 8, 2013 on the association's website
- ↑ a b after the article " Transfers: Shirley Cruz moves to Jiangsu Suning Football Club " from January 24, 2018 at footofeminin.fr
- ↑ Article " Alajuelense announces its most hopeful entry with kettledrums and trumpets: the captain Shirley Cruz " from October 10, 2019 at nacion.com
- ↑ The statement in Cruz Traña's French and English language Wikipedia articles that this was the CF Universidad de Costa Rica is possibly based on a geographical misunderstanding; UCR comes from another San Pedro in the region around San José, namely from San Pedro in the canton of Montes de Oca (see also her biography mentioned above under "Figuras femeninas del deporte" ).
- ↑ see the personal player statistics at fifa.com
- ↑ see the data sheet at soccerway.com
- ↑ see the article "Shirley Cruz will be the face of the FIFA U-17 in Costa Rica" ( Memento of the original from November 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) 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. at acercandonaciones.com and “Costa Rica opens its arms to the world” at fifa.com
- ↑ see the game data sheet ( Memento of the original from October 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at concacaf.com
- ↑ see the article "Shirley Cruz did not think about the punishment" from October 26, 2014 at footofeminin.fr
- ↑ see the match report Chile against Costa Rica from June 14, 2018 at footofeminin.fr
- ↑ Match reports of the encounters between Costa Rica and Panama and Haiti on January 28 and 31, 2020, both at footofeminin.fr
- ↑ Article " The USA and Canada go to Japan " from February 8, 2020 at footofeminin.fr
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cruz Traña, Shirley |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Cruz Traña, Shirley Iveth; Cruz Trana, Shirley (misspelling) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Costa Rican soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 28, 1985 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | San Jose |