Sydney Leroux

Sydney Leroux
Personnel
Surname	Sydney Rae Leroux Dwyer
birthday	May 7, 1990
place of birth	Surrey ,  Canada
size	170 cm
position	Storm
Juniors
Years	station
	Coquitlam City Wild
	Sereno FC
2008-2011	UCLA Bruins
Women
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2005	Vancouver Whitecaps
2011	Vancouver Whitecaps	11 (11)
2012	Seattle Sounders Women	2 0(2)
2013	Boston Breakers	19 (11)
2014	Seattle Reign FC	22 0(5)
2015	Western New York Flash	3 0(1)
2016-2017	Kansas City FC	23 0(6)
2018–	Orlando Pride	23 0(6)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals) 2
2004	Canada U-20	2 0(0)
2008-2010	USA U-20	36 (30)
2011–	United States	77 (35)
1 Only league games are given. Status: end of season 2019 2 As of August 3, 2017

Sydney Rae Leroux Dwyer (born May 7, 1990 in Surrey , Canada ) is an American football player . She plays for Orlando Pride and for the US national team .

life and career

Leroux is the daughter of Sandi Leroux , a Canadian who played for the Canadian national softball team, and Ray Chadwick , an American father who played major league baseball for the Anaheim Angels . Leroux began playing football on the high school team at Johnston Heights Secondary School in Surrey. At the age of 14, she took part in the 2004 U-19 Women's World Cup in Thailand as the youngest player in the history of the U-20 World Championships for Canada . At the age of 15 she was the youngest player in the Vancouver Whitecaps to play in the W-League and moved to the USA. She has been married to soccer player Dom Dwyer since January 2015, and a year later both announced that they were expecting their first child together.

societies

In the 2013 season she played in the newly founded National Women's Soccer League , the highest American professional league in women's football, for the Boston Breakers . For the 2014 season, she switched to league rivals Seattle Reign FC in exchange for Kristie Mewis and Michelle Betos and to Western New York Flash a year later. There she came due to an injury and the World Cup only to three missions in the early phase of the season. For the 2016 season, she joined the reigning champions FC Kansas City , but missed the entire season due to her pregnancy. Two years later she switched to the Orlando Pride franchise .

National team

In 2008 she won the U-20 team, the FIFA U-20 World Cup in Chile , where she was awarded with five goals scorer and the best player in the Golden Ball. In 2010 she won the CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship in 2010 , scoring the winning goal in the final against Mexico to make it 1-0. With the win, the team qualified for the U-20 soccer world championship in Germany .

There she reached the quarter-finals with the USA , in which she was defeated 2: 4 on penalties against eventual runner-up Nigeria. With 5 tournament goals she won the bronze shoe as the third best goalscorer and was elected to the team of the tournament. With a total of 10 goals, she is together with Alexandra Popp and Christine Sinclair the record scorer at U-20 World Championships .

On January 21, 2011 she made the four-nation tournament in the game against Sweden , in which she was substituted on in the 86th minute, her first game in the senior team. But then she had to wait a year for her second game. On January 22, 2012 she was substituted on for Abby Wambach in the qualifying tournament for the Olympic Games in a 13-0 win against Guatemala in the second half and scored five goals, four of which were a "flawless" hat trick . She is the first US player to score five goals in her second game.

Leroux was in the squad for the Olympic football tournament and was substituted on in four games. In the quarter-finals against New Zealand , she scored the goal to make it 2-0 six minutes after being substituted on. She was not used in the final and won her first gold medal without being used in the final.

On February 13, 2013, she was in the 3-1 win against Scotland for the first time in the starting line-up after being substituted on in her previous 29 appearances. With 10 goals, she was the US team's second best goalscorer in 2013.

She was also named to the US squad for the 2015 World Cup . It was used in four games. In the first two group matches , she was in the starting line-up, but was always substituted and replaced by Alex Morgan . She then lost her place in the starting line-up and was only substituted for them in the last group game against Nigeria and then again in stoppage time of the semi-finals against Germany . With the 5-2 of her team in the final against Japan , she became world champion with the senior national team.

In 2016 she was not used due to her pregnancy and in 2017 only in two games of the Tournament of Nations . Since then she has not been nominated again, also due to another pregnancy.

successes

• World Champion at the 2015 Women's World Cup
• U-20 world champion 2008
• Top scorer and best player of the U-20 World Cup 2008
• Winner of the 2010 CONCACAF U-20 Championship
• Olympic champion 2012
• Algarve Cup winner 2013, 2015

Web links

Commons : Sydney Leroux  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Player profile on the US association website (English)
• Profile on the website of UCLA (English)
• Sydney Leroux in the database of FIFA (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Vancouver Whitecaps FC - 2011 Statistics ( Memento of the original from October 10, 2012 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. , uslsoccer.com. Retrieved February 18, 2014. 
2. ↑ Seattle Sounders Women - 2012 Statistics ( Memento of the original from July 15, 2012 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. , uslsoccer.com. Retrieved January 23, 2014. 
3. ↑ Soccer Power Couple - Who Wear Jersey Nos. 2 and 14 - Pick Valentine's Day to Reveal They're Married! accessed on February 17, 2016 (English).
4. ↑ Sydney Leroux and Dom Dwyer announce they're expecting their first child , accessed on February 17, 2016.
5. ↑ ussoccer.com: NWSL Announces Allocation of 55 National Team Players to Eight Clubs ( Memento of the original from March 4, 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. 
6. ^ Jeff Kassouf: Leroux traded to Seattle as Mewis heads to Boston , equalizersoccer.com. Retrieved November 18, 2013.
7. ↑ Match report USA U20 - Mexico U20  ( 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.  
8. ↑ ussoccer.com: US Women's National Team Qualifies for Semifinals of 2012 CONCACAF Olympic Women's Qualifying with 13-0 Victory Against Guatemala ( Memento of the original from March 23, 2014 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. 
9. ↑ ussoccer.com: US WNT Wins Second Straight Against Scotland ( Memento of the original from February 26, 2014 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. 
10. ↑ US WNT Defeats Brazil 4-1 in Orlando to Complete Undefeated 2013 Campaign ( Memento of the original from March 19, 2014 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.