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Steffi Jones
Steffi Jones
Personal information
Full name Stephanie Ann Jones
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position(s) Defender
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of March 25, 2008
Olympic medal record
Women's Football
Bronze medal – third place 2000 Sydney Team competition
Bronze medal – third place 2004 Athens Team competition

Stephanie Ann "Steffi" Jones (born 22 December 1972 in Frankfurt am Main) is a German football defender. She scored 9 goals in 111 caps for the German national team between 1993 and 2007[1] . In March 2007 she retired from the national team and in December 2007 she announced her retirement from active soccer to become president of the organisation committee of 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup.[2]

She is the daughter of an american soldier an a german woman, her parents are divorced. She holds both german and american citizenship.

Career

Club Teams

Steffi started playing soccer at the age of four. From 1979 to 1986 she played in mixed youth teams for SV Bonames in Frankfurt. In 1986 she joined the girls team of SG Praunheim and moved to the clubs womens team in 1988. In 1991 she switched to FSV Frankfurt and now switched teams almost every year until she ended up with 1. FFC Frankfurt in 2000. In 2002 she joined Washington Freedom to play in WUSA for two years before going back to Frankfurt where she ended her career as a player on 9 December 2007.

National Team

Her first cap for Germany was earned in 1993 in the match for bronze of the UEFA Women's Championship against Denmark, which Germany lost. From 1997 on she won three consecutive european championships with the german team, scored olympic bronze at the 2000 Summer Olympics and was part of the german squad that won the 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup Champions though she suffered from a rupture of the cruciate ligament early on in the tournament and had to pause for half a year. In 2004 she won olympic bronze for the second time in Athens.

On 26 March 2007 she announced the end of her international career.

Honours

Personal

  • 11 June 2006: Hessian Order of Merit „for many years of voluntary services as patron of the ‚Ballance 2006 – Integration und Toleranz für eine friedliche Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft.‘ project“[3]

Club

Year Team Championship/Medal
1998 FSV Frankfurt German Championship
2001 1. FFC Frankfurt German Championship
2001 1. FFC Frankfurt German Cup Winner
2002 1. FFC Frankfurt UEFA Women's Cup Winner
2002 1. FFC Frankfurt German Championship
2002 1. FFC Frankfurt German Cup Winner
2003 1. FFC Frankfurt German Championship
2003 1. FFC Frankfurt German Cup Winner
2003 Washington Freedom WUSA Founders Cup Champion
2005 1. FFC Frankfurt German Championship
2006 1. FFC Frankfurt UEFA Women's Cup Winner

Country

Year Championship/Medal
1997 UEFA Women's Championship
2000 Olympic Bronze
2001 UEFA Women's Championship
2003 FIFA World Cup Champion
2004 Olympic Bronze
2005 UEFA Women's Championship

Personal Life

Her brother Frank served as an american soldier in Iraq. He lost both legs in an assault in 2006.

In August 2007 Steffi's autobiographical book Der Kick des Lebens (The kick of life) was released.[4]

Currently, she’s working on her coaching license at the German Sports University in Cologne.

External links

References

  1. ^ DFB (March 28, 2007). "official statistics at [[DFB]]". DFB Net. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); URL–wikilink conflict (help)
  2. ^ DFB (November 11, 2007). "official announcement at [[DFB]]". DFB Net. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); URL–wikilink conflict (help)
  3. ^ Hessische Staatskanzlei: Hessischer Verdienstorden für Steffi Jones; Pressemitteilung vom 11. Juni 2006
  4. ^ JENS-MEYER ODEWALD (September 22, 2007). "Interview with Steffi Jones (in German)". Hamburger Abendblatt. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
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