Abby Wambach

Abby Wambach
in 2011
Personnel
Surname	Mary Abigail Wambach
birthday	June 2, 1980
place of birth	Rochester ,  USA
size	181 cm
position	Striker
Juniors
Years	station
until 1998	Our Lady of Mercy High School
Women
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1999-2002	University of Florida
2002-2004	Washington Freedom
2009-2010	Washington Freedom	39 0(21)
2011	magicJack	11 00(9)
2013-2015	Western New York Flash	29 0(17)
2015	Seattle Reign FC	0 00(0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
2001	USA U-16
2001	USA U-21
2001-2015	United States	255 (184)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
2011	magicJack (player trainer)
1 Only league games are given.

Mary Abigail "Abby" Wambach [ ˈwɒmbɑːk ] (born June 2, 1980 in Rochester , New York ) is a former American football player and coach . The striker played for the US national team from 2001 to 2015 . From 2013 to 2020 she was the soccer player with the most international goals. She was voted World Player of the Year in 2012.

Career

Wambach grew up in Pittsford , a suburb of Rochester, where she was born. She attended Our Lady of Mercy High School until 1998 , where she played on both the soccer and basketball teams. After high school, she moved to the University of Florida . In the very first season she won the championship with her team. To this day she is the most successful goalscorer at her university. In 2002 she was drawn as the second player in the WUSA draft of Washington Freedom. She celebrated her debut in the national team on September 9, 2001, in a 4-1 win over Germany in the US Cup, which was canceled due to the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 . On April 27, 2002, she scored her first international goal on her second appearance in a 3-0 win against Finland. In 2003 she won third place at the World Cup with the US selection and was a member of the FIFA Allstar Team, which played against the world champions from Germany on May 20, 2004 . In 2004 she won the WUSA championship and became an Olympic champion with the national team. In the final against Brazil , she scored the winning goal in extra time with a header. She came fourth in the FIFA World Player of the Year vote . In 2007 she again reached third place at the World Cup and also won the silver shoe with six goals scored as the second most successful goalscorer, together with Ragnhild Gulbrandsen . Due to an injury, she was sidelined for the Beijing Olympics. On July 19, 2009, she scored her hundredth goal for the American national team in a friendly against Canada . This makes her the fifth player in the USA to have scored at least 100 international goals .

Wambach was a member of the US squad for the World Cup in Germany . In the first World Cup game against North Korea , she provided the template to make it 1-0 and was voted player of the game. In the last group game against Sweden , she scored the next goal to make it 1: 2. With this defeat, the USA only finished second in the group and met Brazil in the quarter-finals . In that game, Wambach scored the equalizer in the 122nd minute with a header to make it 2-2; The USA won 5-3 on penalties. The goal was nominated by FIFA along with nine other goals for the “Goal of the Tournament” election and voted the most beautiful goal on FIFA.com. She also scored a decisive goal in the semi-finals against France and with her 121st international goal, she moved up to fourth place in the ranking of the best goalscorers . This was also her 12th World Cup goal , which she drew level with Michelle Akers . In the 104th minute of the final against Japan, she scored an intermittent 2-1 lead and thus her 13th World Cup goal. Since Japan was still able to equalize and won the subsequent penalty shoot-out 3-1, in which Wambach was the only US player to be successful, it was only enough for second place. With her fourth tournament goal she was the US team's top scorer at a world championship for the third time in a row.

With her two goals in the 13-0 win over Guatemala on January 22, 2011, she overtook Birgit Prinz and initially moved up to third place in the ranking of the best goalscorers. In the final against Canada she scored two more goals and improved to 2nd place behind Mia Hamm , who had scored a total of 158 goals.

At the 2012 Olympic Games , she scored one goal in each of the first two games and was the best US goalscorer at the Olympic Games with an initial 6 goals . In the three following games she scored another goal, only in the final, won 2-1 against Japan , she remained without a goal. With a total of 9 goals she is the third best goalscorer at the Olympic Games after Cristiane (12) and Birgit Prinz (10).

On December 12, 2012 she scored her international goals number 149 and 150 in a 4-0 win against China.

At the award ceremony of the FIFA Ballon d'Or on January 7, 2013, Wambach was named FIFA World Player. Hope Solo , her colleague from the US national team , gave the laudation .

From 2013 to 2014 she played in the newly founded National Women's Soccer League , the highest American professional league in women's football, for the Western New York Flash franchise . After she had announced a career break in the league for 2015, she was transferred from the Flash to Seattle Reign FC in late March 2015.

On February 13, 2013, she made her 200th international match in the 3-1 win against Scotland as the eighth US American and on this occasion led the team onto the field as captain.

On June 20, 2013, she scored four goals in a 5-0 win against South Korea in the first half, initially setting Mia Hamm's world record of 158 goals and then increasing it to 160 goals.

Wambach (No. 20, with association pennant) with the US national team before the game against England on February 13, 2015

She was also part of the US squad for the 2015 World Cup in Canada . She came in all seven games for use, but was only in the group matches against Australia and Nigeria - against them to one goal: scoring 0 victory - and in the second round against Colombia in the starting XI, with them as the team captain again Spielfeld led because the actual captain Christie Rampone was not used. In the other games she was substituted on in the closing stages. In the final against Japan , which her team won 5-2, she took over the captain's armband from the second substitute captain Carli Lloyd after being substituted on, but passed it on to Christie Rampone when she was also substituted on. Both then received the World Cup trophy together. On November 1, 2015, she announced the end of her career at the end of 2015.

On December 16, 2015, she played her 255th and last international match in a 1-0 draw against China in New Orleans . She ended her career at the end of the year.

Her 184 international goals were only outbid on January 29, 2020 by Canadian Christine Sinclair .

Personal

Wambach married her then teammate Sarah Huffman in Hawaii in October 2013 . The couple divorced in September 2016. On May 14, 2017, she married Christian blogger and author Glennon Doyle Melton .

successes

• Olympic champion in 2004 and 2012
• Vice World Champion 2011
• CONCACAF Women's Gold Cup winner in 2002 , 2006 and 2014
• CONCACAF Women's Gold Cup scorer queen 2006 (together with three other players), 2010 and 2014
• Record scorer at the Algarve Cup (23 goals)
• International record scorer (184 goals - as of March 9, 2019)
• World Champion 2015

Awards

• US Player of the Year 2003, 2004, 2007, 2010, 2011 and 2013 (record)
• 2011: Silver Ball as the second best player in the World Cup
• 2011: Bronze shoe as the third best goalscorer in the World Cup
• 2011: Appointment to the team of the tournament at the World Cup
• 2011: Nominated for the FIFA Ballon d'Or
• 2011: Associated Press Athlete of the Year
• 2012: FIFA Ballon d'Or winner
• 2013 and 2014: Nominated for the election of world footballer
• 2013: Election to the All-Time Women's National Team Best XI

Web links

Commons : Abby Wambach  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Abby Wambach. In: FemBio. Women's biography research (with references and citations).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ WNT Player Profiles: Heather O'Reilly and Abby Wambach
2. ↑ canadasoccer.com: Christine Sinclair breaks record as Canada open with 11: 0 victory in Texas
3. ↑ DFB.de: Women's national team is subject to world selection with 2: 3
4. ↑ FIFA.com: US girls don't show up
5. ↑ FIFA.com: Goal of the Tournament
6. ↑ ussoccer.com: US Women's National Team Defeats Canada 4-0 To Win CONCACAF Olympic Qualifying Tournament ( Memento from March 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
7. ↑ ussoccer.com: US WNT Beats China PR 4-0 at BBVA Compass Stadium in Houston ( Memento from October 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
8. ↑ Radiant winners and emotional moments fifa.com, accessed on January 7, 2013
9. ↑ ussoccer.com: NWSL Announces Allocation of 55 National Team Players to Eight Clubs ( Memento from March 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
10. ↑ ussoccer.com: US WNT Wins Second Straight Against Scotland ( Memento from February 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
11. ↑ ussoccer.com: Abby Wambach Becomes All-Time Leading Scorer with Four Goals in 5-0 Win vs. Korea Republic ( March 25, 2014 memento in the Internet Archive )
12. ↑ ussoccer.com: "WNT Caps Off European Trip with 1-0 Victory against England"
13. ↑ [FINAL HIGHLIGHTS: USA v. Japan - FIFA Women's World Cup 2015 FINAL HIGHLIGHTS: USA v. Japan - FIFA Women's World Cup 2015]
14. ^ World's All-Time Leading Scorer Abby Wambach Announces Retirement . United States Soccer Federation. October 27, 2015. Retrieved October 28, 2015.
15. ↑ ussoccer.com: "WNT Sends Off Abby Wambach in Front of Record Crowd in New Orleans"
16. ↑ US national player Wambach ends her career Spiegel Online, October 28, 2015, accessed on December 29, 2015.
17. ↑ fifa.com: The football world celebrates the new record scorer Sinclair
18. ↑ queer.de:Abby Wambach is under the hood
19. ↑ Abby Wambach details drugs, alcohol use and divorce in her new book , Rochester Democrat & Chronicle. September 12, 2016. Retrieved September 13, 2016. 
20. ↑ A Christian mom blogger announces she's dating soccer star Abby Wambach , The Washington Post. November 14, 2016. Archived from the original on November 16, 2018. 
21. ↑ Joseph Zucker: Former USWNT star Abby Wambach Marries blogger Glennon Doyle Melton . Bleacher Report. May 15, 2017. Retrieved May 15, 2017.
22. ↑ fifa.com: "FIFA Ballon d'Or"
23. ↑ US Soccer Announces All-Time Women's National Team Best XI ( Memento from January 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive )

predecessor	Office	Successor
Shannon MacMillan Kristine Lilly Hope Solo Alex Morgan	Footballer of the Year in the USA 2003, 2004 2007 2010, 2011 2013	Kristine Lilly Carli Lloyd Alex Morgan Lauren Holiday