Amy LePeilbet

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Amy LePeilbet
Amy LePeilbet USA vs Can Sep17.jpg
LePeilbet in September 2011
Personnel
Surname Amy Elizabeth LePeilbet
birthday March 12, 1982
place of birth Spokane , Washington ,  USA
size 168 cm
position Defense
Juniors
Years station
2000-2003 Arizona State Sun Devils
Women
Years station Games (goals) 1
2000-2002 Chicago Cobras
2003-2005 Arizona Heatwave
2008 Pali blues 12 (2)
2009-2011 Boston Breakers 51 (0)
2013-2014 Chicago Red Stars 0 (0)
2014-2015 Kansas City FC 31 (2)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
2002-2003 USA U-21
2004–2012 United States 84 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
Utah Avalanche (Juniors)
2018– Utah Royals FC (assistant coach)
2019– Utah Royals FC Reserves
1 Only league games are given.

Amy Elizabeth LePeilbet (born March 12, 1982 in Spokane , Washington ) is a former American football player and coach. She played for Kansas City FC and the US national team until 2015 .

life and career

LePeilbet and Christie Rampone (yellow jersey) during training on June 30, 2011 in Heidelberg

LePeilbet began playing soccer and basketball at Prairie Ridge High School in Crystal Lake and holds school records in both sports. She also received several awards from Arizona State University . She also played for the Chicago Cobras and in 2005 for Arizona Heatwave in the W-League . In 2008 she won the W-League with Pali Blues and scored the decisive goal for the 2-1 win in the final against Indiana FC . She has been playing for the Boston Breakers since the start of WPS in 2009 and was named “WPS Defender of the Year” in 2009 and 2010 and was appointed to the Allstart teams.

LePeilbet was the defense chief of the U-21 teams that won the Nordic Cup in 2002 and 2003 .

In 2004 she was invited to the training of the senior national team for the first time and made her first senior international game at the age of 21 when she was substituted on January 30, 2004 in a 3-0 win against Sweden in the four-nation tournament that the USA won . It was also used in the Algarve Cup and the CONCACAF qualification tournament for the Olympic Games, but was not part of the squad that won gold in Athens. In 2006 she won the four-nation tournament again with the US team as a defender who only conceded one goal and only lost to Germany on penalties at the Algarve Cup . In October 2006, she pulled up a cruciate ligament injury to, so that they for the World Cup 2007 and the Olympic Games in Beijing failed. In 2009 she returned to the US team and was used in the 1-0 win against Germany in Augsburg, where the SGL arena was sold out for the first time.

In 2010 it finally established itself on the US team's defensive position: It was used in 17 of 18 games from the start, including a. in the Algarve Cup victory and in all games at the CONCACAF Women's Gold Cup 2010 as well as the playoff games against Italy .

In 2011, however, it was only used in four out of ten games before the World Cup. a. when he won the four-nation tournament , but was still part of the US squad for the 2011 World Cup in Germany . She was used in all three preliminary round matches, in the quarter-finals and semi-finals and reached the final against Japan with her team. However, she repeatedly had problems with the opposing attacking players and caused the penalty in the game for the group victory that led to the 1-0 lead for Sweden . Nevertheless, she was in the starting line-up in all six games, but in the quarterfinals the American central defense was changed so that she played alongside the more experienced Christie Rampone .

LePeilbet was in the squad for the Olympic football tournament in London and was used in five out of six games. In the final against Japan on August 9, 2012, she won the gold medal for the first time.

She has not yet been used under the new trainer Tom Sermanni and has only been invited to a training camp once in December 2013 after she recovered from her cruciate ligament rupture.

In the 2013 season, she was supposed to play in the newly founded National Women's Soccer League , the highest American professional league in women's football, for the Chicago Red Stars , but was not used due to her cruciate ligament rupture and subsequent rehab. Immediately before the start of the 2014 season, she moved to league rivals FC Kansas City , with whom she won the championship twice in a row before announcing her retirement in December 2015.

Private

Her sister Abby worked in the WPS office and for FIFA.com.

successes

Awards

  • W-League Championship Game MVP 2008
  • WPS Defender of the Year 2009 and 2010
  • more (see web links)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DFB.de: Match report Germany - USA 0: 1 (0: 1)
  2. ↑ ussoccer.com: Sundhage Names 2011 US Women's World Cup Team ( Memento from May 15, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ chicagoredstars.com: Amy LePeilbet Called Into USWNT December Camp
  4. ↑ ussoccer.com: NWSL Announces Allocation of 55 National Team Players to Eight Clubs ( Memento from March 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ equalizersoccer.com: LePeilbet to have ACL surgery, miss 6-8 months
  6. ↑ Chicago Red Stars Trade Defender Amy LePeilbet To FC Kansas City , chicagoredstars.com (English). Retrieved March 31, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME LePeilbet, Amy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES LePeilbet, Amy Elizabeth (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American national soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Spokane , Washington , USA