Briana Scurry

Briana Scurry during youth training in Frankfurt am Main before the 2011 World Cup

Briana Collette Scurry (born September 7, 1971 in Minneapolis ) is a former American football player . She played in the position of goalkeeper .

Briana Scurry was the goalkeeper of the US women's national soccer team from the mid-1990s to 2007 . She took part in the women's soccer world championships in 1995 (third place), 1999 (title) and 2003 (third place). In addition, participation comes to the Olympics in 1996 in Atlanta (Gold Medal), 2000 in Sydney (silver medal) and in 2004 in Athens (gold medal). She played 175 international matches, more than any other goalkeeper until August 3, 2014, then the record was set by the Scot Gemma Fay and topped on August 20, 2014. The number was only set to 175 games in August 2016 after the US federation, when reviewing its statistics, came across two international matches held in January 1995, which had not been taken into account until then and in which it was used. In some statistics that have not yet been updated, it is therefore still listed with 173 international matches.

From 2005 it was only used sporadically and at the 2007 World Cup it was only used in the semi-finals against Brazil and conceded four goals in the worst defeat of the US team. Since the goalkeeper Hope Solo, who had been used up until then, chalked up the defeat, she was not used in the game for third place and Scurry guarded the goal again in the 4-1 win against Norway.

She played her last international match on November 5, 2008 against South Korea. On June 30, 2015, she was replaced by Hope Solo as the record goalkeeper in the USA. In February 1999, on the occasion of the group draw for the 1999 World Cup, she played with the national team against a FIFA world team. The game is not counted as an official international match.

Awards

• 2013: Election to the All-Time Women's National Team Best XI

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ussoccer.com: Case of the Missing Caps
2. ↑ FIFA Hunderterklub (as of January 7, 2011, no further update thereafter)
3. ↑ Interview with Hope Solo after the 2007 semi-final (YouTube)
4. ↑ ussoccer.com: "USA Advances to 2015 World Cup Quarterfinal with 2-0 Win Against Colombia"
5. ↑ ussoccer.com: "FIFA World Stars Defeat US Women's National Team, 2-1, at 1999 Women's World Cup Final Draw"
6. ↑ US Soccer Announces All-Time Women's National Team Best XI ( Memento of the original from January 21, 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.  

Web links

• Portrait on soccerdivas.com (Engl.)
• Portrait on soccertimes.com (Engl.)
• Briana Scurry in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Briana Scurry in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )