Carin Jennings-Gabarra

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Carin Gabarra
Personnel
birthday January 9, 1965
place of birth East Orange , New Jersey ,  USA
position attack
Juniors
Years station
1980-1983 Palos Verdes High School
1983-1986 UC Santa Barbara gauchos
Women
Years station Games (goals) 1
Southern California Ajax
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1987-1996 United States 119 (56)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1987 Westmont College
1988 Harvard University
1993– United States Naval Academy
1 Only league games are given.

Carin Leslie Jennings-Gabarra (born January 9, 1965 as Carin Leslie Jennings in East Orange , New Jersey ) is a former American soccer player and current coach who played for the United States women's national soccer team from 1987 to 1996 and in 1991 World champion and 1996 Olympic champion. In 1991 she was the first female player to be awarded the "Golden Ball" for the best female player at the World Cup.

Career

education

Jennings, who was born on the east coast of the United States, grew up on the west coast in Rancho Palos Verdes , California , and attended Palos Verdes High School there . In four seasons of high school soccer, she scored 226 goals and was four times All-American and three times California's Most Valuable Player . After high school, she attended the University of California, Santa Barbara and played gauchos for UC Santa Barbara. By 1986, she set multiple records in NCAA Division I and was named Athlete of the Decade for the University and inducted into the University's Hall of Fame.

National team

On July 5, 1987 Jennings made her international debut for the US national team in a 3-0 win against European champions Norway - the Norwegians should meet her again and again in important games in the course of their national team career. Two days later, she scored her first international goal in a 4-2 win against Canada in the North America Cup. From then on she was a regular player and was also used in the following games. On June 1, 1988 she was the first US player to score three goals in one game against Japan at the unofficial World Cup in China ("Women's FIFA Invitational Tournament 1988") . The USA then failed in the quarterfinals to Norway, but Jennings was written into the Allstar team by the Chinese press. A month later, she scored both goals for a 2-1 win at Mundialito in the USA's first game against West Germany . This time the USA failed in the semifinals to England . In 1991 she took part in the first official World Cup in China , where she and her team became the first women's world champion with a 2-1 win in the final against Norway. She scored the first two World Cup goals for the USA in the opening game against Sweden, which she won 3-2 . She scored a total of six goals in the tournament, three of them as a "flawless" hat trick in the 5-2 semi-final against Germany. With her six goals she was the third best goalscorer of the tournament together with the Norwegian Linda Medalen and received the Golden Ball as the best player in the World Cup.

In the only two games played in 1992, it was not used. That year she married the US international Jim Gabarra and has since been listed in the statistics as Carin Gabarra or Carin Jennings-Gabarra. On March 11, 1993, she set the 2-0 win against Denmark just like Mia Hamm with her 52nd international matches, the national record of Shannon Higgins and increased it to June 19, 1993 to 59 games. On the 21st, Carin Jennings-Gabarra became the sole record national player with her 60th international match. Since it was not used in the five games in Hamilton, Canada in July , Mia Hamm was able to set the record in the next game and then beat it. In 1994 she took part in the first ever Algarve Cup , in which the USA reached the final, but lost the World Cup final against Norway. A year later they were defeated by the Norwegians on penalties in the game for third place at the Algarve Cup . And they were also defeated by the Northern Europeans at the 1995 World Cup , this time in the semi-finals. The Norwegians then succeeded the USA as world champions with a 2-0 win in the final against Germany.

On January 21, 1996, Brazil was the opponent in her 100th international match , which she made as the third US player after Kristine Lilly and Mia Hamm . On May 19, 1995, she scored her 50th international goal in a 9-1 win against Canada . From 1996 she was mostly only substituted in or out when she was in the starting line-up. This was also the case at the women's first Olympic football tournament at the 1996 Summer Olympics , where she took part in all games except for the semi-final against Norway. The final on August 1, 1996, when she came on for Mia Hamm one minute before the end of the game and won the gold medal 2-1 against China , was her 119th and last international match. The number was only set to 119 games and 56 goals in August 2016 after the US federation had come across two international matches played in January 1995 when reviewing its statistics, which had not been taken into account until then and in which they scored three goals. In some statistics that have not yet been updated, it is still listed with 117 international matches.

She was not used in only 15 games during her active time. With seven goals after Mia Hamm (9), she scored the most goals against the German women's national football team and, alongside Mia Hamm and Patrizia Panico, is the only player to score three goals against the German national team in one game.

trainer

While still active, she worked as a trainer for college and university teams and the United States Naval Academy . She continued this activity after her active time.

Private life

She has been married to former US international Jim Gabarra since 1992 . The couple have a son and two daughters.

successes

Awards

As a player

  • 1987 and 1992: United States Footballer of the Year
  • 1991: Golden Ball as the best player in the World Cup
  • 2000: Induction into the National Soccer Hall of Fame
  • 2000: Admission to the Soccer America College Team of the Century
  • 2001: National Soccer Medal of Honor
  • 2003: Induction into the United States Olympic Hall of Fame (as a member of the 1996 Olympic team)

As a trainer

  • 1996, 2006, 2013: Patriot League Coach of the Year

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DIVISION I WOMEN'S SOCCER RECORDS
  2. ↑ newspapers.com: "Supersport: Carin Gabarra"
  3. ↑ Women's FIFA Invitational Tournament 1988
  4. ↑ Mundialito (Women) 1982-1988
  5. ↑ Sweden - USA 2: 3 (0: 1)
  6. ↑ Germany - USA 2: 5 (1: 3
  7. ↑ China PR - USA 1: 2 (1: 1)
  8. ↑ ussoccer.com: Case of the Missing Caps
  9. ↑ FIFA Hunderterklub (as of January 7, 2011, no further update thereafter)

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personal data
SURNAME Jennings-Gabarra, Carin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jennings-Gabarra, Carin Leslie (full name); Jennings, Carin (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH January 9, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH East Orange , New Jersey , United States