Cindy Parlow

Cynthia Marie Parlow (born May 8, 1978 in Memphis , Tennessee ) is a former American soccer player and current coach . With the selection of her homeland she was twice Olympic champion ( 1996 and 2004 ) and once world champion ( 1999 ), she also won a silver medal at the Olympics ( 2000 ) and a bronze medal at the world championship tournament ( 2003 ). Parlow played both as a striker and as an attacking midfielder.

1994 Parlow was part of the US U-16 squad without commitment, but her career only really began when she began college in 1995 with the NCAA women's soccer record champions, the Tar Heels of the University of North Carolina . She was voted the best rookie in US college women's football and at the end of the year was appointed to the roster of the US women's selection for the first time, for which she was 17 years old not only for her first appearance on January 14, 1996, but also hers was able to achieve the first two international goals and was able to establish herself immediately as a supplementary player in the team. Parlow was nominated for the 1996 Olympic squad , in the tournament she played twice as a substitute for a short time.

From 1996 to 1998 Parlow was the key player in the Tar Heels and was able to lead them to the US College Championship and was awarded several times, including twice the Hermann Trophy as the best female soccer player at a US college, and was also a regular player in the US selection during this time ; so she was then also in 1999 at the World Cup and in 2000 at the Olympic football tournament in every game.

In 2001 she became a professional player at Atlanta Beat in the newly founded WUSA , where she remained one of the key players until the fall of the league in 2003 and twice reached the final of the championship, although not winning.

After her second Olympic victory in 2004, she ended her career in 2006 for health reasons; Overall, she was able to achieve 75 goals for the US selection in 158 games. 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 Cup. The game is not counted as an official international match. At 23 years and 56 days, she was the youngest US player to make her 100th international.

Parlow was established in December 2012 as the first coach of the newly founded NWSL - franchises Portland Thorns FC presented. In August 2013 she and her team won the NWSL final against Western New York Flash and was then nominated in October 2013 for the election of world coach of the year. For private reasons, she surprisingly resigned as trainer of the Thorns in December, when Paul Riley was introduced as her successor .

Web links

• Profile Parlows on the WUSA website.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ussoccer.com: "FIFA World Stars Defeat US Women's National Team, 2-1, at 1999 Women's World Cup Final Draw"
2. ↑ US WNT 100 Cap History ( Memento of the original from April 25, 2012 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.  
3. ↑ fifa.com: "Football coach of the year"
4. ↑ Jeff Kassouf: Paul Riley named new Portland Thorns FC coach , equalizersoccer.com (English). Retrieved December 11, 2013.