Gillian Coultard

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Gillian Coultard
Personnel
birthday July 22, 1963
place of birth Thorne ,  England
size 152 cm
position Midfield , sweeper
Women
Years station Games (goals) 1
1976-1982 Doncaster Rovers Belles
1982-1986 Rowntree WFC
1986-2001 Doncaster Rovers Belles
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1991-2000 England 119 (30)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
2008-2009 Hartlepool United Ladies
1 Only league games are given.

Gillian Coultard (born July 22, 1963 in Thorne , South Yorkshire ) is a former English football player . The midfielder played mainly for the Doncaster Rovers Belles . From 1981 to 2000 she played for the English national team . She was a member of the English national team for the 1995 World Cup and was England's record-breaking national player until September 19, 2012. Towards the end of her career she mostly played as a sweeper .

Career

society

Coultard played at the age of 13 for the Doncaster Rovers Belles , which she left in 1982 but to whom she returned in 1986 and won the FA Women's Cup six times with them , scoring the only goal in the 1990 final. In addition, she twice won the English championship with the Belles, who dominated English women's football in the 1980s and early 1990s and whose outstanding players included the 152 cm tall Coultard, who played more than 300 games for the Belles. She ended her club career in May 2001, a season in which she was runner-up with the Belles again behind the new series champion Arsenal .

National team

According to a report by the Independent on her 100th international match, she made her first international match in 1981 in a 3-1 against Ireland . FIFA does not list a match against Ireland with this result for 1981. In 1984 she was able to qualify with her team for the first European Women's Championship and was also used in the second semi-final game against Denmark . The finals against Sweden , which were played back and forth, both won 1-0 on home soil, resulting in a penalty shoot-out , which the English lost 4-5. Three years later, the English lost 3-2 in the semi-finals after extra time against Sweden and then also in the game for third place against Italy with 2-1. In the qualification for the EM 1989 , which began in the same year , the English women failed. Two years later, she and her team failed in the quarter-finals to defending champions Germany . In the qualification for the EM 1993 came the end in the quarterfinals, this time against Italy. Two years later, the semi-finals were reached in which they lost 4-1 and 2-1 to Germany. The English women had thus qualified for the second women's World Cup in Sweden for the first time . Coultard scored two goals in England's first World Cup game against Canada, which gave England a 3-0 lead, which was almost lost in the final minutes when the Canadians scored two more goals. She was also in the starting line-up in the following two group matches against eventual world champions Norway (0: 2) and Africa champions Nigeria (3: 2) and in the quarter-finals against European champions Germany, which were lost 3-0. With the entry into the quarter-finals, England would have qualified for the first women's Olympic soccer tournament at the Olympic Games in Atlanta , but since England is not an IOC member and the British associations could not agree on a common national team, the starting place went to Brazil. It wasn't until 2012 that a British women's team took part in the games in London , for which they were automatically qualified as hosts.

The qualification for the European Championship 1997 was then gambled away in the playoffs against Spain . On August 23, 1997, she made her 100th international match in a 4-0 win over Scotland as the first British player . England then failed to qualify for the 1999 World Cup. In a qualification group with Germany, Norway and the Netherlands only the last place was taken. The qualification for the EM 2001 was then successful again, but Coultard ended her active time in the early phase of the qualification.

By the end of her international career, which ended 1-0 against Switzerland on May 13, 2000 , she had made 119 caps and was only outbid on September 19, 2012 by Rachel Yankey , who made her first international match as Coultard made her 100th game. Meanwhile, three other players have more internationals, including the current record national player Fara Williams , who emphasized in 2014 that she achieved this higher number of internationals because more internationals are now being played. With 30 international goals she is in seventh place on the top scorer list.

In August 2015, she was part of an all-star team at a charity game. In November 2015, before the European Championship qualifier against Bosnia & Herzegovina , she received an award from UEFA along with other English players who have played at least 100 international matches .

trainer

From 2008 to 2009 she coached the new Hartlepool United Ladies team. She turned down an offer from the Estonian Association to train the Estonian women's national team for personal reasons.

Private

In August 2005 it was announced that she had breast cancer , but that it had been successfully treated with surgery and chemotherapy and radiation therapy .

successes

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ doncasterroversbelles.co: "Doncaster Rovers Belles Club History"
  2. ↑ doncasterfreepress.co: "FEATURE - Belles hit their stride again at 40"
  3. ↑ .bbc.co: "Coulthard bows out as season ends"
  4. ^ A b independent.co: "Football: England excel as Coultard joins club"
  5. ^ Danmark - England 0-1
  6. ↑ England 1: 4 (1: 1) Germany
  7. ↑ Germany 2: 1 (1: 1) England
  8. Jump up ↑ England - Canada 3-2
  9. ↑ thefa.com: "FA hosts 15th annual Women's Awards"
  10. ↑ bbc.co: "Coultard cautious over England hopes"
  11. ^ "Fara Williams pays tribute to former captain after cap 129"
  12. ^ "England Allstars reunite for charity match with Sheffield"
  13. ↑ thefa.com: "100 Club to be recognized at Euro qualifier at Bristol City"
  14. ↑ totalfootballmag.com: "From Tooting to Tallinn - managing the Estonian women's team"
  15. ↑ doncasterfreepress.co: "BELLES STAR'S CANCER FLIGHT"
  16. ↑ About The Hall Of Fame
personal data
SURNAME Coultard, Gillian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH July 22, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Thorne , England