Heather O'Reilly

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Heather O'Reilly
Heather O'Reilly USA vs. Can Sep17.jpg
O'Reilly before the game against
Canada on September 17, 2011
Personnel
Surname Heather Ann O'Reilly
birthday 2nd January 1985
place of birth New Brunswick , New Jersey ,  USA
size 165 cm
position midfield
Juniors
Years station
2003-2006 North Carolina Tar Heels
Women
Years station Games (goals) 1
2004-2005 New Jersey Wildcats 9 0(8)
2009-2011 Sky Blue FC 50 0(4)
2011 Boston Breakers
2013-2014 Boston Breakers 42 (14)
2015-2016 Kansas City FC 25 0(3)
2017-2018 Arsenal LFC 24 0(3)
2018– North Carolina Courage 25 0(2)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
USA U-19 18 (18)
USA U-21
2002-2016 United States 231 (47)
1 Only league games are given.
Status: end of season 2019

2 As of September 4, 2016

Heather Ann O'Reilly (born January 2, 1985 in New Brunswick , New Jersey ) is an American football player . She has been under contract with NWSL participant North Carolina Courage since June 2018 . From 2002 to 2016, O'Reilly was a regular on the US national team .

life and career

O'Reilly in Tar Heels (2006)

During her high school years in East Brunswick , she played for her high school team, scoring 143 goals in four years. She also played on the high school basketball team on the side . After enrolling at the University of North Carolina , she played three years for the North Carolina Tar Heels women's soccer and since 2004 for the New Jersey Wildcats in the W-League , with which she won the title in 2005.

In 2002, at the age of 17, she was part of the victorious US team at the U-19 World Cup , with Lindsey Tarpley doing the preparatory work for the golden goal in the final . In 2005 she won the Nordic Cup with the U-21 .

She made her first of 173 senior internationals on March 1, 2002 in a 1-1 draw against Sweden in the Algarve Cup . The first international goal was the 2-0 on October 6, 2006 in a 4-0 win over Italy . In the 5-0 win against Ireland on June 14, 2003, she suffered a broken fibula when she scored the 1-0 in the second minute of the game and clashed with the Irish goalkeeper. Because of this injury, she was unable to take part in the 2003 World Cup in the USA. In 2004 she was part of the roster for the Olympic Games and in the semifinals against Germany she scored one of the most important goals in US history with a 2-1 win. In the final against Brazil, which was won 2-1 afterwards, she was substituted on at the beginning of extra time.

In 2005 she was part of the victorious US team at the Algarve Cup , where she was on the starting line-up for the first time since her fibula fracture. In the final against Germany, however, she was only substituted on in the 83rd minute. At the Algarve Cup 2006 she played for the first time over 90 minutes in a 5-0 win against Denmark, but the final was lost to Germany on penalties.

The year 2007 began for her when she won the Algarve Cup again . At the 2007 World Cup , she was used in all six games, in the first game she scored the goal to make it 2-2 in the final against North Korea and in the final game for third place she scored the fourth goal to win 4-1 against Norway .

In 2008 she scored ten goals and also did the preparatory work for ten goals, which only five players had achieved before her. First, she was able to repeat winning the Algarve Cup and score two goals. At the victorious Olympic Games in Beijing , she scored the fastest goal of the Olympic Games against New Zealand when she scored 1-0 40 seconds after kick-off.

O'Reilly in a Sky Blue FC game (2010)

In 2009 she won the first ever women's professional soccer season with Sky Blue FC .

In 2010 she set Carla Overbeck's US record of 62 games in a row. In the final of the Algarve Cup, she did the preparatory work in the 3-2 win against Germany by Abby Wambach . At the 2010 CONCACAF Women's Gold Cup , where the US team surprisingly only finished third and missed direct qualification for the 2011 World Cup , it was used in all five games, as well as in the necessary playoff games against Italy .

In 2011 she won the Algarve Cup for the fifth time, with the goal of equalizing 2-2 against Iceland in the final, which she won 3-2 . She is part of the US squad for the 2011 World Cup in Germany . In the second World Cup game, she scored 1-0 in the 12th minute in a 3-0 win against Colombia . The goal was included in the selection for the "Goal of the Tournament". In the last game against Sweden it was not used, after the team's defeat against the Swedes, the USA met Brazil in the quarter-finals , which the USA won 5: 3 on penalties after a 2: 2 nV. In the penalty shootout, she was no longer used because she was substituted in the 108th minute. She was also in the starting line-up in the 3-1 victory in the semi-finals against France and in the final against Japan. Her most noticeable scene was in the 66th minute when she hit a cross on Abby Wambach , whose header the Japanese goalkeeper managed to steer over the bar. It was not used in the penalty shoot-out that was lost 3-1.

On September 17, 2011, she made her 150th international match as the 48th player.

O'Reilly was in the squad for the Olympic football tournament in London and was used in four of six games. In the final against Japan on August 9, 2012, it was not used and thus won the third gold medal without being used in the final.

On March 8, 2013, she was substituted on in the second half of the game against China at the 2013 Algarve Cup . She was the only US player in this game with more than 100 internationals, while 5 players with 100 or more internationals were not used.

From 2013 to 2014 she played in the newly founded National Women's Soccer League , the highest American professional league in women's football, for the Boston Breakers .

On March 12, 2014, she made her 200th international match in the Algarve Cup when she came on in the game for 7th place against North Korea in the second half and scored her 40th international goal in the 88th minute.

She was also named to the US squad for the 2015 World Cup . But she only came on when she was substituted on in the quarterfinals against China in the closing stages. By winning her team in the final against Japan , she became world champion for the first time.

It was not taken into account for the qualifying tournament for the 2016 Summer Olympics . For the following SheBelieves Cup 2016 it was then taken into account again, but was not used. She was not nominated for the Olympic football tournament, in which the USA was eliminated in the quarterfinals for the first time. On September 1, 2016, she announced the end of her international career after the September 15 game against Thailand. In this game she was captain again and scored a goal.

Private

In the fall of 2011, she married Dave Werry, whom she met at UNC .

successes

Awards

  • "US Soccer's Young Female Athlete of the Year" 2004

Web links

Commons : Heather O'Reilly  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lloyd, Wambach and Cheney Score As US Women Win 2010 Algarve Cup With 3-2 Victory Against Germany ( Memento from December 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ US WNT Defeats Iceland For 2011 Algarve Cup Title ( Memento from November 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup roster. Archived from the original on May 14, 2011 ; accessed on August 26, 2014 (English).
  4. ↑ FIFA.com: USA get off to a perfect start
  5. ↑ FIFA.com: Goal of the Tournament
  6. ↑ ussoccer.com: NWSL Announces Allocation of 55 National Team Players to Eight Clubs ( Memento from March 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ ussoccer.com: "Heather O'Reilly Announces Retirement from International Soccer"
personal data
SURNAME O'Reilly, Heather
ALTERNATIVE NAMES O'Reilly, Heather Ann (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American national soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd January 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH New Brunswick , New Jersey