Hope Powell

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Hope Powell
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Personnel
Surname Hope Powell
birthday December 8, 1966
place of birth Lewisham ,  England
position midfield
Women
Years station Games (goals) 1
1978-1987 Millwall Lionesses
1987-1989 Friends of Fulham
1989-1991 Millwall Lionesses
1991-1994 Bromley Borough
1994-1998 Croydon
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1983-1998 England 66 (35)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1998-2013 England
2012 Team GB
2017– Brighton & Hove Albion
1 Only league games are given.

Hope Powell , CBE (born December 8, 1966 in Lewisham ) is a former English soccer player and current coach . From 1978 to 1998 she was active as a player in twenty years for three London clubs from Millwall , Fulham and Croydon or Bromley and reached with these four times the final of the FA Women's Cup , which she won twice in addition to an English championship . Powell became the all-time high scorer for the Millwall Lionesses. From 1983 she also played for the national team , with which she took part in two European championships and one world championship , and in 1984 became vice European champion.

Powell immediately after her retirement from 1998 to 2013 coach of the English national team and led them to four European championships and two world championships. Her greatest success was the 2009 Vice European Championship . In 2012 she also looked after the British national team for the Olympic Games in London. Powell is a qualified A-license coach and became the first woman to receive the UEFA Pro license in 2003.

Career

As a player Powell made 66 games for England, mostly as a midfielder; she scored 35 goals. She made her debut at the age of 16 and was part of the English team for the 1995 FIFA Women's World Cup . She was also the vice-captain of her country. At club level, she played eleven years for the London club Millwall Lionesses , where she won the FA Women's Cup in 1991 ; in between she had been active for the Friends of Fulham for two years .

Although the Lionesses also for the first season of the FA Women's Premier League had qualified National Division, the winning team scattered after the triumph and instead Powell founded with some teammates the new-league Bromley Borough in the London suburb Bromley , with her in just three Years to the top class. In 1994 the club was relocated to Croydon and renamed before its first season in the Premier League through a cooperation with the London club Croydon FC . In 1996 she won the double as captain of Croydon, which later (after her career) would switch to Charlton Athletic , and won the championship and FA Women's Cup . Two years later, she ended her playing career in 1998.

Coaching career

Hope Powell was founded in 1998, the first full-time head coach and led England to the European Football Championship Women 2001 and the European Football Championship Women 2005 . She and her team qualified for the 2007 and 2011 World Cup finals, where they made it to the quarter-finals. Not only was she responsible for the English women's national football team , she also oversaw the entire set-up from the U-15 to the U-21, a coaching system and the FA's National Player Development Center at Loughborough University . At the 2012 Olympic Games in London , where the host country qualified automatically, she looked after Team GB , which consisted of English and Scottish players and was eliminated in the quarter-finals. After a disappointing performance of the team she supervised at the 2013 European Championship , Powell was released after 15 years on August 20, 2013 by the English Football Association . In total, she coached the English women's national team 162 times and is only surpassed by Leonardo Cuéllar , who coached the Mexican women's national team 173 times (as of February 15, 2014), and Sepp Herberger , who took on the German men's 167 times. National team supervised. There were also five games by the British women's national football team . (see also: List of national soccer coaches with at least 100 international matches )

Powell was awarded the OBE in 2002 and the CBE in 2010, and in 2003 she was inducted into the English Football Hall of Fame .

In April 2007, she and the German Tina Theune-Meyer supervised the “FIFA Women's World Stars” against the Chinese national soccer team for women on the occasion of the group draw for the 2007 World Cup .

successes

as a player

as a trainer

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hope Powell leaves FA
  2. ↑ Match Report FIFA Women's World Stars - China PR 2: 3 (2: 2)

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personal data
SURNAME Powell, Hope
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Lewisham