Janine Beckie

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Janine Beckie
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Beckie (2016)
Personnel
Surname Janine Elizabeth Beckie
birthday August 20, 1994
place of birth Littleton , Colorado ,  USA
size 173 cm
position Striker
Juniors
Years station
1998-200? Real Colorado
2009–2012 Valor Christian High School
2012-2015 Texas Tech Red Raiders
Women
Years station Games (goals) 1
2013 Seattle Sounders Women 7 0(1)
2014-2015 Colorado Rush 11 0(6)
2016-2017 Houston Dash 38 0(5)
2018 Sky Blue FC 15 0(0)
2018– Manchester City 23 0(1)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
2011–2012 USA U-18
2013 USA U-20
2014–? Canada U-20 4 0(2)
2015 Canada U-23 5 0(2)
2014– Canada 60 (25)
1 Only league games are given.
Status: February 7, 2020

2 As of June 24, 2019

Janine Elizabeth Beckie (born August 20, 1994 in Littleton , Colorado , United States ) is an American- Canadian soccer player on the position of a striker . The Canadian national soccer player has played for Manchester City since 2018 .

Youth and adult areas

Career start and high school

Janine Beckie was born in 1994 in Littleton, Colorado, a suburb of Denver and the site of the Columbine High School rampage in 1999, as the youngest child of Gary and Sheila Beckie (née Brennan). The sports-loving family, father Gary, who died in 2001 at the age of 41, was active as a basketball player at the University of Saskatchewan and mother Sheila, who also played for the college basketball team at the University of Saskatchewan and as a young Canadian national player, includes Alysha (* 1987 ), Drew (* 1990) and Jenelle Beckie (* 1993) three other children, all of whom gained a foothold in football at college level. At the age of four, Janine Beckie played for the Real Colorado youth football program in her hometown of Highlands Ranch , where she also attended Valor Christian High School , an independent Christian private school.

During her childhood and youth, she grew up playing soccer, gymnastics, basketball and lacrosse, but in later years she concentrated more on her soccer career. As a four-time letterman (2009 to 2012), she was very successful as a footballer during her high school years; so she was among other things in the years 2009 and 2010 with the girls team high school vice state champion of Colorado. In addition, she was brought into the All Pioneer League team during this time and was champion in 2010 and runner-up in Region IV in 2011 . In the last year she was also elected to the First Team All-Colorado and the First Team All-Conference . Like her parents, she was active as a basketball player and, in addition to this sport, also practiced athletics in high school. In the 4-by-100-meter and the 4-by-400-meter relay , she was once national champion of Colorado, she was also fifth in the 100-meter hurdles and runner-up in the 300-meter hurdles . She helped her team to second place in the team classification of the 2011 athletics state meeting and made it into the all-state selection for basketball the following year . That year she was also named Gatorade Colorado Player of the Year , the first such award for Valor Christian High School. Also during her high school years, she was a member of the ECNL team that toured Europe in 2011 as well scorer of Real Colorado in the regional U-16 Championship.

College football

After starting her studies with the main course in media and communication studies at Texas Tech, she also joined the sports department there, the Red Raiders , which is part of the Big 12 Conference . In her first year Janine Beckie was used in all 23 championship games of her team, where she played 22 times from the start, scored 14 goals and contributed another five assists. Furthermore, she was able to celebrate numerous other successes in her freshman year; Among them, she was the leader in six different categories of the university's internal ranking and was also the leader of the Big 12 with 122 shots, 5.30 shots per game, 33 scorer points and 1.43 scorer points per game. In other categories she led the list tied with others Players and also received various individual honors, including being elected to the NSCAA All-America Second Team and the NSCAA All-Central Region First Team . Furthermore, she was multiple player of the week and at the end of the season even Big 12 Rookie of the Year as well as in the All-Big 12 First Team and the Big 12 All-Tournament Team . Further individual awards followed during her first year. In the following sophomore year, she continued to be successful as a goal-scoring regular, with twelve goals and four assists in 22 games in which she always played from the start. As in the previous year, it remained one of the best striker of the country, the elections to the NSCAA All-Central Region First Team and the All-Big 12 First Team show. In 2014, Beckie was able to improve her performance by another bit, again playing in 22 games from the start and contributing 17 hits and four assists to the Red Raiders . In her senior year, the trained striker is also part of the women's college team, which will start the new season in the Big 12 in August 2015. In 2013, Janine Beckie gained her first experience in the second division of US and Canadian women's football during the Texas Tech off-season when she was accepted into the Seattle Sounders Women with Jaelene Hinkle and Morgan Johnson . From 2014 to 2015 she ran for the W-League participant Colorado Rush .

On January 15, 2016, she was committed to eighth position in the Houston Dash franchise in the first round of the NWSL college draft . For the 2018 season she moved to Sky Blue FC together with her teammate Carli Lloyd . After the end of the season she moved to England for Manchester City , with whom she won the FA Women's Cup and WSL Cup in her first season .

National team career

Already collected during their high school career Beckie first international experience, being first time in 2011 the Colorado ODP Team Regional was brought and from that time until 2012, the US U-18 juniors was in the squad. After she was enrolled at Texas Tech University, Beckie, who is eligible to play for both the US and the Canadian women's national team, was called up to training camps for the US U-20 women in February and April 2013. After she was already preparing for participation with the US women in the U-20 World Cup in Canada, she was brought into a national selection of the country of birth of her parents and siblings for the first time in 2014 by the Canadian Football Association .

With the Canadian U-20 juniors she finally took part in the World Cup, where she was used in all four games of her team and with two goals was also the Canadians' top goalscorer. The technical study group of the U-20 World Cup described her as a "versatile player, fast and agile, with good dribbling skills and excellent movements, even away from possession". With the team she was eliminated in the quarter-finals with 0: 2 against the eventual world champions, the German U-20 women . After playing for the U-20 team in August 2014, she was called up for the first time for Canada's senior national team three months later. On November 26, 2014, she finally made her debut in a friendly against Sweden , when she came on the pitch at halftime for long-time team player Brittany Baxter and in the 75th minute, together with Selenia Iacchelli, assisted the 1-1 final score for record player Christine Sinclair did. In her second international match, a 2-1 win over South Korea at the 2015 BaoAn Cup in Shenzhen , Beckie, who was only used from the second half, scored the 1-1 equalizer in minute 51.

After it was not used in the game against Mexico , it was against China for the first time from the start, but did not play through and won the tournament on Chinese soil with the team after three wins. Beckie made two other short appearances in a group game and later in the final of the Cyprus Cup in 2015 , in which the Canadians were defeated by 0: 1 against the English women. Although her assignments in preparation for the World Cup, she was not part of the hostesses' squad at the 2015 Women's World Cup in Canada. After the 2015 World Cup, she took part with the U-23 team in the 2015 Pan American Games , which also took place in her home country and in which the Canadians took fourth place. In December 2015 she then took part with the senior team in the four -nation tournament in Brazil , in which Canada finished second and scored two goals, among others. a. the interim 1-0 for Canada in the 1-3 final defeat against Brazil. She was also on the roster for the 2016 Summer Olympics qualifier , where Canada qualified for the Olympics. She was used in two group games and scored two goals.

Shortly thereafter, she and the team won the Algarve Cup 2016 , where they contributed a goal to the 2-1 victory in the final against Brazil . Both teams also met in the game for the bronze medal at the 2016 Olympic Games and the Canadians were able to prevail again. Beckie had been used in two group games and the games of the knockout round and had scored three goals. Together with her captain Christine Sinclair she was the second best goalscorer of the tournament.

With two goals at the CONCACAF Women's Gold Cup 2018 , she contributed to the fact that the Canadians could qualify for the 2019 World Cup . On May 25, 2019, she was nominated for the 2019 World Cup . She was used in the four games of the Canadians, but was eliminated with her team in the round of 16 against the later third Sweden . She could not convert a penalty to a possible 1: 1 equalization.

successes

In the national team

societies

Web links

Commons : Janine Beckie  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Seattle Sounders Women - 2013 Statistics ( Memento July 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), wleaguesoccer.com (English). Retrieved June 7, 2015.
  2. ↑ Colorado Rush - 2014 ( memento from January 20, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), 2015 ( memento from May 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Statistics, wleaguesoccer.com (English). Retrieved June 7, 2015.
  3. ^ In Memory - Gary Beckie , accessed June 6, 2015
  4. ↑ Sheila Beckie / Sheila Brennan (English), accessed June 6, 2015
  5. ↑ Sounders Women Sign Texas Tech Talent - Hinkle, Beckie, & Johnson ( Memento from June 6, 2015 in the web archive archive.today ), accessed on June 6, 2015
  6. ↑ 2015 Rush W-League Team Announced , accessed on June 22, 2015
  7. ↑ 2016 NWSL COLLEGE DRAFT RESULTS ( Memento from January 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), nwslsoccer.com (English). Retrieved January 15, 2016.
  8. ↑ U20WWC: Our one-on-one interview with Canadian striker Janine Beckie ( Memento of March 30, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (English), accessed on June 6, 2015
  9. ↑ Canada vs Sweden - 2014-11-26 (English), accessed June 6, 2015
  10. ↑ Canada vs Korea Republic - 2015-01-11 (English), accessed June 6, 2015
  11. ↑ Canada vs China PR - 2015-01-15 (English), accessed June 6, 2015
  12. ↑ Canada vs Brazil - 2015-12-20
  13. ↑ canadasoccer.com: "Together We Rise: Canada Soccer announces squad for the FIFA Women's World Cup France 2019"
personal data
SURNAME Beckie, Janine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Beckie, Janine Elizabeth (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American-Canadian female soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH August 20, 1994
PLACE OF BIRTH Littleton , Colorado , United States