Jessica McDonald

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Jessica McDonald
Jessica McDonald.jpg
McDonald in the Jersey of Melbourne Victory (2012)
Personnel
Surname Jessica Marie McDonald
birthday February 28, 1988
place of birth Phoenix , Arizona ,  USA
size 183 cm
position Storm
Juniors
Years station
2000-2007 Sereno Soccer Club
2008-2009 North Carolina Tar Heels
Women
Years station Games (goals) 1
2010 Chicago Red Stars 5 0(0)
2012-2013 Melbourne Victory 13 0(7)
2013 Chicago Red Stars 9 0(0)
2013 Seattle Reign FC 7 0(3)
2014 Portland Thorns FC 25 (11)
2014-2015 Herford SV 11 0(3)
2015 Houston Dash 20 0(7)
2016 Western New York Flash 21 (10)
2017– North Carolina Courage 49 (15)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
USA U-15
USA U-17
USA U-19
2007 USA U-20
2009 USA U-23 2 (0)
2016– United States 8 0(2)
1 Only league games are given.
As of April 28, 2019

2 As of June 16, 2019

Jessica Marie McDonald (born February 28, 1988 in Phoenix , Arizona ) is an American soccer player who has been under contract with the North Carolina Courage since the 2017 season . She was part of the national team that won the World Cup in 2019.

Career

societies

McDonald (left) next to Rebekah Stott (2012)

McDonald started her professional football career in the 2010 season in the WPS - Franchise of the Chicago Red Stars , for which they are also due to an injury, came only five missions. In the 2012/13 season she ran for the Australian W-League participant Melbourne Victory and scored seven goals in 13 games. She reached the Grand Final with the team, but lost it 1: 3 against Sydney FC .

McDonald was hired as a so-called free agent of the newly founded NWSL franchise of the Chicago Red Stars in early 2013 . She made her league debut on April 14, 2013 against Seattle Reign FC as a substitute at halftime. At the end of June of the same year, Chicago disbanded McDonald's contract, which subsequently joined league rivals from Seattle and immediately scored three goals in their first three appearances.

For the 2014 season, she moved to league rivals Portland Thorns FC . In August 2014 she moved to the newly promoted Herford SV in the German women's Bundesliga. Due to problems with her eligibility to play, she only played five Bundesliga games there until the winter break, in which, however, she scored three goals. She returned to the United States in April 2015 and signed with Houston Dash before moving on to the Western New York Flash franchise a year later . With the Flash, McDonald won the NWSL championship in the 2016 season. In the final against Washington Spirit, which was decided on penalties , she was one of the five missed shooters, but since only one teammate missed, her team won.

From the following season, their team appeared as North Carolina Courage . After the regular season, the team took first place in the table, but then lost in the final with 0: 1 against Portland Thorns FC . In 2018 the title could be won again, with a 3-0 revenge for the final defeat of the previous year and she scored the last two goals as “player of the game”. On July 30, 2018, she and her team won the Women's International Champions Cup, which was played for the first time, by beating Olympique Lyon 1-0 in the final . She scored the first goal in the 2-1 victory in the semifinals against Paris Saint-Germain .

National team

McDonald went through the US junior women's teams. With the U-20 team she took part in the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro , where she won the silver medal. In the final, they lost 5-0 to the Brazilian women's national soccer team . In 2009, McDonald was a member of the United States' U-23 squad. When she made her international debut on November 10, 2016, she was already 28 years old. In the 8-1 in the friendly against Romania , she was substituted on in the second half when the score was 5-1. She scored her first international goal on November 8, 2018 in her second international match and first starting line-up in the 1-0 win against Portugal in Lisbon , the 500th victory according to the US association. In the last game of the year she made a brief appearance against Scotland . In the first seven games of the World Cup year, she made four more appearances and 68 minutes of play. On May 1, 2019, she was nominated as a field player with the fewest international matches for the 2019 World Cup . At the World Cup, she only had a 45-minute appearance in the second group game against Chile, when most of the regular players were not used, and she was substituted on for Julie Ertz in the second half .

successes

Awards

Private

McDonald's older brother Brandon McDonald (* 1986) is also a professional soccer player.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jeff Kassouf: Leroux scores again as Breakers draw Reign 1-1 , equalizersoccer.com (English). Retrieved August 5, 2013.
  2. ↑ THORNS TRADE DANIELLE FOXHOVEN TO REIGN ( Memento from December 22, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), nwslsoccer.com (English). Retrieved December 5, 2013.
  3. ↑ Women Soccer, August 28, 2014
  4. ↑ North Carolina Courage vs. Olympique Lyonnais 1-0
  5. ↑ North Carolina Courage vs. PSG 2 - 1st
  6. ↑ WNT Cruises to 8-1 Win vs. Romania in San Jose , ussoccer.com (English). Retrieved November 11, 2016.
  7. ↑ WNT Earns 500th Win in Team History
  8. ↑ ussoccer.com: Meet the USA's 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup Team

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personal data
SURNAME McDonald, Jessica
ALTERNATIVE NAMES McDonald, Jessica Marie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH Phoenix , Arizona , United States