Joy Fawcett
Joy Lynn Fawcett born Biefeld (born February 8, 1968 in Inglewood , California ) is a former American football player .
Career
Together with Mia Hamm , Julie Foudy , Brandi Chastain and Kristine Lilly, Fawcett is one of the five US players who participated in the great successes of the US national team from the 1991 World Cup to the 2004 Olympic Games (two Olympic victories and two world championship titles each) ). She made a total of 241 internationals in which she scored 27 goals. The number was only set to 241 games in August 2016 after the US federation had come across two international matches held in January 1995 when reviewing its statistics, which had not been taken into account until then. In some statistics that have not yet been updated, it is still listed with 239 international matches. What is particularly noteworthy is the fact that in the course of her career she became a mother of three.
Fawcett, who plays in the position of defender , played her first international game in the 2-0 win on August 3, 1987 against China . She played for the University of California from 1987 to 1990 during her college years . In 1991 she became world champion for the first time with the national team. In 1996 she won the gold medal with the US national team at the Olympic Games in Atlanta . In February 1999, on the occasion of the group draw for the 1999 World Cup, she played with the national team against a FIFA World Cup. The game is not counted as an official international match. At the World Cup she was again world champion with the national team. Fawcett scored the important winning goal against Germany in the quarter-finals . In 2001 she was one of the founders and co-owners of WUSA . Until then, she had only been able to play in amateur teams outside of the national team after college. At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, she and her team won the second Olympic gold medal.
At the Fan Celebration Tour , a series with ten friendly matches, she ended her career together with Hamm and Foudy. Due to an operation, however, she was unable to participate in the games, so the Athens final was her last international match.
Success with the national team
- Gold medal at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta
- Silver medal at the Olympic Games in Sydney 2000
- Gold medal at the 2004 Athens Olympics
- World champion at the 1991 World Cup in China
- 3rd place at the 1995 World Cup in Sweden
- World Champion at the 1999 World Championships in the USA
- 3rd place at the World Championships in the USA in 2003
Awards
- 2013: Election to the All-Time Women's National Team Best XI
Individual evidence
- ↑ ussoccer.com: Case of the Missing Caps
- ↑ FIFA Hunderterklub (as of January 7, 2011, no further update thereafter)
- ↑ ussoccer.com: "FIFA World Stars Defeat US Women's National Team, 2-1, at 1999 Women's World Cup Final Draw"
- ↑ US Soccer Announces All-Time Women's National Team Best XI ( Memento of the original from January 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fawcett, Joy |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Joy Biefeld (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 8, 1968 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Inglewood |