Karina LeBlanc

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Karina LeBlanc
Karina LeBlanc (cropped) .jpg
LeBlanc in the Thorns jersey (2013)
Personnel
Surname Karina Chenelle LeBlanc
birthday March 30, 1980
place of birth AtlantaUnited States
position goalkeeper
Juniors
Years station
1997-2000 Nebraska Cornhuskers
Women
Years station Games (goals) 1
2001-2004 Boston Breakers 2 (0)
2004 Montreal Xtreme 1 (0)
2005-2006 New Jersey Wildcats 18 (0)
2009 Los Angeles Sol 19 (0)
2010 Philadelphia Independence 2 (0)
2010 Chicago Red Stars
2013-2014 Portland Thorns FC 21 (0)
2014-2015 Chicago Red Stars 29 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1998-2015 Canada 110 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Karina Chenelle LeBlanc (born March 30, 1980 in Atlanta , United States ) is a former Canadian soccer goalkeeper . She last played for the Chicago Red Stars from 2014 to 2015 and for the Canadian national team from 1998 to 2015 . She is Canada's top goalkeeper. Her father, a bank manager, was born in Dominica and her mother in Jamaica .

origin

LeBlanc was born in Atlanta, where her parents fled because of warnings about a major hurricane. 6 months after her birth, the family moved back to Dominica, where the daughter grew up for 8 years. The family then settled in Maple Ridge , British Columbia , where LeBlanc began playing soccer at the age of twelve.

Career

LeBlanc played from 1997 with the Nebraska Cornhuskers , the team of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln . From 2001, she played for the Boston Breakers , out briefly for only 2004 in the W-League playing Montreal Xtreme and moved a year later to the New Jersey Wildcats , which also played in the W-League. In 2009 she made the leap into Women's Professional Soccer and played for the Los Angeles Sol . In 2010 she guarded the gate of the Philadelphia Independence and briefly for the Chicago Red Stars .

LeBlanc made her first international A match at the age of 18 on July 21, 1998 in a 4-0 draw against China when she was substituted on at 3-0 in the second half. With the Canadian national football team , she finished fourth in her first tournament, the CONCACAF Women's Gold Cup 2000 . In 2002 she reached the final, in which she lost 2-1 to the USA by golden goal . In 1999 and 2003 she took part in the World Cup finals as a substitute goalkeeper, but only played in the first game in 2003 , which she lost 4-1 to Germany. She was also a substitute goalkeeper in the team at the 2004 Olympic Games and the 2007 World Cup , but was again not used, in 2007 due to an injury shortly before the start of the tournament. In 2008 it was only enough for one mission. In the quarterfinals she lost 1: 2 nV against the USA, where she came on in the 19th minute for the injured Erin McLeod . Her greatest achievement is winning the 2010 CONCACAF Women's Gold Cup , with which Canada qualified for the 2011 World Cup. She remained clean in four games. It was not used in the first two World Cup games, only in the last game against Nigeria, which is insignificant for the course of the tournament. The Canadians lost this game too.

On March 24, 2012, she made her 100th international match in the friendly against Brazil .

She was also nominated for the 2012 Olympic Games . But it was only used in the second game against South Africa. She was often used in alternation with the second goalkeeper Erin McLeod , who has also played 110 caps so far. Canada was the only team with two goalkeepers who played more than 100 international matches. At the age of 34, she was most recently the oldest player in the current Canadian squad.

In the 2013 season she played in the newly founded National Women's Soccer League , the highest American professional league in women's football, for Portland Thorns FC and won the championship at the end of the season. In January 2014, she moved to league rivals Chicago Red Stars .

The following year she was appointed as a substitute goalkeeper in the squad for the World Cup in her own country , but was not used. After the World Cup, she resigned from the national team and finally ended her career at the end of the NWSL season in September 2015.

successes

Web links

Commons : Karina LeBlanc  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. LeBlanc makes her 100th appearance for Canada
  2. FIFA.com Squad Canada
  3. Karina LeBlanc in the database of FIFA (English)
  4. ussoccer.com: NWSL Announces Allocation of 55 National Team Players to Eight Clubs ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ussoccer.com