Kelley O'Hara

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Kelley O'Hara
Kelley Ohara Cleveland.jpg
O'Hara in the game against
Japan on June 5, 2016
Personnel
Surname Kelley Maureen O'Hara
birthday 4th August 1988
place of birth Fayetteville , Georgia ,  USA
size 165 cm
position Midfield / defense
Juniors
Years station
Peachtree City Lazers
Lightning Soccer Club
2002-2006 Starr's Mill High School
2006-2009 Stanford Cardinal
Women
Years station Games (goals) 1
2009 Pali blues 6 0(4)
2010 FC Gold Pride 18 0(6)
2011–2012 Boston Breakers 13 0(4)
2013-2017 Sky Blue FC 75 (15)
2018– Utah Royals FC 12 0(1)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
2004 USA U-16 (17)
2005 USA U-17 (14)
2006-2008 USA U-20 35 (24)
2007 USA U-21
2009 USA U-23 3 0(0)
2010– United States 131 0(2)
1 Only league games are given.
Status: end of season 2019

2 As of March 11, 2020

Kelley Maureen O'Hara (born August 4, 1988 in Fayetteville , Georgia ) is an American football player . She plays for Utah Royals FC and for the US national team . With this she won the world title in 2015 and 2019.

life and career

O'Hara started playing football in the Peachtree City Lazers U-10 team , moved to the Lightning Soccer Club after the U-12 , then returned to the Lazers U-17. After enrolling at Stanford University , she played for the Stanford Cardinal from 2006 to 2009 , where she a. a. received the MAC Hermann Trophy and was recorded as PAC 10 Player of the Year and NSCAA Collegiate Scholar Athlete of the Year. In 2010 she played for FC Gold Pride in Women's Professional Soccer and won the championship. Since the club was dissolved due to financial problems in November 2010, she moved to the Boston Breakers .

O'Hara in the FC Gold Pride dress

O'Hara played in several US youth teams and was part of the squad that won the 2006 CONCACAF U-20 Championship and, at the age of 18, was the second youngest player in the U-20 team and was fourth at the U-20 World Cup in Russia after losing on penalties in both the semi-finals and the third-place match . She was used in four games and scored two goals.

In 2007 she took part with the U-20 team in the Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro , where she scored four goals and reached the final with her team, which was played against the Brazilian A team , u. a. with Marta , with 0: 4 was lost.

In 2008 she took part in the CONCACAF U-20 Championship in 2008, in which she scored six goals in five games, three of them in a 9-0 win over the Cuba team. Although she made a significant contribution to qualifying for the World Cup and scored 12 goals in 10 games for the U-20 team, she was not nominated for the U-20 World Cup in Chile .

In December 2009 she received her first invitation to train with the senior national team. On March 28, 2010, she played her first A international match in a 3-0 win against Mexico .

At the Algarve Cup in March 2011 she played 45 minutes against the Finnish team , but was then not considered for the first World Cup test matches. After Lindsay Tarpley was injured in the game against Japan on May 14th, O'Hara moved up as the second youngest player and field player with the fewest A-internationals in the USA squad for the 2011 World Cup in Germany . She was substituted on in the last group game in the 73rd minute, but could no longer set positive accents. In the 87th minute, she missed the chance to equalize in front of the goal. It was their only use at the World Cup, which the US team finished second.

O'Hara in a US friendly in May 2015

O'Hara was in the squad for the Olympic football tournament in London , was used in all games over the full distance and in the final against Japan on August 9, 2012, Olympic champion with the team.

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 Sky Blue FC .

O'Hara was also named to the US squad for the 2015 World Cup . It was first used in the quarter-finals against China . In the semifinals against Germany she was substituted on in the 75th minute and scored the 2-0 final score nine minutes later with her first international goal, making her team the fourth time in the World Cup final. She was also substituted in in the final and became world champion for the first time by beating Japan 5-2.

She was also on the squad for the 2016 Summer Olympics qualifier , won by the United States, and played in the third group match against Puerto Rico - scoring her second international goal - as well as in the semifinals and finals.

O'Hara (front, 1st from left, No. 5) with the national team before the game against Japan on February 27, 2019

On September 15, 2017, she played her 100th international match in a friendly against New Zealand and led the team onto the field as captain. The New Zealanders Betsy Hassett and Annalie Longo also made their 100th international match - the only known game in which three players made their 100th international match. In 2018 she won the SheBelieves Cup 2018 and the CONCACAF Women's Gold Cup 2018 with the national team , but only made eight appearances due to an injury. On May 1st, she was nominated for the 2019 World Cup . At the World Cup she played six games as a right-back, and she was always in the starting line-up. She only sat on the bench in the second group game against Chile , when some of the regular players were not used. In the final, she had to be replaced in the second half due to an injury.

successes

Web links

Commons : Kelley O'Hara  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b player profile of Utah Royals FC
  2. ↑ Pali Blues - 2009 Statistics ( Memento of February 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), uslsoccer.com (English). Retrieved January 23, 2014.
  3. ↑ USA Defeats Mexico 3-0 in First Domestic Match of 2010 ( Memento from October 1, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Midfielder Kelley O'Hara Added to US Women's World Cup Roster ( Memento from June 4, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup roster. Archived from the original on May 14, 2011 ; accessed on August 26, 2014 (English).
  6. ↑ weltfussball.de: Live ticker USA - Sweden
  7. ↑ ussoccer.com: NWSL Announces Allocation of 55 National Team Players to Eight Clubs ( Memento from March 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ O'Hara Earns 100th Cap as WNT Downs New Zealand 3-1 in Denver Behind First Half Ertz Brace
  9. ↑ ussoccer.com: Meet the USA's 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup Team
personal data
SURNAME O'Hara, Kelley
ALTERNATIVE NAMES O'Hara, Kelley Maureen (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American national soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH 4th August 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH Fayetteville , Georgia