Kristine Lilly
| Kristine Lilly | ||
 Kristine Lilly in the Boston Breakers (2010)
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| Personnel | ||
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| Surname | Kristine Marie Lilly Heavey | |
| birthday | July 22, 1971 | |
| place of birth | New York City , USA | |
| size | 163 cm | |
| position | Midfielder | |
| Juniors | ||
| Years | station | |
| 1989-1992 | UNC | |
| Women | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 1994 | Tyresö FF | |
| 1995 | Washington Warthogs | |
| 1998 | Delaware geniuses | 4 (5) |
| 2001-2003 | Boston Breakers (WUSA) | 59 (14) |
| 2005 | KIF Örebro | 19 (8) |
| 2009-2010 | Boston Breakers | 20 (3) |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| 1987-2010 | United States | 354 (130) |
| Stations as a trainer | ||
| Years | station | |
| 2013 | Boston Breakers (Assistant Trainer) | |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Kristine Marie Lilly Heavey (* 22. July 1971 in New York City as Kristine Marie Lilly ) is a former American football player . With 354 international matches she is the world record holder for soccer players of both sexes and with 30 matches she is the record player in the World Cup ; where it was used in all games of the USA at the first five World Cups.
life and career
Together with Mia Hamm , Joy Fawcett , Julie Foudy and Brandi Chastain, Lilly 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) . With 354 international matches , she holds the world record for football players of both sexes. She scored 130 goals. At the end of her career, she was in second place among the players with the most international goals (currently 4th place).
Lilly is a left-footed, offensive and dangerous midfielder. She began her international playing career in 1987 as a 16-year-old student. From 1989 to 1992 she played for the University of North Carolina . In 1991 she was a member of the victorious US national team at the World Cup in China.
As usual in the USA, she was not continuously employed by a professional team in the following years, especially since there was no permanent professional league for women in the USA. Especially in the preparation years for world championships and the Olympic Games, Lilly often only played for the US association. In 1994 she played one season in Sweden with Tyresö FC. In 1996 she won the gold medal with the US team in Atlanta at the Olympic Games , the first ever in women's football. 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. In 1999 she won her second world championship with the USA in her own country . In 2001 she was one of the co-founders of WUSA , the American women's soccer professional league. She played for the Boston Breakers throughout the 3 years that WUSA existed . In 2004, after the end of the WUSA, the US players devoted themselves exclusively to preparing for the Olympic Games for Athens. There the USA won their second gold medal, Lilly scored the leading goals in the quarter-finals and in the semi-finals. In 2005 she played another year in Sweden in view of the lack of employment opportunities in the USA, this time at KIF Örebro DFF . Following the resignation of Foudy she was captain of the national team, and later turn of Christie Rampone replaced.
In April 2007 Lilly was nominated for the game of the “FIFA Women's World Stars” against the Chinese women's national soccer team on the occasion of the group draw for the 2007 World Cup and came on as a substitute for the second half.
Lilly's exceptional importance for the US women's national soccer team can be seen in other figures: She has (as of December 31, 2005) participated in 301 of 348 international matches for the US team (331 would have been possible because 15 international matches were to be played their first use). On August 6, 1995, she made her 100th international match as the first US player and on April 8, 2000 against Canada as the first player, her 200th game . After her, nineteen more players reached the 200-game mark. On October 16, 2005, she broke another "sound barrier" as the first player with the 300th international match of her career. Besides her only Christie Pearce got more than 300 internationals.
Lilly is both the youngest and the oldest player to score for the United States. She scored her first international goal in her second game at the age of 16 on August 13, 1987 in a 1-1 draw against China, her last and 130th goal at the age of almost 39 on May 22, 2010 in a 4-0 win against Germany .
Lilly was unable to take part in the 2008 Olympic Games ; she gave birth to her first daughter on July 22, 2008 (she had a second daughter on September 2, 2011). She has been married since October 20, 2006 to firefighter David Heavey, who himself was a successful college-level athlete in ice hockey and golf . On December 13, 2008, she made her comeback in the national team. After the game against China on December 17, 2008 (1-0), she made a longer international break, but was used again on March 28, 2010 in the game against Mexico. On October 2, 2010, she made her 350th international match against China. After four more games, she announced the end of her career in early January 2011. She last played on November 5, 2010 against Mexico. With 354 internationals, she has played almost twice as many games as the male record holder Ahmed Hassan , who counted 184 games. The number was only set to 354 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 352 international matches.
In the late stages of the 2013 season , Lilly worked for the Boston Breakers' NWSL franchise with Tom Durkin as assistant coach to player-coach Cat Whitehill .
successes
College and club team
- Four-time college champion with the UNC 1989–1992
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
- 3rd place at the World Championships in China 2007
Personal achievements
- Winner of the Hermann Trophy (College Player of the Year) 1991
- Triple US Player of the Year (1993, 2005 and 2006)
- 2nd place in the 2006 FIFA World Player of the Year election
- 2007: Election to the World Cup All-Star Team
- 2013: Election to the All-Time Women's National Team Best XI
Records
- Most international matches: 354
- Most minutes played in international matches: 28,700
- Most starting eleven: 332 (more than any other player in total international matches), of which 62 in a row (US record)
- Most wins: 280
- Most World Cup games: 30 (8 goals)
- Most wins in World Cup games: 25
- Most games in the CONCACAF World Cup qualification (Women's Gold Cup 1991, 1994, 2002, 2006, 2010): 17
- Second most assists: 106 (only Mia Hamm has a higher number of 145)
- Fourth most international goals: 130 (only Abby Wambach / 184 and Mia Hamm / 158 have scored more goals for the US team, Christine Sinclair / 181 for Canada)
Web links
- Official website of Kristine Lilly
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d ussoccer.com: Case of the Missing Caps
- ↑ ussoccer.com: "FIFA World Stars Defeat US Women's National Team, 2-1, at 1999 Women's World Cup Final Draw"
- ↑ Match Report FIFA Women's World Stars - China PR 2: 3 (2: 2)
- ↑ Kristine Lilly: All 352 Caps (website no longer available) ( Memento of the original from January 10, 2011 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.
- ↑ fifa.com: "Kristine Lilly:" It was about time ""
- ↑ FIFA Hunderterklub (as of January 7, 2011, no further update thereafter)
- ↑ Dan Lauletta: The Lowdown: Breakers go another direction , equalizersoccer.com (English). Retrieved December 30, 2013.
- ↑ US Soccer Announces All-Time Women's National Team Best XI (website no longer available) ( 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.
| predecessor | Office | successor |
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Carin Jennings-Gabarra Abby Wambach |
Player of the year in the USA 1993 2005, 2006 |
Mia Hamm Abby Wambach |
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Lilly, Kristine |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lilly Heavey, Kristine Marie (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 22, 1971 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City , New York, United States |