Lorrie Fair

Lorrie Fair
Lorrie Fair, 2011
Personnel
Surname	Lorraine Ming Fair
birthday	5th August 1978
place of birth	Los Altos , California ,  USA
size	160 cm
position	midfield
Juniors
Years	station
1996-1999	North Carolina Tar Heels
Women
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2001-2003	Philadelphia Charge	53 (1)
2005	Olympique Lyon	11 (0)
2008	Chelsea ladies
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1996-2005	United States	120 (7)
1 Only league games are given.

Lorraine Ming "Lorrie" Fair (born August 5, 1978 in Los Altos , California ) is a former American soccer player who played for the women's national soccer team of the United States from 1996 to 2005 and was world champion in 1999. Her twin sister Veronica "Ronnie" Fair was also a soccer player and when they played together against England on May 9, 1997 , it was the first time that two sisters played together for the US national team. Two days later they came together again - again against England. Ronnie only came to one more international match, but Lorrie was not used.

Career

Training and clubs

Lorrie played with Ronnie on the Los Altos High School's Female Soccer Team. While Ronnie moved to Stanford University after high school , Lorrie attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and played there from 1996 to 1999 for the "North Carolina Tar Heels" with which she won the NCAA Women's Soccer Championship in 1996, 1997 and 1999 won. From 2001 to 2003 she played in the Women's United Soccer Association for Philadelphia Charge , with whom she reached the play-offs in 2001 and 2002, but always failed in the semifinals. In 2003 they were the last of the league round. In 2005 she played for Olympique Lyon in the French Division 1 Féminine . With Lyon she was third in the championship and reached the final of the French Women's Cup in May 2005 together with national team goalkeeper Hope Solo , but lost it on penalties against Juvisy FCF , where she was one of the shooters who could convert the penalty. In 2008 she played in England for the Chelsea Ladies in the FA Women's Premier League .

National team

In 1994 she was nominated for the first time for the U-20 team , with which she participated in the 1995 Nordic Cup . On February 4, 1996 Lorrie made her international debut for the US national team at the age of 17 in a 2-1 draw against world champions Norway . She was then used in the next six games, but came on five times. For the first women's Olympic soccer tournament at the 1996 Olympic Games , she was then only nominated as a reserve player, but refused. It was not until late February / early March 1997 that she was used again in three games in Australia against the Australians . After further games between April and June with winning the US Cup in 1997, she was not used in the second half of the year, but took part with Ronnie for the U-20 team in the Nordic Cup in Denmark , which the USA won. At the first four-nation tournament in the People's Republic of China in 1998 , which the US girls won, she was substituted on three times and she also made four appearances at the subsequent Algarve Cup in 1998 , in which the USA was third. After four games without use, she was then used again regularly and scored her first international goal on May 30, 1998 in a 5-0 win against New Zealand after substitution. In July 1998 she helped win the 1998 Goodwill Games. Then there was a six-game break, in which Ronnie made her final appearance.

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 March 1999 she was used at the Algarve Cup 1999 , but lost the final against China . She was then also part of the squad for the 1999 World Cup . She was the youngest player on the team. Lorrie was only substituted in two group games as well as the quarter and semi-finals, but only came on in the group game against Nigeria in the second half.

After the semi-finals there was a break of 10 games, then she won the Algarve Cup 2000 with the US Girls . The year 2000 was also her most successful year, in which she appeared in 33 of 41 international matches, scored six goals and, after the Algarve Cup, also the US Cup 2000, the Pacific Cup, the CONCACAF Women's Gold Cup 2000 and the " Tournament for the 100th birthday of the DFB ”won. Only at the highlight of the season, the Olympic Games , it was "only" enough to win a silver medal. Lorrie hadn't missed a single minute of the game. Even after the Olympic Games, she initially remained a regular player, but then missed the Algarve Cup in 2001 , in which the USA only finished sixth. Then it was taken into account again, also in the 2001 US Cup , which was canceled due to the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 .

After it was only used in half of the games in 2001, it was used in 18 of 19 games in 2002, but was mostly substituted or substituted. In that year she won the four-nation tournament in 2002 , the US Cup in 2002 and the CONCACAF Women's Gold Cup in 2002 and made her 100th international match on September 8, 2002 against Scotland as the second youngest US player .

In 2003 she was used for winning the four-nation tournament in 2003 - although she had to be replaced eight minutes after being substituted on due to an injury in the last game against Germany - and the 2003 Algarve Cup, and she was used for the 2003 World Cup but not taken into account. Although she was nominated for the 2004 Olympic Games , she was never used. It was not used again until March 2005 when it won the Algarve Cup in 2005 . She made her 120th and last international match on July 24, 2005 against Iceland . The next game against Australia she sat on the bench and she was nominated for the last game in 2005 against Mexico.

successes

• World Champion 1999
• Olympic champion 2004 (without commitment)
• CONCACAF Women's Championship - winner 2000, 2002
• Algarve Cup winner 2000, 2003, 2005
• Olympic silver medal 2000

Awards

• 1999: Chevrolet Youth Female Athlete of the Year

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ussoccer.com: "US Under-17 WNT Arrive in New Zealand for World Cup"
2. ↑ ussoccer.com: "US Soccer Wire: September 26, 2005" ( Memento of the original from May 8, 2016 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. 
3. ↑ ussoccer.com: "US Soccer Wire: May 16, 2005" ( Memento of the original from April 21, 2016 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. 
4. ↑ bbc.co: "Fair coup as Chelsea sign US star"
5. ↑ socceramerica.com: "US Women: Wilson survives final cut"
6. ↑ ussoccer.com: "FIFA World Stars Defeat US Women's National Team, 2-1, at 1999 Women's World Cup Final Draw"
7. ↑ ussoccer.com: "DiCicco names USA Roster to Face FIFA World Stars at 1999 Women's World Cup Final Draw on Feb. 14 in San Jose, Calif."
8. ↑ ussoccer.com: “DiCicco Announces 1999 US Women's World Cup Team; Six Players wants Appear in their Third World Cup Tournament "
9. ↑ DFB Women Centenary Tournament 2000 (Germany)
10. ↑ ussoccer.com: "US Women Take Sixth Trophy of 2000 with 1-0 Victory Over Germany; 57th Minute Goal by Julie Foudy Gives USA Title of DFB Jubilee Tourney "
11. ↑ ussoccer.com: "Golden Goal Gives Norway 3-2 Win, Olympic Gold"
12. ↑ ussoccer.com: "Heinrichs Names 18 Players to Face Scotland on Sunday, Live on ESPN"
13. ↑ ussoccer.com: "US Women Win Four Nations Tournament in China with 1-0 Win Over Germany"
14. ↑ Athens 2004 Olympic Football Tournaments - Women - Teams - USA
15. ↑ ussoccer.com: "US WNT 100 Cap History"
16. ↑ ussoccer.com: "US Women Battle Australia to a Scoreless Draw"
17. ↑ ussoccer.com: "Ryan Announces Training Camp Roster for Oct. 23 match vs. Mexico In Charleston, SC "
18. ↑ ussoccer.com : " Kasey Keller and Michelle Akers Crowned US Soccer's 1999 Chevrolet Athletes of the Year"

Web links

• Lorrie Fair in the database of weltfussball.de
• Profile on the archived website of WUSA ( Memento from May 7, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
• 2015 WNT Media Guide