Lucy bronze
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.jpg) Lucy bronze in the jersey of Olympique Lyon (2018)
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| Personnel | ||
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| Surname | Lucia Roberta Tough Bronze | |
| birthday | October 28, 1991 | |
| place of birth | Berwick-upon-Tweed , England | |
| size | 171 cm | |
| position | Defense | |
| Juniors | ||
| Years | station | |
| Sunderland WFC | ||
| 2009-2010 | North Carolina Tar Heels | |
| Women | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| -2010 | Sunderland WFC | 3 (0) |
| 2010–2012 | Everton LFC | 17 (2) |
| 2013-2014 | Liverpool LFC | 28 (3) |
| 2014-2017 | Manchester City WFC | 34 (5) |
| 2017-2020 | Olympique Lyon | 50 (3) |
| 2020– | Manchester City WFC | 3 (0) |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) 2 |
| 2008 | England U17 | 6 (0) |
| 2009-2010 | England U-19 | 20 (0) |
| 2010 | England U-20 | 3 (0) |
| 2010-2013 | England U-23 | 5 (0) |
| 2013– | England | 75 (8) |
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1 Only league games are given. Status: October 18, 2020 2 As of November 12, 2019 |
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Lucia Roberta "Lucy" Tough Bronze (born October 28, 1991 in Berwick-upon-Tweed ) is an English soccer player who has been playing for Manchester City WFC again since 2020 . In the meantime, she played for Olympique Lyon for three years and won the UEFA Women's Champions League three times and the French double with the club . Since 2013 she has also been an English national player . In 2020 she was voted FIFA World Player of the Year .
Career
society
Bronze began her career at Sunderland WFC and reached the final of the FA Women's Cup 2009, which was lost 2-1 to Arsenal LFC . As the winner of the Northern Division in 2009, the team was promoted to the National Division of the FA Women's Premier League for the 2009/10 season . In 2009, she briefly switched to study at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and ran the North Carolina Tar Heels for their college teamon. After returning to England, she joined the women's team at Everton FC in 2010. Everton was runner-up in the 2009/10 FA Women's Premier League, qualifying for the 2010/11 UEFA Women's Champions League qualifying round. Bronze was only used in the six games of the final round. The end came in the quarter-finals with two defeats against the German runner-up FCR 2001 Duisburg . In the FA Women's Super League inaugural seasons and 2012 , Everton finished third and missed the Champions League.
After two years she moved on to local rivals Liverpool LFC . With Liverpool, she won the English championship twice in a row in 2013 and 2014 and qualified for the 2014/15 UEFA Women's Champions League . Here Liverpool failed in the sixteenth finals after a 2-1 home win by a 0-3 away defeat at the Swedish championship third Linköpings FC .
Bronze joined the Manchester City women for the 2015 season . With Manchester City she became English champion again in 2016 and won the WSL Cup. In the UEFA Women's Champions League 2016/17 she contested eight games and scored three goals. In the semi-final against Olympique Lyon , the end came after a 3-1 home defeat and a 1-0 away win.
After the runner-up in 2017 and winning the FA Women's Cup, she moved to Olympique Lyon, where she became French champion in two seasons and won the Coupe de France féminine in 2019 . With Lyon, she also won the 2017/18 UEFA Women's Champions League and secured the final with the only goal in the semifinals against her ex-club Manchester City.
In July 2018, she and the team took part in the Women's International Champions Cup , which was played for the first time , where she also met her ex-club in the semifinals and won 3-0. The final was then lost 1-0 to North Carolina Courage .
In the 2018/19 UEFA Women's Champions League , the title was defended with a 4-1 final win against Spanish runners-up FC Barcelona . Bronze was used in all nine games over the entire season and scored one goal in a 9-0 win against Ajax Amsterdam . The European title was also defended in 2019/20 and the double was won. She then returned to Manchester, where she received a two-year contract.
National team
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Bronze took part with the English U-19s in the U-19 European Football Championships in 2009 and 2010 , whereby after the 2009 triumph in Belarus the second place was achieved in the following tournament. At the U-20 World Cup in 2010 , she was used in all three England games. On June 26, 2013 bronze debuted against Japan in the English senior team .
Bronze was part of the English squad at the 2015 World Cup in Canada . She was in the starting line-up in six games and always played until the end of the game. Only in the third group game against Colombia she was not used. In the round of 16 against Norway she scored the 2-1 winner, which was the first time England won a knockout game at the World Cup. This goal became a candidate for the “Goal of the Tournament”. She also scored the second goal for England in the quarter-finals against hosts Canada . Canada came up again to 1: 2, but could not score another goal, so England were in the semi-finals for the first time. In the semifinals against defending champion Japan, her teammate Laura Bassett defeatedin the second minute of stoppage time in a defensive attempt the decisive own goal to make the final score 1: 2. England missed a possible extension and the final. In the game for third place, she and her team won their first win against Germany .
In qualifying for the 2017 European Championship , she made five appearances in which she helped not to concede a goal. At the EM she was used in two group and two knockout games. Due to a 3-0 defeat in the semi-finals against the hosts , the English missed the final.
In qualifying for the 2019 World Cup , she was the only English woman to play all eight games. She scored one goal each in the 6-0 victories against Kazakhstan and Russia . With seven wins and one draw, the English women qualified as group winners for the World Cup.
At the end of February / beginning of March 2019, she was part of the squad that won the SheBelieves Cup for the first time and played the full distance in each of the three games. She was nominated for the 2019 World Cup and played her second World Cup. At the World Cup, she was used in all seven games of the English team, where they did not miss a minute and scored the last goal in the 3-0 win against Norway in the quarter-finals. She was named "Player of the Game" in the game. In the end, fourth place jumped out for her team and for her the “Silver Ball” as the second best player in the tournament .
successes
National team
Club successes
- English Champion : 2013, 2014 (Liverpool FC), 2016 (Manchester City)
- FA WSL Cup Winner : 2017 (Manchester City)
- FA Women's Cup Winner : 2017 (Manchester City)
- French champion : 2018, 2019, 2020 (Olympique Lyon)
- UEFA Women's Champions League winner : 2018 , 2019 , 2020 (Lyon)
- Coupe de France féminine winner : 2019, 2020 (Lyon)
Awards
- 2019: "Silver Ball" as the second best player in the 2019 World Cup
- 2019: Europe's player of the year
- 2020: FIFA World Player of the Year
Web links
- Lucy Bronze on the FA website
- Profile on the website of Olympique Lyon
- Lucy Bronze in the Soccerdonna.de database
- Match statistics at women.soccerway.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ MCWFC sign Lucy Bronze , mcfc.co.uk (English). Retrieved January 8, 2015.
- ↑ Olympique Lyonnais vs. Manchester City 1-0
- ↑ North Carolina Courage vs. Olympique Lyonnais 1-0
- ↑ mancity.com: Lucy Bronze
- ↑ fifa.com: "Goal of the tournament"
- ↑ thefa.com: England squad named for 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Bronze, Lucy |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Tough bronze, Lucia Roberta |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 28, 1991 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berwick-upon-Tweed , England |